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Article: History repeats itself as mesh bags make comeback
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 9, 2002
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Antiques
History repeats itself as mesh bags make comeback
Fashion must-have of 1800s returns
By RALPH AND TERRY KOVEL
Cowles Syndicate
Sunday, June 9, 2002
Mesh purses are back in style.
They were first used in the 1820s. The expensive early bags were
made of real woven gold or silver.
By the 1870s, chain-mesh bags had come into style. The first bags
were made by hand from interlocking metal rings. Companies sent the
links to housewives, who assembled the mesh at home. Early chain bags
had handles with a finger-ring attachment so a small purse could be
held by a finger while a woman was dancing.
Mesh purses were made of nickel silver by 1895. By 1899, some were
made of steel with a gold ...
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