LEATHER BAGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19236, 27 January 1926, Page 7

LEATHER BAGS.

All bags, travelling, sports and hand jags, are made with unusual merit in Engand, writes an exchange correspondent. London shops display a bewildering roriety. They seem always to be more implo, crushable, wearable and altogether noro important than ours. An Englishnan cares far loss about tho contour of Ins bag than about its accommodating qualities and durability. Nowadays this applies equally to women's bags. Hand bags as they are translated in London ire larger and have the serious look of being useful as well as artistic. Tim usual bag designed, to hold a number o£ articles is made /of some soft leather gathered into cross metal pieces and closing with a snap, knapsack fashiou, with a soft leather handle to slip over one's arm. Those, in pigskin, doeskin and other soft leathers are vory smart. In the smaller handbags, the ordinary purse bag that a lady may carry anywhere, any time, with street dross, there are many novelties. Tooled leather used in the linest bags and cases is a perennial in London, and with embossed leather seems never to bo out of style. Large envelope purse bags made of these are handsome find will appeal to women bored with the fussy inadequate bags so much in evidence, the last two seasons. A .smart bag in envelope shape is the striped calf "pochette," in black and tun, blue and black, brown and tan, arid other colour combinations. "Crushed calf" is a variety of fine finished leather of which a . number of purses and purse bags are made. It is a new style that will be heard from in New York, as well as in Europe, the coming season. It is shown by a house distinguished for original designs of exceptional artistic value, in beautiful colours -mauve, jf.de, bronze, Chinese red and blue. Purses made if tins crushed call are slender and graceful in shape, smaller than most models, but made to contain several small articles besides one s bills and coin. ly