Umbrellas In Handbags
PARIS (By Airmail).—Smart Paris women can now carry their umbrellas in their handbags, thanks to detachable handles which are a feature oi this season’s models.
The slender and straight lines of the new umbrella handles, many of them designed by pupils of the Paris School of Fine Arts, are made in various exotic Woods, plastic or skins. Handles are decorated with gilt bees, dice in a glass box, a glass and gilt house with doorbell, spurs and vivid scarves.
Others, handcarved by art students, have stylised lines in shapes such as a lioness at rest or a praying Chinese. A ban-el and bunch of grapes, in light coloured wood, surmounting a black lacquered straight handle is another design.
Many handles are covered in checked leather and some of the shorter handles end in a tassel.
One tapered, brown leather covered handle has an oval mirror at the end.
Sports umbrellas end in snake skin covered golf sticks or pigskin knobs.— Reuters.
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Northern Advocate, 30 November 1948, Page 3
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