The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-15

hair or Of goats hair. Turs are more
easily put off and on han cloth wraps.
They can be more eflectually aired and
made moth and insect-proof than wool
or even silk-quilted and wadded or
fleece-lined garments. They are far
more beautiful, and can be worn with
dressy silk and velvet or plain cloth or
novelty wool costumes at pleasure. In
the end they are cheaper, il well chosen
and bought from Il first class furrier or
dry-goods house whose standing insures
"a tirst-class fur department. For the
first of the season there are exceedingly
short wraps of fur in attractive forms
and variations of the dolman visite.
Seal is the favorite fur for these, and
otter and beaver bands and trimming.
The real or simulated tails of the ami
mails whose fur trims the garment are
frequently seen on short, long, and me-
dunn length fur garments. The Judic
is ole %; tn. varieties of medium length
seal wraps. but. viewed from the front,
1t looks like a long cloak. ID fits very
close, and is curved over the tournurc
in the back, while the points extend
nearly to the bottom of the dress in
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measures about TWENTY-FIVE inches from
the waist-line TO the bottom. are fringed
with sealskin balls alternating with
Alaska sable tails. There are no sleeves.
the back being curved mp slccve-like to
go over the arms at the elbows. some
what like Il sleeveless dOlman visiic.
Another very handsome medium length
fur dolman is of black Alaska sable.
fringed with tails of the same. One of
the most comfortable and practical of
all winter garments is the standard
sealskin or otter sacques, fOrty-two
inches in length; but for the very cold
est weather those who can afford more
than one fur wrap choose long New
markets. raglans, and listers of seal
and whoever is exposed by choice OF
necessity to a winter in the isOthcrm.
OF this climate. should by all means
possess such a garment if within the
reach of her yearly allowance for dress.
The fur-lined circulars are no longer
strictly fashionable garments. but like
the standard 42-inch length seal sacQues,
they are i'm demand already. practical
women choosing them for general use
to any other midwinter wrap.on account
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or off, and also for the reduced prices
ut which they are sold. Those lined
with mink are preferred by economical
buyers, as they are the most durable and
the warmest. Beaver muffs are the first
favOrites for young girls, but seal and
seal-plush mufls are also much in favor.
while pretty muffs, in the form of reti-
cules, come with Paris hats, matching
the same in materials and trimmings.
Seal plush sacgues and short mantles
trimmed with either feather bands or
bands and tails of black otter, brown
beaver,o " Alaska sable, are sold in large
numbers to choice customers for the in
termediate season. The real or imita-
ton tails of animals whose fur trims OIL
composes the entire wrap are a feature
in this seasons wraps of all kinds. Cloth
boots faced and foXed with kid are
again worn, and shoes laced on the side
as well as over the instep are regaining |
popular favor. Half boots are preferred
to slippers for indoor wear. and are
made dressy with bows of ribbon fire.
quently edged with steel or jet, placed
between the toe and instep. Capes,
fichus, and pelerines of fur or of velvet
plush or heavy broche and matelasse,
and trimmed with fur, remain in favor;
but if you mediate making such a one
at home be sure not to get a pattern
with the high-shoulder effect, for that
style is no longer in vogue. The shout
ders are only slightly raised in the most
fashionable garments, but the shoulder
seams remain very short, and the sleeve
is held a little full at that point in set
ting it into the arm-hole, but no stuffing,
s~tiffening. o paddening is used either
for the shoulders of wraps or dresses.