Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 319, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1920 — Diversity in Matched Sets. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Diversity in Matched Sets.

The season has brought out a great many matched 'sets made up of collar and muff, with hat to match, or neckpiece and muff with cuffs or bag to match, or simply of neckpiece and muff. The selection of articles in the set depends upon the character of the fur or the fur fabric used and the individual taste of the wearer, and fur fabrics, have made an exercise of individual taste much less difficult than it used to be, for the difficulties in sewing and matching furs are eliminated where fur fabrics are used. \ Matched sets will interest the woman who likes garments that are out of the' ordinary and that will reflect her own taste, as well as the thrifty ones who wish to make over garments that have outlasted the styles in which they were made. The handsome and rich-, looking set shown above, whose deep cuffs help to make it so cozy-looking, presents no difficulties that the average needlewoman will fear to face, even if a fur is used for it In a f ur fabric it Is easy sailing for the home dressmaker. This set is made of kerami, one of the most beautiful of those

marvelous fur fabrics that are the glory of the looms. We have become accustomed to fur fabrics that deceive the eye, and take them as a matter of course. In kerami the mimicry of nature goes below the surface, for the pile has a bronze background below its black tip. The brown is glimpsed through the black when the pile is down, after the manner of great and mighty nature in the pelts of animals. Pattern makers in all the standard pattern concerns provide patterns for neckpieces and cuffs, and retail shops carry muff beds already Milled, in various sizes and shapes, for the convenience of those who undertake the making of sets at home. resembles broadtail—a far that shares honors with ermine and sable for elegance —and excels all Others in dignity. It has a glossy surface, reflecting the light unequally, ac* cording to the direction of the hairs (or “pile” in a fabric), affording an incomparably beautiful play of light and shadow. Owing to its origin many women are averse to wearing it, but the manufactured fur fabric relieves one from qualms of conscience.