Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1916 — Matched Sets of Velvet and Fur [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Matched Sets of Velvet and Fur

Every season presents us with matched millinery sets and usually they are combinations of velvet and fur. The neckpiece, muff and hat to match will set off the plainest of frocks or suits with an elegance equal to almost any requirement for afternoon wear. In the set shown in the picture mole-colored velvet and moleskin fur are put together with a great deal of cleverness and originality. Plain bands of moleskin and long tabs of velvet lined with satin form the hat, the muff and the neckpiece. The tabs are lengths of velvet cut into shallow points at one end. For tlie neckpiece a band of moleskin forms the standing collar and a velvet tab is gathered to it at the front and back. The turban has a band of moleskin about the coronet and one of the velvet tabs (wired along the sides)

draped over the crown, It is decorated with a pretty little cockade of silver which is set flat against tile coronet. The flat muff is covered with velvet and bordered with fur at each side. A velvet tab is shirred with several parallel rows of shirring, along one end, where it is sewed to the muff. The addition of the tab to the muff brings it into the scheme of the set but serves no other purpose. Turbans, or small hats, with cape collars and muffs to match, are made of all the shorthaired furs. Hudson seal, Alaska seal, ermine, kolinsky, squirrel, and, above all, moleskin, serve for high enveloping collars and short fanciful capes. These furs, bought in “plates” or bandings, are not hard to handle, and the handsome small matched set is not too difficult for the home dressmaker.