The Jersey City news., 1898-12-09
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There is decided fashion for furs TINS
+ may be that am more interested
In them because I am. looking for some
for myself.
Have YOU ever noticed that when one
has a personal interest In an affair." u
assumes more Importance TO us than
when the whole world of other people
has an interest in it?
The combination of furs Is as FASH
ionable this year as ever. Chinchilia ana
Persian lamb, sealskin and Persian lamb
marten and broadtail, mink and sable
are the favored combinations.
A woman asked me yesterday, did 1
advise her TO get a Persian lamb jacket
with hundred and twenty-five dollars
that she had to put in furs2 This IS a
hard question to answer. Persian
lamb jacket is the stuggest thing
woman can have for winter weather
OF course. one might object and say,
.ssealskin is better but have never
been one of those who believe in seal
skin except as trimming.
think on the edge of Persian lamb
1t is beautiful, and l think if a woman
has a sealskin coat she probably must
wear it. But / never could and prob.
ably never will see the beauty in a
sealskin coat
/ think sealskin is exquisite as the
said before for trimming. but l would
as soon see a jacket of chinchilla as a
Jacket of sealskin.
AS for the jacket of Persian lamb, it
is exceedingly handsome and decidedly
warm. Lined with white satin it makes
an admirable wrap for dress OCCASIONS
or for the theatre but the question
comes in of the sameness of it.
If a woman puts her money in fur
Jacket she must wear it every time she
goes out for any affair, and she always
.ooks the same. That is all right for
one season, because everybody has one
dress for occasions and wears it out.
even the richest women. But the second
season and the third season woman
will feel she must wear that jacket be-
cause she has put so much money in it.
No matter how pretty the coat or bodice
to her cloth gown, it win never show
because it is already under that jacket.
OF course. alterations In cut and fit
make the wrap into anything desired in
the way of jacket, but it remains al
ways a jacket.
Now IL woman puts her money into
handsome collarette. which stretches
over the shoulders, goes well around the
neck. has a stole in front, she does not
hide her bodice and she can always show
the change Of gown from year to year.
yet she is sufficiently warm for or
climate
II women have a great deal of money.
then the Persian lamb jacket can be
INDUCED in as a luxury, but if woman
only has the money for some handsome
piece Of fur. it seems to me more ad-
visabie that she should purchase thing
that will stand the seasons changes.
It is like putting $50 into a bright blue
tailor gown. One gets so tired of it In
two months, that one sympathizes with
ones friends for being tired of seeing it.
The new collarettes are exceedingly
broad over the shoulders; go to point
in the back, cover the chest and have
long stole ends that reach to the muff
The storm collars are usually fastened
with many tails of fur.
saw one yesterday whose collar and
shoulder yoke were of broadtail, the
great founces about it Of marten, the
were the stoles and the muff 1t was a
forever and day.
This fashion of combining furs gives
an opportunity to many women who can
not buy a new piece outright.
Many of the new Persian lamb jackets
have a collar and revers of chinchilla,
and / saw the trick of an economical
woman's skill yesterday in collar of
black marten faced with chinchilla. She
had the two pieces left from handsome
gowns, and with piece of interlining
and some milliner's wire fashioned a
lovely collar and revers. The gray was
On the outside away from the face, leav-
ing the black to throw the complexion
into relief
Never were the collars higher: never
were muffs bigger None of the new
muffs are of fancy shape. Those affairs
that were fluted with many ribbons and
colored interlinings. and lots of flowers
have vanished. The big, round old-fash-
toned muff such as one sees in the pic
lures Of Vigee LIE Brun are used today
Chinchilla and Persian lamb trim very
many of the handsome gowns Especial
~ pretty are the cuffs and storm collars
of fur that are applied on eolored silk
waists. It is an old trick, this use of
fur for house gown but it is done
with many Of the ball gowns, and in a
number of the new house wrappers.
We do not call them tea gowns any
more. don't know why.
But the new house wrappers which
serve number Of indoor purposes are
very beautiful and very comfortable.