FASHIONS IN HANDBAGS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5397, 8 March 1929, Page 4

FASHIONS IN HANDBAGS.

The new season’s handbags have large and decorative metal handles through which the hajnd may be slipped to carry the; bag, and sift pliable leathers, in beige, brown, black, ami powder blue. Tweed is quite the newest novelty, ayid is very smart .with a sports outfit.

UNUSUAL HOSE SEEN IN PARIS.

Parisian women must have something distinctly dift’erenit from the rest of the world, so shaded stockings, have become the craze of. the moment. Dark down the back, they g;r,ow pale towards the; front until, from almost black, they fade to pastel grey, or from deep crimson to pale pink. The fashion is more striking than beautiful, but it certainly has a slimming, effect upon, the legs. Stockings of gcfld and silver,tissue are worn with shoes: to match, and the fine chiffon hose worn with satin slides for the evening: are almost indiscernible from the leg at all- Open-work clocks are, growing so wide that they threaten to across the leg and foot, and revive the Edwardian fashion for open-work stockings. The gpjd and silver fishnet stockings with a diamond mesh more than a quarter erf an inch wide are; Still seen, but more popular is a modification with the silk mesh closer ana l thicker. DRESS REVOLT IN UTALY. Italian women have decided that they will no longer be slaves to Paris dress fashions. The “Daily Mail’s” Rome correspondent says that a committee headed by ’Princess Piombino, wife bf the Governor of Rome, and including many notable women in Roman society, hast pledlged' itself, individually and cell ectively, to wear only clothes of Italian design, made in Italy, of Italian materials. The Fascist newspaper ‘ ‘L’lmpero” urges riven to similarly cas t off .the slavery of London tailoring fashions and cooperate in evolving st n Italian dress.