NOVELTY POCHETTES
This season it is the fashion to carry a flat wallet-shaped pochette in place of a handbag, says a woman writer in the London "Daily Chronicle." Amongst the newest and most up-to-date are tliose made in sand colour or grey velvet_ calf stamped with a Tutankhamen design m bold relief. The value of a pochette as against a handbag lies in the fact that its envelope flap can be fitted with a really good-sized mirror —a point of no little importance in these days, when nine out of ten women think nothing of "renovating" their faces in public. ' Other fashionable pochettes are made of parchment-coloured silk, or chickenskiu, hand-painted like the fans of yesterday; while from Paris come some novelty models made entirely of tiny feathers brightly dyed in shaded Oriental colours and clasped with a large button cabochon ruby or emerald, set round with tiny rose diamonds. Painted pochettes to match evening dresses, or thfcse covered with embroidery similar to that which adorns the gown with which they are used, are now being sold for bridge parties.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 30, 4 August 1923, Page 18
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180NOVELTY POCHETTES Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 30, 4 August 1923, Page 18
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