LONG-HANDLED PARASOLS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 19, 17 October 1907, Page 3

LONG-HANDLED PARASOLS.

< . Through his insistence on a very long walkfcig <tick,. which "preference,' by the way, lio shares with ri the'Princo of' Wales, the King has set a, fashion in parasols'. Tho idea has resulted in. the long-haridlod sunshade, and when the last mail left England, this was tlio announcement:—"To''be-smart, one must possess herself of a'very long-handlc-d parasol, the more antique and'old-fashioned the better." This would be ripe'summer, and so wo have still a little way to look. Speaking more generally, parasol fashions later on will be rather revolutionary.'.; • Instead of having heavy handles 'carvcd into all sorts of designs, the most stylish samples; will have no handle at all, tho stick being very long, as said, as slender as a 'pencil, and the "hand " end, of it having a-slender chain, which will go round th<y wrist' or'fingers. Among tho vory modish in England such parasols have been seen with chains set with emeralds, "daisy chains" of'artificial flowers, and oven chains or strings of butterflies. Others, again, have suodo loops, and these, perhaps, call for the most admiration.