Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1913 — Fur Trimmings Popular. [ARTICLE]

Fur Trimmings Popular.

Considering the craze for fur trimmings this season, about the best use that an old muff can be put to is to be cut into strips and used as trimming. Everything high-priced has its touch of fur. Chiffon and all-over lace blouses have tiny collarettes of it, suits and gowns are banded with it, loose scarfs and muffs of sila, velvet draped, ar 3 edged with it. Even slippers have wee straps of it around their edges and fancy rosettes and buckles are made of fur. Furfs easy to cut Into strips. Mark the skin with a piece of chalk and run the edge of a sharp penknife along the marks. Scissors cut the hairs of the fur, a knife merely separates the peit mtA slits. The fur is eas ’to sew to a gown. An ovenamkw r stitcM should be used. Mlijf