Accessories that Need Care in Their Choice: To Avoid White Elephonte Although few of us buy the accessories we need with our autumn and winter clothes until we have settled the important questions of coats and dresses, suits and hats, it is always interesting to look out for the things we are likely to want and make notes of where they are to be found, Carelessly acquired: shoes and bags, gloves and stockings, scarves and' jewels, share with ill-chosen coats, dresses, and hats the onus of being the most costly items in the whole wardrobe. Yet the woman who can select 'a complete outfit in which no detail offends or disappoints must be a past mistress in the art of dressing, even if she has quite a generous allowance at liber disposal, writes Jacqueline Howard in the "Morning Post.
There is comfort in remembering that although one may often envy the taste of a woman one knows, who is invariably well turned out, the probability is that she also makes mistakes at times, but never allows the rest of the world to know about them.
By this ime most people have a} pretty clear idea of what they must have for the winter months. Tt is certainly wise at this date to have an autumn turn-out of the wardrobe, fand decide what must be discarded, fand what will serve for a wet da or as second string to some of one's intended acquisitions. city and their convenient fastenings.
The most extravagant kind of bag, to choose (irrespective of its origi al cost.or the material of which it is made) is the bag which is not ge enough to hold all flat one is likely to put into it.
This is not so much a matter measurement as of shape. The very flat pochette demands an owner with very orderly habits and no weakness in the direction of hoarding letters and papers in a space only meant for the finest hand~ Kerchief and the flattest vanity case; she should either be a non= smoker or rely on other people's woman who likes her handbag to combine the roles of a miniature writing-desk and dress ing-table must eschew this tyne with firmmes. It may turn and rend, not her, but itself. It will certainly lose its own elegance and destroy hers.
The prevalence of velvet for gowns assures us that velvet for bags will establish the popularity begun last winter, Afternoon bags of black or deep brown velvet are very lovely and more durable than might be supposed. Evening ones to match the gown or shoes are still more exquisite, especially in tones of champagne beige or one of the off-whites, in turquoise or in black,
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