Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1918 — For Outer Wear, Short Fur Coats [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

For Outer Wear, Short Fur Coats

Either for the sSke of change in style or because long coats are somewhat btffdefisome 7 to wear, or because of conservation in everything, this is to be the winter of short fur coats. They are recommended as a substitute for wool; no less a personage then the head of a great association of furriers maintains that they are really cheaper thin wool and that it is a matter of patriotism to wear them. A fur coat will outwear any other, usually surviving several seasons, and, considered in that light, it is a cheaper coat than wool, worn only for a season. Inexpensive skins are recommended for the utility coats that are expected to become popular. Natural muskrat, natural and dyed squirrel, dyed hare are inexpensive as furs go. Even H-fad-son seal which is dyed muskrat—cannot be classed as expensive. Its rich appearance associates it with other more expensive pelts used for trim-

ming it, and for collars and cuffs, so that accessories cost as much as the coats themselves. This is the case of the handsome short coat pictured. It has a broad collar, deep cuffs and band at the bottom of lovely martin fur and is typical in its lines of the fashionable short coats in other furs. There is nothing so comfortable for cold climates as the fur coat, but if one is not obliged to consider zero weather, fur capes and wide fur scarfs commend themselves as more graceful and wearable than coats. This season there are those new capes, that are a sort of compromise between cape and scarf which have already won many devotees. And always there is the scarf and muff set, far above the whims of fashion, showing no abate* ment In its popularity.