The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-12-04
FUR TRlMMlNos.
The Fashionable Garnltures Of the Winter
Season.


Fur trimmings ARE the fashionable
garniture of the season for outside wraps
and street costumes, and have also
made their appearancei in evening dresses
Of white satin and pale tints Of rose.
yellow and blue. These trimmings are
not used merely as borders, but as
pendent fringes Of tails. in lengthwise
rows. panels, vests. plastrons, bindings.
and in full rolls down the front Of gar
ments to initiate boas. Borders vary in
width from three or four to six or eight
inches. All well-prepared borders Of
fur are now faced with muslin or silk. SO
that an amateur can sew them on by
passing the needle through the stiff fac
ing instead of through the pelt; those
who do not trust themselves to do this
send the completed garment to the fur
rier. who charges from fifty cents to one
dollar yard for sewing on the fur. Tail
trimmings made entirely of the tails of
the animal across or down the borders,
showing waves and shades of the fleece
effectively, are the most costly borders.
There are also fringes of hanging natural
tails, or of "made tails formed by
doubling the fur and pointing it below.
The valuable Russian sables for trim
ming velvet and cloth garments are
shown in tail borders at eighty-fve dol
lars yard, while the Hudson bay sables
are thirty dollars. Mink-tail borders are
in great vogue with pendant tails below,
and there are borders Of the skins
of the animals held in such favor
that all the mink tippets, victorines and
large muffs of twenty years ago are fast
being cuA up into them. These brown
furs are used not only on brown fabrics
and on seal-skins, but on cloths of any
color-green, red or blue-but they are
not effective on black. A popular trim
ming which is also exceedingly fasiOna-
able, and not very costly, is the black
marten or Alaska sable. which is now
thoroughly deodorized, and is seen on
the richest imported garments of cloth,
velvet, plush, or sealskin; it costs from
one dollar and fifty cents to ten dollars
yard. Natural beaver remains in IA
yor because it is durable colored fur of
excellent brown shades, suitable for
trimming any color except black, and is
sold plucked of all its coarse long hairs,
leaving velvet-like fleece, or else only
three-quarters plucked, when it resem-
bles fine otter; the colored beavers
called black beaver are handsome either
for black or colored garments. and are
especially liked when plucked of three
quarters of their long hairs. The black
Persian lamb, as lus'rOus as silk, is
choice wavy black fur. and is preferred
to the more curled and wOOlly- looking
with which it is often con-
founded. These curled furs and the
long, glossy black fox, the black lynx
and the cheap Russian hare-the latter
at only eighty cents a yard are
the black trimmings most used
not only for ladies in mourning, but
garments of every color. The sea otter
grows more scarce and costly each sea-
son. BroOk-Otter is less rare and is verv
handsome when natural and unplucked;
when all its coarse hairs are plucked it
can scarcely be distinguished from nat
ural plucked beaver. but is shorter in
pile, and shows white to the pelt when
blown apart, while beaver is drab or
lawn color ut the roots. Seal-skin is
how used for trimmings, and chinchilla
remains in favor for young ladies' and
children's wraps. The silver-fox with
finely tipped edges is fashionable. but is
fragile and expensive. 'COonskins have
effective gray-brown standings almost rs
handsome as fox-skins, and are much
used for young people. The light yell
ow-brown badgers skins are seen on
many imported garments. and. like nat
nral lynx, are favorite trimming with
White fox is used for |
opera cloaks and evening wraps, while
srmine is confined to Innings. Stone
furs are revived as trimmings.
md the curly gray krimmer is liked for
gray costumes and for children's wraps
and caps. A novelty is the use of brown
for borders; these are coarse,
out durable and very effective, resem-
bling the popular black marten.-Har-
,er's Bdzar.