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and are not generally fashionable.


clear gray color upon the back, soften
ing to a grayish white beneath. 1t Is
used for muffs, tippets, Innings to cloaks
and pelisses, and trimmings, and is most
becoming to young ladies and girls. A
chinchilla muff and boa cost from $50
to $50, and are warranted by furdealers
to ':nlake any lady look young" Ermine
has no longer a considerable market
here. For street wear it has been en-
tirely given up, except for children. 1t
is ftfully used to line opera-cloaks, and
some OF the principal furriers are endea-
voring to put it for that purpose into
more extensive sale. Mink is as fash
ionable as it ever was outside Of New
York, but no one in thescity buys it. All
mink furs, taken in the right season, are
durable, bat they quickly fade. New
York and Canada mlnks are the darkest
and best, and sets of these, which once
we're sold for 1925 to $3.50, can now be
bought for 500. The fur of the skunk,
described By the trade as the Alaska sa-
bic, and suddenly popularized a few
years ago, is still in fashion. When it
was first introduced even its vile smell
could not repulse its admirers, and now
that process has been discovered for
completely deodorizing it, it will con-
tinue to sell because of its glossy beauty
and its cheapness. EngIish-dyed furs
of the American lynx are equally liked.
They are black and handsome, but frail.
4 single season will finish a set of them,
which, like best set Of Alaska sable, is
cheap at $50 to $25.
SEALsKIN
has been said to have lost its hold upon
the American market. This is not true.
No other fur can take it's place for cloaks
and ladies' jackets. Even sea-otter,
which, dyed in London. is much hand
somer than seal for muffs and boas, is
too cumbersome for sacques. In fact,
sealskin is in great demand this fall for
sacques-in greater demand than ever
for large and expensive ones. They are
made larger and longer, and in more
graceful shapes than heretofore, and,
though the most of them are plain, some
are splendidly trimmed with bands of
the fur of the black and silver fox. sea-
otter, brook-otter and beaver. They have
become comparatively cheap. The most
beautiful sacques Though perhaps not
the most durable), made of ''pup Shet-
lands" skins, sell for $500. The best
Alaska sacques bring $125 to $3.50. Seal
sacques, American dyed, can be bought
for $50, $50, 800. They look well for
time, but the largest New York houses
decline to invest in them because they
will not last. Seal sets of the first quail
ity (nuffs and tippets) are offered by the
Gunthers at SO and $50. If fur ware
houses were already stocked with seal
skins, those prices would be raised in
view of the diminution of the produc-
ton The ruthless murder of seals in
Shetland has almost depopulated their
aDOU0S, anu Tie ueCludllCu Oh scans, DCtu
young and old, which is going on in
Alaska must shortly arrest the propaga
ton there. The numbers of seals which
are found in other localities specified
near the commencement of this article
are relatively small.
One of the most comfortable and lux
urious uses to which furs are put is the
lining of warm winter silken wraps. ST.
cilienne wraps, fur-ined, are even better
than silk ones and more lasting. Sicili-
enne does not shine like silk after years
wear, and it is now largely imported by
furriers. Sicilienne sacques and silk
dolmans are lined with the skins of ST.
berian Squirrels, whose beautiful gray
backs and lighter colored bellies make a
pretty shifting contrast. Such sacques,
with border of squirrel edging, are set
off by fancy oxidized clasps, and are fix
ed at $125 to $3.50.
QUANTITIES OF FURS
are now used for trimmings. The man.
ufacture of fur trimmings is greater than
it has ever been, partly because the
dealers in cloth garments have adopted
them as fashion and partly because
peOple of moderate and small means can