Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1914 — MANY POPULAR FURS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MANY POPULAR FURS

GREAT VARIETY 'TO CHOOSE FROM THIB SEASON. Are Used for All Sorts of Bandings for Btreet Garments—Sketch Shows Excellent Way to Utilize the Material. Of the furs used for suit and dress trimmings, skunk, fitch, fox, civet cat, Australian opossum, muskrat and raccoon are most modish, and these are seen in wide and narrow bandings on collars, cuffs and hems of street garments. Although there is a decided craze for the new dyed pelts, it hardly seems likely to- grow, for aside from the weird and bizarre effects thus obtained the prices of the same are almost prohibitive. Who would ever have dreamed of dyeing a pretty little squirrel or mink reseda green or transforming the stately white fox into a canary yellow or burnt orange reproduction? Yet these “improvements” on nature are considered very chic and interesting probably because no one ever thought of it before! The dyed yellow fox is the most acceptable of

these eccentricities, and some really handsome effects are attained 'through its use on evening wraps. The sketch shows a good-looking furtrimmed street costume of coppergreen velour de laine, made on decidedly simple lines. There is a large muff, with adjustable collar and cuffs of fox or skunk. The blouse has a rounded neck and a front opening at the left Bide, fastened below the bust with some flat, dull-green metal buttons. The sleeves are three-quarter length and cut in one with the blouse. The skirt 1b long and mounted to the waist with a line of evenly distributed gathers. The hem and slash to the knee are edged with fur, the end of which forms a terminating point for the drapery. The front breadths of the skirt must be cut extra long to give sufficient material to this drapery. Heavily padded embroidery in a simple conventional design is coarsely worked across the blouse front and triangular medallion that finishes the

sash end. It is done in chrome yellow, and the broad sash is of black satin. The same gown would be equally handsome developed in one of the raisin shades with fall trimmings of Australian opossum. Washington l Star. -< —-

Fur-Trimmed Street Costume of Cop-per-Green Cloth.