Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-20
HANDBAGS FOR SUMNER
Novelties of the Season in Cotton and
and Linen.
BAGS TO MATCH THE TUB GOwES
More Elaborate Bags OF Metallic
Cause over snL-NeVv Models I'm
the Long Mesh Change or
Handkerchief Purse.

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sorted well with summer frocks, always
excepting the tailored street costume
But gradually the bag designers have
! been introducing models suitable for asso-
citation with summer costumes. and this
| spring the summer bag appears to have
! come with a rush. To be sure, some OF the
| models are as suitable for winter as for
| summer-delicate trifles OF metallic gauze
and lace and silk, appropriate only with
! elaborate and elegant frooks and cloaks,
bags for the casino, the bridge toilette,
| the restaurant dinner, etc.
Some Of these dainty bags are OF silk In
delicate ooloring with festoons Of tiny
! flower garlands spplidued upon the silk and
metallic lace and galoon for trimming. In
| the bottom of the bag is set little round
mrror-an extremely handy thing upon oc-
casion and more easily and unobtrusively
consulted than chatelaine or purse mir
ror. One OF the prettiest bags OF this kind
Is Of gold color, with its wee garlands In
soft duh blue and rose and green, It's duh
gold galoon and lace and draw string re-
pesting the tone OF the silk and its lining
OF dull blue.
Other bags OF the elaborate class are OF
metallic gauze over colored silk, mousse
line or satin, and with exquisite clusters
of roses in metallic gauEe whose gold or B.
silver is shot with dull rose or other faded
hues. or, it may be that gold lace OF net
is let into the gauze and embroidered over
in a design OF soft old oolorings.
In one Fifth avenue shop are bags of
dull old silver or gold lace-a rather fine
lace whose design is re-enforced by silk
embroidery Of subtly blending colorings,
and side by side with these are bags OF
metallic gauze trimmed in metallic lace
and embroidered in small imitation stones
coral turquoise, lapis lazuli, ohrysoprase,
| etc,
Metallic gauge or cloth heavily embroid-
cred in metallic thread and mounted In
metal makes a very handsome and service
| able bag for dress occasions and colored
silk, the soft, rich, fine, corded kind by
preference, embroidered in metallic thread
and mounted in metal is exceedingly smart
OF the gold and silver mesh tags ono
| need hardly speak They are to be had
| in all sizes and forms and at almost all
prices The silver gilt OF fine mesh is the
one most generally carried out, but the gold
bag is by no means rare and one can pay
$4,000 for a Jewel studded gold mesh bag
II one has the money and wants to burn
It in that way.
But 1t is among the cotton and linen
bags that one finds the real novelties, and
many Of these new things, though by no
means cheap, are within the reach OF the
woman for whom Jewel studded gold bags
are quite out Of the question.
| Here again the printed cottons come TO
the front, and no better use has been made
of these quaint limitations Of old time cot
tons They make the daintlest and most
charming of bags in all sizes, are cool and
summery, yet have decided character and
smartness. Sketches Of a few OF the many
models are printed here, but no real idea
Of them can be gained from black and
white sketches for their chief charm is in
their colorlng.
The prim little bag of sprigged cotton,
for example, looks commonplace enough
in black and white, but has character
all its own in its oolored guise. One OF
these bags is in mustard yellow ground.
with its stiff, little sprgs OF dull blue and
green and rose.
Another has a dull blue ground with
sprIgs of old fashioned mulberry tones.
third is Of sprig color, with the same old
time mulberry and a faded blue.
Then there is the bag OF rounded curves
and metal mounting 1t Is made OF a
eretonne whose cream ground hardly
shows at all through heavily massed
design of roses and morning glorles or
of hOllyhocks in many shades. This same
shape is made up too in more antique
looking cotton, heavy-lIko cretonne but
with a mixed eoru ground, with one big
motif Of flower and garland In mulberry
tones on each side OF the bag.
There are gay little striped cotton bags
too narrow stripes Of blue and white, rose
and white, lavender and white, ETC., with
formal little floral sprigs or posies scat
tered over the striped ground, and in the
big soft bags more imposing striped stuffs
are used. For instance such big bag
as the one pictured here may be madF "
antique chlntz or cretonne umltanon
antique Of course) with four or five inch
floral stripe between plain stripes or
stripes with conventional design
A border OF metallic gallon runs around
the bag and is edged by fringe of the
color most prominent in the printed cotton.
Gold cords draw up the mouth Of the bag
and gold cord and tassels are knotted 10
fall down over the colored cotton,
Less gray, but very attractive for use
with summer tub frocks, are the all white
bags of embroidered linen or plque, Some
times the embroidery Is done In fine
soutaohe, and many pretty models show
soutache embroidery in color on a white
ground or white embroidery on eoloTed
ground.
Smart bags OF this sort are made to
match frocBs In white and color and some
very pretty models are made up without
metal mounting. the flap buttonlng over on
the bag and the handle made OF stitched
linen or pique. Such bags as this may be
made at home by the clever needle woman,
and, indeed, many elaboTately emboidered
linen bags are taken to the jewellers by
the women who have made them and are
mounted In metal.
Lace is used for the summer bag, too.
Irish lace being the usual choice, although
we have seen two or three elegant little
bags of real Venetian and gold laoo over
gold gauze. The Irish lace bag, like the
bag OF embroidered linen may be mounted
or unmounted, and occasionally one sees
a good looking model in which white
leather and lace are combined.
The long mesh change and handkerchief
purse on rings has grown to more im-
posing proportions and appears in beaded
and embroidered nets OF all colors. Some
Of these models are lovely In color and are
made very handsome by elaborate beading
and jeweled.
In leather bags there is nothing absO-