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Show Softly Draped Handbags Tuned to Stunning Fall, Winter Costumes By CIIERIE NICHOLAS s: 4- : w;; y ' i --...-V Aii-Wii-aK ;i44m4: ;i444.:ii i444444 - ,; 44 f 4 4k;:, i4 4 ! ". " 4 'M4X4fw::;i "ky. i WMm flips - :4 '4 ' " : 444;y44 ;-44444.v; :: 44 v. - ' 4 i 4. ..... :. .- 44:; V' ,: ?4 ' ', - 4 : ; 44 -44444444; 444:44$ -i 444444444' 4f '4 p:i:::::::: :l I :S: Pss-;;;; pii-i 44;:: 44y;: v 44 y;MM4444 l!pi, '4444t t,44m 44 ..; ; -i&ig-gsgs.iif ?--4 4-4. -.i', '"'-:' 4--;VV.- : 'V:; : S ' O'".:::: iiai MBmimmi i mMSiiimmmmm llillllll DESIGNERS are on the qui vive this season to create handsome handbags that shall measure up to the fashion glory and the new elegance ele-gance of the stunning costumes which go to make up the fall and winter style picture. In assembling your fall-winter wardrobe, keep in mind that this year your costume will be only as smart as the handbag you carry with it. That's how important handbags hand-bags really are. You will have no trouble in finding as handsome handbags hand-bags and as versatile as ever fancy might picture. Be sure to make your selection with meticulous care, for this year's handbags make a decided de-cided departure from the stereotyped stereo-typed styles of yore. The three voguish Jenny handbags shown in the illustration are typical of the new movement toward the feminine look, achieved through soft draping. These bags are styled as American women prefer them, with elegance and stark clean lines, and in fabrics that mean fashion and wearability. With your perfect dawn-to-dusk trotteur, the bag to the left will be ideal. It is spiced with the new soft look via uniquely quilted and gathered gath-ered supple goatskin. You'll take real pleasure in this bag because it is so roomily built to take care of your feminine possessions, and it sure is a winner in "looks." Simple enough for tailored casuals, cas-uals, feminine enough for all your frills is the handbag centered above. It tells you that the underarm under-arm bag has lost its strictly tailored look, has been lifted out of it this season with soft pleats and deft draping, as you see. The supple goatskin that fashions this bag Is most attractive not only to the eye but to the touch. The mock tortoise tor-toise that makes such a good-looking trim is outstanding In the news when it comes to adding the touch that tells to this season's smartest handbags. Sleek, smooth, quality-kind broadcloth, broad-cloth, the fabric that x fraternizes with most every costume makes the good-looking bag to the right. In this instance, the designer takes the ever-popular underarm handle bag and artfully drapes a pleated flange through a graceful span of mock tortoise. tor-toise. Speaking in general of what's what in new handbag fashions, the most exciting innovation in many a season is the advent of little bulbous bulb-ous pouch, bags done in eye-catching silhouettes. These pouch bags certainly have cunning ways and they are staging a display of breathtaking breath-taking novelty. Made of practical broadcloth, faille and various wearable wear-able media, they carry on in a modest way by day. When it comes to the dressy cocktail party and gala after-five occasion, however, the little lit-tle pouch bag puts on a spectacular spectacu-lar display that fairly bubbles over with all the glitter and intriguing fussiness imagination can devise. Just now it's the whimsical pouch bag of black satin that holds forth in the fashion spotlight. Women are buying these bags to go with the satin hat and with the all-satin gown that is so style-important this fall. These black satin bags, are perfect with afternoon and evening clothes. The party bags fairly scintillate with the glitter of sequins or tiny steel or jet beads. Most of the box bags have straps to sling over the arm. The newsiest news of all fa the little shoulder strap bags that become a decorative part of the frock when dancing. Released by Western Newspaper Union. |