ALL ABOUT WAISTBELTS
Every variety of reptile skin is pressed into service for waistbelts in whatever tone is most attractive on the suit it adorns. Quite often eyelet holes and buckles are of steel, bone or thread. , ... .. , Stockinette belts are lined with kid. The materials are banded together with fine stitchery in contrasting colours. Copies of magnificent old buckles are made for the fastening. For instance, a belt of natural stockinette combined with emerald kid. fastened with a clasp of mock emeralds set in gold. Strips of snakeskin in its natural form are allied with silver-edged squares of black suede. Calfskin and dogskin belts are new enough to be treated to nothing more than a coarse binding of moire. Slim waistbelts. composed entirely of jewellery, are a more sophisticated inode. At the moment crystal is carrying all before it.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 59, 1 June 1927, Page 5
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139ALL ABOUT WAISTBELTS Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 59, 1 June 1927, Page 5
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