Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1887 — The Rage for Furs. [ARTICLE]

The Rage for Furs.

New Tork Evening Post. , Fur will be the. craze of the winter season just before us. It is already to be found every where on toilet. There are imported plush dinner and theater gowns, with heart-shaped corsages out-iirred-with darkTur, bfrff"dresses nr fatp ncs both heavy and light, oddly enriched by bands of fur. Tea-gowns are garnitured with appropriate trimmings, and visites, bonnets turbans, and round hats are fur bordered. There is also a semi-low-necked Russian corsage called the “Marie Leczinski,” which hasabtnd of Russian sable around the square-cut opening. There are also expensive dress-skirts of inr. lined with seal brown surah, these at prices which render them far beyond the ordinary purse. Seal skin garments are greatly improved in shape, being fitted more perfectly t© the form. They are also fuller in the back, to hang well over the -tournure, are mostly double breasted, and have a less bulky appeal ance over the arms, the sleeves being fitted more snugly. Short mantles in seal are made in all the fashionable shapee for velvet or plu-th wraps. These visites, sling-sleeved pelerines, Russian matinees with long panel-shaped fronts, and other short confections, are much liked because they afford great warmth above the waist, where extra warmth is most needed, yet they are so tight as not to prove cumbersome, as the long seal paletots, etc., are apt to. The prettv, undyed seal jackets for young ladies’ wear are very stylhh in their golden gray or golden brown cloth, There will be no great changes as to the kinds of fur worn Amcng the long-haired furs are monkey skin in deep raven black, lynx and black marten, or Alaska sable, as it is otherwise calle’d. Both are dark in color, Qecian lynx, the long-haired fur, light, with a yellowish tinge, is a popular lar. Black fox is an elegant long haired iur much used upon Paris costumes .braided in black. Hudson Bay sables are still higher priced than black fox in the finer grades, yet not so expensive as the Russian sables, which are the superb wear of the highly favored of fortune alone.