Novelty of the Week.
PORTFOLIOS FOR MONEY AND. TOILET REtJCISITEi?. Tiie handbag of the newest Shape is called the portfolio, and is a dainty little ease planned on more ample lines than the ordinary purse-bag. The most beautiful ‘are made of .will gold of three colours--—dark, pale, ami what is called’ green gold; there are compartments inside for paper money and coins, the tabloids or eaehonx el many women carry about with them, a>4 tile customary toilet requisites. Less expensive’portfolios are made of soft mqroeco liijed with moire, silk, and Jlie particular point about their ornamentation is the monogram that is fiv.l in the left hand corner on the baek of the bag. Not in the Ordinary way, with Stamped gild lettering, is the new monograirt formed, but upon a plaque riveted 14 the leather. The plaque is a highly oxi nainenta.l little affair, wrought ,in gold and enamel, to match the colour of tint bag, with the initials intertwined in ths inside of a broken circle.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 8, 24 February 1909, Page 58
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167Novelty of the Week. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 8, 24 February 1909, Page 58
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