NEW BAGS FROM OLD GLOVES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2988, 27 January 1917, Page 5

NEW BAGS FROM OLD GLOVES

"Give me your old gloves and I'll make you now handbags," says the Frenchwoman, and she takes the old pairs of gloves intended for discard, cuts them up one way, sews them up another—and starts an entirely new fashion around tho world/ says "M.8." in "Everylady's."

"It is one of the many fashions that a woman with oven a slight knowledge of sewing can adapt for herself. All she needs are a pair of gloves, long ones preferred, and, a scrap-bag. The gloves are cut up the outside seam, laid together 'fiat and sewed. The shape and trimmings depend upon her imagination.

"The fashion started -when a clever Frenchwoman begge/1 tho discarded gloves from all 'the famous people in Paris. She had the givers autograph them, then set the convalescent soldiers in. the hospitals to work at sowing them together. The society women who assisted in war relief work trimmed them, and made of each a work of art; and they are now being sold for the benefit of the Red Cross. One bag, made from a pair of autographed gloves worn by Sarah Bernhardt, when last she played 'Madame X, , is priced at £20. . "A'bag easy to copy comes from a pair of gloves worn by Cecil Porel, of the, Comedie Francaise. The gloves are of white kid, sewed together down the sides, and cut off square at tho bottom, just above the finger parts. The bag is tinted with blue paint here and there, perhaps in places where it showed soil or wear, trimmed with lavender beads and frilled and lined with lavender silk. And yet another of pearl-tinted suede, mado into a perfectly straight shape. An extra piece of kid is cut into a fan, and on this is painted the portrait of some lovely lady holding a fan in her hands. The fingers are slit into narrow strips and tied into a tassel; the bke silk lining is frilled above the bag, and is handpainted with flowers. • _ "By experimenting along the lines of these novel suggestions, oven the most inexperienced needle-worker can fashion a token for friend or relative triat is absolutely individual in stamp. A short glove con be metamorphosed into numerous little bagulities. It would be necessary only to cut away the pieces between the fingers and to stitch the fingers themselves on a satin foundation."