FASHIONS IN UMBRELLAS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17773, 8 October 1927, Page 14

FASHIONS IN UMBRELLAS.

MOVING TONGUES. Both amusing and sportive are new umbrella handles with handcarvcd wooden bird and animal heads, which have movable tongues and eyes. Various kinds of dogs, including Boston bulls and terriers, are represented in these heads, which sometimes have movable tongues only. Both long and short-handled models are contrived, by the difference in design of the head and the manipulation of the base. Increasing the realism of the annual head designs is a braided thong of leather, fastened to the handle with a metal ring, like the leash by which a dog is held.

Ducks’ heads provide more colourful models, topping silk umbrellas, which have three-inch wide fancy borders. Handles featured include transparent amber tops, which enclose a little figure representing airplane, or perhaps a cat or a dog. The entire handle is of composition, and the top, perhaps an inch and a half high. Lorms a sort of encasement for the novelty inside.