Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1911 — FLOWERS ON THE FUR SCARF [ARTICLE]

FLOWERS ON THE FUR SCARF

Effective Touch That Gives Relief to Somber Garments Worn in Cold Weather. One small touch of color makes sombre garments bloom with brightness. This is quite noticeable since the women began wearing a tiny bunch of artificial flowers or a single satin rose against the dark fur shoulder scarf. This.fashion Began Just a few weeks ago, and it has been widely taken up ever since. It is interesting to watch a thing like this grow. A woman came" into an afternoon tea with a brilliant pink satin rose pinned on a black fox scarf. Twenty women discussed it later and the next day after that half the number were downtown shopping for colored flowers. On the succeeding days there were flowers in plenty on dark furs wherever women were focpgathred. It was a Small touch, but it gave color and brilliancy to the dull tones that women wear on our streets. It was better than a gardenia in the buttonhole, and better than, a bow of colored ribbon, although this fashion is being taken np by those who do not wish to pay the price for a good artificial blossom. The fashion for satin flowers came in last summer, but did not meet with wide success in this particular spot. One saw roses of the material on hats and again on evening gowns as a rival to the rococo affairs of bullion cloth. Empire gowns for young girls carried girdles of tiny satin buds on a green vlneT and even slippers were finished off with a tiny satin blossom. Yet the vogue of the single ""Bower well made and attached to the costume as a note of rich color was not in general, use. Then, without warning, came this attractive method of pinning such a color to one’s furs. In the old days, when a fur piece was something to keep one warm in the Btreet and to be laid aside Indoors, the colored flower woqld not have served half as well as it does now, when furs are retained at all formal daytime affairs except luncheons.