LADIES' HANDBAGS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1934, Page 13

LADIES' HANDBAGS

DIVERSITY OF SHAPE

(From "The Post's'? Representative.) ' LONDON, February 23. Fashion-in handbags' has taken a 'strange* turuW this season.' There are practically iro fashions* and any novelty will sell. ( One may see tilie diversity of ideas in shape and in material. . ' ' When her Majesty the Queen toured Uib British Industries Fair she was attractedby and bought a cork bag. The cork is" made up on the same .lines- as a. cork dish mat, but the adhesive mixtuie used is capable of standing the wet. The edging*is of leather.' Any artistic shape has an attraction. For instance, there is the irregular rectangular shape, the three-quarters of 3, circle, ' the triangle with another obtruding triangle of a different eolbur—-black and white leather.. . ..':" .'',''' ,

Bags for evening .use have not been so diversely developed. : The, sinrple shape remains, and the novelty, is merely in the silk material used'and the ornamentation. ' For sports wear there are' the scarves arid bags ia the same material of plaids or other patterned tweed.. Others in soft angoraj carry out a tri-eolour scheme.. . There is the frame of wood with glass orna- • mentation. Then there is a now and handsome pleated design. . • One firm has introduced a novel catch in the form, of a horseshoe and bar. The horseshoe is.a magnet guaranteed to retain its power for four years. . The metal is imtarnishable.and thecatet 13 applied to a wide range of leather and fabrics bags. ■ For the races there is a variety ot bags made of hailstone calf—a new treatment of calf. The skin has an irregular surface, and there is plenty of capacity in the designs for the pockets are numerous. The colours are good; most are dark, including brown, navy, and mahogany-red. Another novelty is the roll-top bag. The two edges of the bag lave a natural roll and when in position are secured by two dome fasteners. WHITE LEATHER POPULAR! The trade foretells' that about Juno of this-year white leather handbags will be very popular as a spring fashion, and they are manufacturing accordingly. Another very popular line is the piggraiued white or coloured leather,bag, with thin black or red, unsymmetricaJ }mes drawn all over it. . /, ' It is interesting. to, note the trade process through which the crocodile bag has passed. There! came' -a'time when large scale crocodile, skins, were no longer used for travelling or dressing cases. There was a glut in the skins and- real crocodile was used for bags, which were sold last year at low prices, and the same applied_ to crocodile shoes. Among the shopping bags which it is understood,find, their. way to. New Zealand there is the patchwork bag of bright leather. Some of these are.circular in shape. Then there is the knitting bag with. a n eyelet in the side for the wool to be taken through.