The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
Attractive Old
Fashioned Belt

p ELTS worn by young girls during
- the morning hours are of plain
silk elastic matching the color of either
the dress skirt or the blouse. They
are at least two inches wide and close
with self-toned metal clasps.
Persian belts of silk elastic show an
infinite variety of color combinations
and patterns embossed or embroidered
with bright silks. Those belts having
embroideries done on gold or silver
groundings have buckles OF matching
metal "jewel" set, or of mother OF
pearl, richly chased.
Narrow, stiff belts Of nonfiexible
feathers like morocco have edges
stitched in gilt thread and ends that
fasten with rather small FURNISHED gold
buckles. Others in black, white and
brilliantly colored patent leather have
their surface barred off with crosswise
bands of dull kid or have one wide or
a succession of hairline stripes running
through their center. These designs
are wonderfully effective when de-
veloped in pelts of two distinct tones,
as in the case of natural colored pig
skin slit at intervals throughout Its
entire length and run through with q
strip OF bronze colored patent kid.
For wide belts soft pelts like suede
or ooze are preferable. These are either
throughout their entire length or they
are folded once through the center
Some of them are embroidered in coarse
bright silks or are appliqued with
beaded disks, while others have line
of rather large steel nailheads along
their edges and centers and close with
kid covered buckles. nailhead studded.
Or the buckles may be of smoothly I'M
fshed steel. or white metal
RuCklaa for crngh beltS neCeS-
sarily wider and are usually accompa-
MED by sets Of back and hip slides, the
better to preserve the waist line. With
the very elaborate belts of white or
gray suede are used jeweled buckles Of
French gilt or oxidized finish.
AT the moment old fashioned and
quaint buckles are considered far more
smart than anything of modern manu-
facture. and consequently jewel caskets
are being ransacked in the quest for
brooches set with canoes, ~corals, anne
thysts, turquoise, pearls and garnets
arranged singly or In groups. Clasps
formerly attached to black velvet
throat and wrist bands are employed to
fasten fabric belts, and recourse is even
had to the handsome buckles of for
gotten designs which were used on
the hats and opera cloaks of a past
generation. The expense of having such
ornaments backed with bars terminal
ing with clasps is not great in compari-
son with the prices now demanded for
buckles of really fine workmanship.
The betting possibilities of tinsel
tissues are endless. They are trimmed
with narrow Persian borderings, with
appliqued figures cut from oriental
bands and the silver webbing embroid-
cred VITA gold or the gold with the
silver.
Tucked satin messaline Is used for
hve inch wide belts having ends that
nook invisibly at the left side of the
waist under a point finished with a
self-colored silk tassel or Turkish ball.
Three slightly overlapping strands of
broad black velvet ribbon attached to
a hve inch strip OF whalebone form the
back OF girdIe which tapers gradu-
ally toward the under side of the arm,
where 1t Is attached to bone half the
length of that used at the back. From
that point the velvet bands cross the
fronts OF the waist line horizontally and
close with q cut Jet buckle