LEATHER BELTS AND TIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1908, Page 11

LEATHER BELTS AND TIES.

The newest designs in belTs are not elways what one likes. For instance many of tho latest varieties (writes our London correspondent), are made of leather, dyed to znatoh the gown and carefully spliced and fitted to the curve of the figure — very good, so far. But instead of stopping there, the manufacturers are studding the leather with huge nails such as are used by saddlers in harness, making, some being designed of brass and some with filver finish — either requiring to bo rubbed up from time to time with chamois leather to keep them bright ; but even that is not all, for the makers vie with ono another in producing patterns with these nails, so that in not a few cases the entire belt is studded closely from end to end, each dome-shaped or convex nail . head being as large as a sixpence. Where the buckle is concerned a wide field of choice is permitted, always providing that it is of a plain and workmanlike description — brass, ailver, or enamel. Then again, fringes of leather are seen as a finish to French nockties of the same material, varied occasionally by a fringe of silk instead ; these neck finishes are long straight bands.

Philomena — Why do you wear gloves whilo learning to play bridge? Virginia — Because Percy told me never to show my hand.