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Christmas Gift

Christmas Opera Bag

from The Delineator Magazine December 1903

 


This fashionable opera purse was listed with suggestions for inexpensive Christmas gifts in the 1903 holiday issue of the Delineator Magazine. 

Purse or handbag

This handsome bag to hold opera glasses, fan, etc., would be an acceptable gift not only for its usefulness but also for its novelty. It is made of pale gray suede dotted all over with tiny steel beads.  The gathering string of black satin ribbon, and the initials are wrought out of  dull black beads. Pale gray peau de soie might be quite as satisfactorily employed and the lining of satin match in color or harmonize with that of the outside.

  

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