Connecticut western news., 1879-11-19
Fur Trimmings.

Fur trimmings will be more used this winter than they have been for many years as borders for cloaks and dresses. The fashionable walking suit of satin or of satin de Lyon will be bordered with fur, and there is no trimming more suit able for heavy woolen, cloth, and velvet costumes. The single wide border, from two and half to four inches broad, is the fashionable band of fur. Beaver fur is one of the most fashionable trim mings, and is used in all it's varieties, viz., plucked, unplucked, and partially plucked, also in it's natural light brown shades, or else colored darker brown, or the jet black beaver, to which may be added the stylish silvery beaver made by sewing silver points or white hairs singly or in clusters in the pile of black beaver. When the stiff long hairs of the beaver are plucked out, 8 soft, dense velvet-like fur is left, and this is very durable in it's natural light brown shades it trims many colors as hand somely as it does black, and costs from s4 to S6 yard. The beautiful silvery beaver three inches wide costs from $5 to $8, according to the quality of the fur. Ohinchilla borders are in lovely gray shades very becoming to fair con- plexions borders of this fur are wider than others, sometimes measuring six or seven inches, and costing, when made of the least expensive Bolivia skins, from $7 to $10a yard ; those three inches wide are more generally used, and even these are $6 or $7. The exquisite light and fluffy Africa chinchilla costs $16 or SIS yard for borders only four or five inches wide. Lynx furs in light gray shades are ill great favor this winter. The Grecian lynx is long soft fleece of brownish-gray shades, while the lynx 6leute has blue tinges. These are quite effective when the pelt is cut in strips two inches wide, as the long fleece then spreads out to look four inches broad $6 to $8 is the price, according to width. The pelt of the beautiful silver-fox may be cut in half-inch strips, as the fleece is very long and as light as down but this exquisite fur is so frail that the sill yer points are easily broken and fall. The blue fox is far more durable, less costly, and very popular. The cross fox is novelty, with it's bars of dark brown across a yellow fleece. Another novelty is vicuna fur in cream-color and in yellow shades almost as deep as old gold this costs from $1.5 to S3 when the pelt is three inches wide. The sill very hare is also new this winter, and is an effective mixture of black and gray shades; when clipped perfectly even, it is dense and velvet-like. Toulitza is the name given another gray black fur, made by dusting with silver white paint the tips of black fur this is three inches wide, and $2 yard. Black marten re- mains the favo1ite of the low-pr1ced dark furs, as it costs from $1 to S2. 50 yard for effective borders that are only an inch and half wide on the pelt. The silvery black marten is far more dressy, and costs from $2.5O to BIO a yard. Among light furs the most dressy bord- l OAo OA1o oAO AOW -PA4OCO d1O buO50 Ol natural 'coon-skin in brown-gray long fleece, at 75 cents to $1. 5Oa yard. When colored and ornamented with sitvery points, these coon borders are very much used for cloth suits, and cost $3 8 yard. Colored unplucked otter is new this winter for dark borders. The sil- very otter is also very rich. and costs $4 or $5 yard. The most expensive bord- CTS are the sable, and the fsher-tail which closely resembles sable /; the latter costs from $6 to $25 yard, while Rus- sian sable is $30 or $40, according to its width. Hudson Bay sable is $lO yard when the pelt is only an inch wide.- BasGr.