Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — Clad in Costly Fur. [ARTICLE]

Clad in Costly Fur.

JohDgtJi^Baptist with his raiment of skins would have been of little in-terest-idnnJfdfth avenue Thursday afternooißebmpared with a promenader clad in Persian lamb, says the New York Evening Sun. Her garment consisted of a bell skirt of tender young astrakhan, missing nothing of a fashionable cut, and a Spanish jacket. This was short over a skirt of shaded green velvet of a lettucelike tint, so light it was, a girdle fastening with large flaps in the back, apd large velvet sleeves. This costumfe was crowned by a black hat in velvet and- .violets.— There was no man or ,boy on the street so ignorant of feminine gear that this costume did net catch his eye. To look at it women almost brought the procession to a iialt.