The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-01-14

made moth ana lnSect-pf0Ot than wool
or even silk-quilted and wadded or
f1eece-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, if well chosen
and bought from 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-
dium length fur garments. The Judic
Is one of the varieties of medium length
seal wraps. but, viewed from the front,
It looks like long cloak. 1t fits very
close, and is curved over the tournure
in the back. while the points extend
nearly to the bottom of the dress in
front They, as well as the back, which
measures about twenty-five inches from
the waist-line to the bottom, are fringed
with sealskin balls alternating with
the back being curved up sleeve-like to
go over the arms at the elbows, some
what like sleeveless dolman visite.
Another very handsome medium length
fur dolman is of black Alaska sable,
friDged with tails of the same. One of
the most comfortable and practical of
all winter garments is the standard
sealsan or otter sacques, forty-two
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est weather those who can afford more
than one fur wrap choose long New
markets, raglans, and ulsters of seal
and whoever is exposed by choice or
necessity TO winter in the isotherm.
of this climate, should by all means
possess such 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 in demand already, practical
women choosing them for general use
TO any other midwinter wrap.on account
OF their convenience OF being put on
or of, and also for the reduced prices
at which they are sold. Those lined
with mink are preferred bv 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 mut1s 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 sacIues and short mantles
trimmed with either feather bands or
bands and tails of black otter, brown
beaver. or 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 or
compOses the entire wrap are 4 feature
in this season, 5 wraps of all kinds. Cloth
boots faced and .foxed with kid are
again worn, and shoes laced on the side
as we'll 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,
tichus, 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 one
at home be sure not to get a pattern
with the high-shoulder effect, for that
style is no longer in vogue. The shoul-
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 stufing,
stiffening, or paddening is used either
tor the shoulders OF wraps or dresses.