The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
Novel Conceits in Bags ard Belts Bags and Purses to Match the Costume Lingerie
 Bags Midsummer Fancy.

chains to match the mounting Chain purses, by the way, are coming In very strong again, and the leather handles are used only on shopping bags, vanity bags and purses for strictly practical wear. Mesh bags In silver and gold, while still in fair demand are by no means as popular as they once were since the arrival of the metal purse, that small accessory of silver or gold, plain or chased, which carries change and ones visiting cards and opens like a book
 Lingerie bags are charming summer novelties, extremely high class, but with in reach of all. At fancy work counters the stamped linen ready to be embroid- cred and made into one of these access sories Is to be had at q very reasonable price, and the made up articles are priced according to the amount of hand work which they carry.
 For those who favor the chatelaine there are ehatelaine lingerie bags of linen and pique. the flap embroidered in floral design and finished around the edge with a buttonholed scallop. This bag. which Is almost square In proportions, depends from two linen hangers stitched together at the top, and pinned under the belt with nursery pin or on the outside with brooch, or better still, large pearl pin to match the pearl button which fastens down the flap.
 Then there are lingerie hand bags, these linen and pique, plain or embrold- cred, with floral design or the owners initials. These are cut rounding at the corners and several inches from the top are embroidered eyelets through which wash ribbons are threaded. These bags are lined with plain white lawn and they launder like the proyerbial pocket hand kerchief.
 Lately Arrived English Novelties In Leather.-The new embossed bags and purses which all the high-class shops are displaying as midsummer novelties are In rich dull browns, the embossed designs. usually floral. in such colors as dark browns, deep rich red and woodland greens. Such Is the pictured bag with bill book and change purse. The belt with silver harness buckle matches the bag, though It does not belong to the set. The bag to the left Is an automobile acces- sorry of fine pin seal with novel mounting in silver. The inside of the bag Is lined with gray suede and the vanity fittings are silver mounted.
 Lingerie Bags Are n Fad With the Summer GirI.-The vogue of the nll-white street costume, tailored suit or jumper dress of linen or pique, has en- couraged the production of numerous white accessories quite the most attrac- tive of which are the new lingerie bags. These are roomy little hand bags of linen or piaue, some of which are plain except for one's monogram In white, while others have dainty floral designs worked out with fine mercerized linen threads. Bags of this style have rounding corners at the bottom, and buttonholed eyelets about three inches from the top through which wash ribbon Is run. Then there is the chatelaine bag. This is cut diagonally al the corners and has the flap handsomely embroidered, the edge scalloped and but tonhole stitched. It hangs from Inch wide straps of the material and Is pinned under or on the outside of the belt with a fancy pin. These lingerie bags launder like the proverbial pocket handkerchief which they carry, and are far more practical and very much daintier than even the prettiest of the leather novelties.