Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11
FUR GARMENTS.
All About Fichus and Pelerines, Muffs al
Collars, With a Word About IrOy

All About Fichus and Pelerines, NIuffs and
Collars, With Word About Brown
Furs.
The novelty in small seal capes is
called ichu, Eand consists of scarf
mantle that merely reaches to the waist
line behind, and has half-long pointed
fronts. 1t is edged with seal-skin
fringe, and has high standing collar
fastened by fanciful clasp. The new
seal pelerines so popular with young
ladies, to give needed warmth over
closely fitted velvet or cloth redingotes
or sacques, are now made with the
high-shouldered effects, and are of even
length all around, barely escaping the
waist line. These are by all means
confined to seal-skin, but are especially
liked in otter and beaver to match
trimmings on fur garments. Mink
pelerines are also in fashion, and are
especially valuable when made of the
dark tails of the animal. Russian sable
pelerines of great beauty are shown
made of tails entirely, and costing
$3.50, though others of lighter sable are
sold for $500. The general choice in
these capes is for seal, beaver, Astra-
khan, or mink, and in these inexpensive
furs they cost from $40 upward, and
afford great comfort, as they cover adj
mirably the delicate chest and shout
der-blades, and are of very light
weight.
Muffs are sold to match the capes
just described, and when made round
are not larger than those of last year.
Flat muffs are now commended, and
are slightly curved to hold the hands
nicely. Sometimes these have
close short fur in the back,
with different long fleece
in all the part seen in front, thus the
front will be silver-fox, and the back of
seal-skin, or else chinchilla muff will
have merely silk back. The long
chasuble and scarf-like collars remain
in vogue, and with muff complete the
set of fur; but it is now more usual to
trim the outer garment with fur around
the neck. There are, however, pretty
little collars of fur with square lappets
in front made of natural beaver, and
costing only 81 or So; seal-skin, krim-
mer, coon, leopard, and the black
Persian lamb are also used for these
small collars, for the large collarettes,
for echarpes or scarfs, and the long
chasubles; among black furs those of
the hUSS1dn mare are CHOSEN IOr mex
pensiveness, of the monkey-skln for Cd
dity, of Persian lamb for those wearing
mourning, and of the luxurious black
fox for richness. Satchel muffs that
are useful shopping bags with handle
are shown in seal, otter, and Astrakhan
furs.
From what has already been said
it will be seen that brown furs are
again in favor, and those who
have taken care of their royal sables
and useful mink now find their re-
ward. The pelerine cape and muff
of Russian sable is one of the luXuries
of the winter, and those who can af-
ford it delight in wide borders of
sable, and even in lining of
this valuable fur, some of the costli-
est wraps of the year being made of
black velvet in the shape of the Rus
sian circular, and lined throughout
with Russian sable. The mink trim
mings are also very effective on cloth
and other wool garments, especially
when the material is brown, as it is
doubtless the fancy for golden brown
that has revived the use of these furs.
The rare sea-otter is one of the fash
ionable brown furs, but the brown
trimming in most general use is nat
ural beaver, and the plucked beavers,
some of which are only partly plucked,
and also the colored brown beavers
Hayper's Bazaar.