Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1913 — UTILIZING THE OLD FURS [ARTICLE]

UTILIZING THE OLD FURS

Never Was There a Season In Which the Odd Bits Could Be Better Employed. nils is a good year to make use of every bit of old fur you may have on hand. For it is a year when small touches of fur are much used. Day clothes, for both street and house, are trimmed with fdr, evening gowns and accessories show it, and even underclothes are decorated with it. So trot out your old furs and see what you can do with them. If you have a collar and muff set that is in fairly good condition you can do much to rejuvenate it by means of a little color. Try lining the muff with, say, bright green satin, and then fasten a big bow of green satin ribbon, to match the lining, on the collar. Or put a ruffle of colored chiffon in the ends of the muff and another under the ends of the Collar. Small pieces of fur that are in good condition may be made into snug little waistcoats to wear under the street suit coat. A pattern for waistcoats may be bought and the waistcoat cut of cotton cloth, fitted, altered and the fur cut frdm this corrected pattern. Fur is used on velvet hats. A strip of fur to band the crown of a velvet hat is a finish that is attractive. Fur bows, faced with colored silk or satin to match the lining of the muff and the bow on the collar, are also interesting. Another use for old strips of fur that good condition's for neck ruffs of various sorts. Tulle can be plaited, wired at the edges and edged with fur. Or velvet ribbon foui* inches wide can t< laid in small box plaits

and finished with a band of fur through the center, tied sungly about the throat with ribbon ends. Evening frocks of filmy texture - lace, chiffon, gauze and other thin materials—can be effectively trimmed with touches of fur. A chiffon or tulle tunic edged with fur, fur buttons on a lace bodice, a buckle of fur at the girdle or somewhere on the skirt drapery—all these are interesting. Pur collars are much used 'on evening coats, and an old fur muff will often be found to contain enough fur for such a collar. It can be lined with satin or with the material of which the coat is made.