Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1912 — NEW MODES IN FUR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW MODES IN FUR

There doubtless has been an unusual amount of fur sold this season, for the fashion oracles have decreed that this shall be a fur season. In many respects models for this winter vary but slightly from those of the preceding season, but this is to be expected, for much of*the beauty of a fur garment depends upon the quality and color of the fur and the fine workmanship displayed in its fashioning, rather than.upon originality of line or trimming. The most beautiful furs are at their best when severely handled. No applied trimming or bizarre cutting can improve Russian sable or silver fox, and, aa a rule, the better grades of long-haired furs are more effective when merely self-trimmed. Scarfs of one variety of fur are much in evidence, too, this season, even in, the short-haired furs, such as seal, ermine and chinchilla. Many of the scarfs are three-quar-ters or even a yard wide, and proportionately long, being lengthy enough to drape around the body and fall almost to the floor. Ermine is usually left unadorned, save for a fringe of ermine tails. And, incidentally, it may be noted that the fashion for scattering tiny splashes of black and! faint yellow over the surface of an ermine coat, scarf or muff no longer prevails. PrefV

erence is now given to tailless or white ermine, with the black tails applied as fringe or in ornamental clusters. Entire coats of ermine are frequently seen! Sometimes the pure white fur fs trimmed with the black and white tails; again black and white ermine is primmed with black fur, such as the finest breitschwanz, silky caracul, black fox, etc. These fur coats are ample, luxurious and full length, the right front crossing far over the left, but so cu that the coat is drawn in toward the bottom to give the approved narrow silhouette. Of fine seal, breitschwanz, moleskin and sable coats, there is apparently no end, and these furs are made up into coats ranging from the conservatively practical coat for street wear to the sumptuous evening wrap.Sealskin is perhaps the smartest fur for street or evening wear, and one of the sketches in the large drawing shows an extremely chic model for afternoon or evening wear, made of sealskin. The coat has a high turndown collar at the back, and at the front there are long revers, the right revers crossing over to the left and fastening at the left side. The back of the garment is also cut in point shape, the point crossing over to the right side* The coat is lined with white velvet

1. Sealskin Lined With White Velvet. 2. Ermine Scarf. 3. Moleskin Trimmed With Chinchilia Squirrel.