FOR THE EVENING

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19894, 25 May 1936, Page 16

FOR THE EVENING

Unusual Bag Fashions Indications are that evening bag: this season will be most attractive and unusual. The modern woman, having adopted the practice of smoking, and of putting on makevup, requires a bag which is lirge enough to contain her powder, her lipstick, and her cigarettes. She is not content with the tiny orooede envelopes carried to dances three or four years ago. She wants something equally pretty, but far more practical. DeSigners have begun to pay more respect to women’s habit of smoking cigarettes. The latest powder compacts ure almost all combined with eig-zirette-caaes, and some even have lighters as well. The idea has spread to evening bags, and so the new bags are actually fitted with their own cig-arette-cases and compacts. Since a drive to the dance on a windy night may result in ruffled hair, a comb must be included. Nor must the lipstick be forgotten. The modern woman knows that she cannot spend a whole evening at a dance with Out needing some repairs to her make-up—o touch of lipstick after hot coffee has been drunk at supper, a little powder for the tip of her nose, and certainly she must have cigarettes. Americans, with their insistence on detail and their skill for compressing several oddments into a small space, have contrived the most bewucluug evening bags containing ull that the smart woman could possibly require (luring the dance. These new bags have just arrived in Sydney, and are the admiration of all who see them. Solidly and strongly made to resist wear, they yet retain a delicate appearonce consonant With that of the frocks they are to accompany. Their colours are either softly blended, or strong for contrast. An amazing variety of shapes, trimmings, and clamps has been achieved, so that no two bugs look alike. And inside are uttructive linings of moire or satin in white or cream. The fittings 01 those Alhlll’ll'llll evening hugs, the timireltcw-iisrs, compuz-ts, lipstick containers, tho mirrors, combs, utm, ore delightfully finislil-d. nml Show an interesting rnngv of [mitl‘l‘ns and designs. Some are of the popular chro~nium, others 01" gold, others of enamel. Not one of the fittings but would he exquisite l’vy its-elf, own if removed from its setting in (he ling and trans[erred to another. ___—___.