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Show A EXT TO FASHIONS in nick- wear, nothing changes with I I more astonishing rapidity than fashions In knitting bags. Bag styles are here today and gone tomorrow; tomor-row; new ideas are picked up and imitated and then passed on into oblivion. ob-livion. Now It Is the big bag suspend-: suspend-: ed from hoops; then hoops diminish to bracelets; bracelets give way to cord drawstrings; drawstrings in turn yield to strips of material extending upward from the bag. Every woman who sees a new bag must havo one I like it and a bag modo seoms to spread like wildfire. When you ob-I ob-I serve a woman In tho subway sitting I with bent head and Intent gaze and an absorbed, absent-minded expres-Sfion expres-Sfion of eye, you will usually discover that she Is enthralled with a now conceit con-ceit in knitting bags, carried by some other woman, and is mentally registering register-ing a copy of It In her mind. Day ; after tomorrow she, herself, will fare forth with just such a bag for knitting knit-ting bags are very easy to copy and it Is almost Impossible to originate one that will not be duplicated before i it has been "out" a week And a last year's knitting bag is Intolerable from a stylo standpoint I -u"e capable of spoiling In a crlt- I leal feminine eye the smartest new spring costume. Just now the favored ljlumiiiimiMiii knitting bag is small, rather than large. Tho monstrous affairs which women lugged about last summer arc rather out of date and arc not carried with tailored or formal street costumes cos-tumes though they aro permissible with summer morning frocks and sport clothes Before hugo knitting Lags camo Into fashion tho woman whose room at the summer hotel was up on tho third floor, spent a good deal of time running up and down stairs, fetching magazines, needlework, needle-work, pocket-camera, and other thlng3 that promote tho pleasure of vacation days. Now all these belongings belong-ings can be tucked Into the capacious knitting bag at tho day's start and produced as needed with no necessity for a dash upsralrs. So the bl; bag is not likely to be discarded for summer sum-mer use; it is too valuable a boon companion. With the formal costume however, the big, cumbersome bag femininity has decided makes itself too obvious. It robs tho costume of part of its effect and Is not conducive to chic in the general appearance. It Is, moreover, more-over, not really necessary to carry a dozen and ono things about with one when ono Is dressed for a matinee or for a lecture or for calling All the bag need hold Is one's knitting and perhaps a wee vanity outfit and a I K$iiiiiiiiuimiimilfilimilf "icsa small purse. Perhaps the fan. tnat most women are knitting socks these days, Instead of sweaters, has something to do with the diminished size of tho knitting bag. Not only are socks raoro needed than sweaters by tho soldiers, but tho socks are more Interesting to make. And there IS still Just a little distinction distinc-tion about being able to do socks. It marks ono us an advanced knitter and an expert at tho art. Some women wom-en keep two socks going always; one at a point where it may be worked upon when complete attention Is not needed, and another sock progressed to that point tho heel of course where it is safest to tackle tho knitting knit-ting in tho quiet of one's homo. A very' smart sock bag, of the very latest shape and style, Is pictured, a knitting bag this, quiet modish and up-to-the-moment enough to accompany accom-pany tho last word in spring costume. Tho bag Is made of velvot, with a lining of soft, supple straw, and the grape decoration Is decidedly new and intriguing. The general description (VelTet and straw and grape-trimmed ) suggests a hat, docs it not? And indeed, in-deed, the new knitting bags aro apt to be of millinery materials for mos of them aro traveling mates with ' ' . " ! .. : -' . ;- - i '' A Folding Parasol To Match Tin- Bag Fits Into A Pocket Of The Llidng. Space And To sp;u-c Poi One's Knitting, A Magazine And Other Summer Morning Belongings. spring hats. In this velvet bag the straw lining docs not run all tho way down It is rather a facing to glvo the millinery suggestion and the lower two-thirds of tho lining are of soft silk, a material much less apt to catch Instray loops of worsted. Pretty little bags for carrying half-finished half-finished socks, are raado of wide ribbon rib-bon and heavy canvas cross-stitched In a conventional flower pattern. The embroidered canvas makes tho lower half of the bag and tho ribbon the upper half, and the ribbon is shirred over bracelet hoops of bono or amber composition. t ' One of the summer vacation bags recently seen was a capacious reticule that embodied the "red white and blue," This beach bag was made of blue canvas strips with a center strip of white canvas. The strips aro crlss-J crlss-J crossed with darned threads, the blue strips In red; tho whlto strips In blue, Blue cords draw up the bag, and to emphasize the color scheme, clusters of flame red poppies are caught at either side where the bag is shaped by shirring. It is a very good Idea to put a few snap-fasteners along tho inner edges of the knitting bag at the sldo openings. open-ings. When a bag Is lifted Its contents con-tents settle to the bottom and may be safely carried about; but when tho bag is thrown down, small articles aro very apt to work their way out through the apertures at the sides and tho closed snaps prevent this. Re-grottablo Re-grottablo as It seoms. sneak thieves havo been known to slip predatory hands into knitting bags, in crowded public conveyances, and the protection of tho snaps may guard you against ' ' ! I ' . ' : gfjSsiHK Where li'cr She Goes, Her Knitting Bag Goes, in Its New Spring Toggery Tog-gery Of Velvet And Straw With Fruit Trimming Tho Knitting Bag Is Smart Enough To Accompany Any Costume. loss of purse, or gold thimble or some other valued trinket carried in tho faiiifisinitMiiiEsiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiy bag. A new style of knitting bag Is ol patent leather and measures nlneteon or twenty inches across, with a depth of only fourteen inches. A sweater and needles may bo carried comfortably comfort-ably in this bag which Is rather good looking, with its trimming of silk fruit and its bright silk lining. The so-called service knitting bags aro ad-mlrablo ad-mlrablo affairs for traveling or general gen-eral use. They are mado of pin seal leather and are like an ordinary leather handbag except that tho size Is exaggerated. From tho framo depends de-pends a smaller bag, a dupllcato of tho big service bag. Tho largo bag Is for knitting materials; the small ono for purse and similar belongings. An admirable summer knitting bafi has a folded parasol tucked into a pocket of tho lining. A picture of this bag is presented. No woman can manage with perfect grace both a knitting rcUculo and a parasol, yot woman Is loathe to glvo up hor parasol, par-asol, now that sho und tho knitting bag havo become boon companions. So it Is very pleasing to have one's sunshade at hand In case of noed, folded fold-ed compactly and tucked Into a compartment com-partment of the indispensable bag. I Another contraction, is the knitting bag that turns Itself into a parasol by a manipulation of concealed springs and strings. Over hor arm, it appears to be and is a bag capable cap-able of holding her knitting Turned inside out. It becomes a very present-able present-able sunshade with a sray cover and wooden handle, i |