The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-11-19

| Miroir velvet bows in pale blue, with a
lace neck scarf. are the finish, and are
used also TO decorate the muf. which Is
Of the huge, granny variety with this
cape and muff belongs chinchilla toque,
which is trimmed with pale blue crepe
| de Chine scarf tied about the crown. and
| having fringed ends which fall upon the
| hair.
There are not so many seal coats this
| winter as In seasons past, but all Of those
| made are smart, trim.fltting garments
widely different from the clumsy AFFAIR of
long ago whose picture Is conjured UP
by the name. Chinchllla. sable, fox and
other long-haired furs are used TO trim
them. The newest seal coats are double-
breasted, and have double Medici collars
edged with narrow satin cording
Otter, which stands rain and snow better
than any other fur. is much In fashion, a.
is fisher--a dark brown fur from the snowy
north, whose use is comparatively new.
Little Elton coats with full fronts are made
of IL trimmed with ermine. the color of tho
fisher being rich enough to stand the con.
trast
Chinchilla is perhaps the favorite fur fol-
evening wraps. though, like fox, It costs
more than It really ought. The handsom,
widow. Mrs. Adolf Ladenburg, is wearing a
long chinchilla cape with draped hounce
and with hood drapery OF folds Of gray
mroir velvet carried around the shoulders,
The lining Is pink satin, and pink chiffon
frills intermixed with cream lace decorate
the inside OF the collar and cascade down
the front.
Ermine is used mainly for linings--oi
garments intended for day wear as vel
as in the evening. novelty introduced by
Miss Alice Atherton Blight, who has just
returned from Europe with many trunks
filled with Paris finerles. Is a long coat OF
gray cloth whose sweeping lines are fitted
to the figure with the accuracy of Prin-
cess dress, and which has collar and revers
Of beautiful chinchlla. This Goa <Sastens
with wrought silver buttons. and is lineN
with ermine to about the level of the hips.
Below that point-perhaps to reduce
weight, perhaps just for SarietE-the fur
is replaced by plnky-white satin.
The horse show looked as If the hunting
set were out in even fuller force than was
the case, nearly every woman present
wearing heads and bushy tails AMI .laws
enough to stamp her as the most fer 1cluus
OF Dianas. | am too much OF a rebel to
praise things which to me look sauirmy.
but they are the height of fashion.
The most beautiful boas are the :ong, |
round ones, huge in size and male OF TIA
fluffy fur of the cub bear. The muffs to
match are proportionately large, IA d are
round and plain. Next to these come fox
boas, the muffs having head at one ond
and at the other fat tail. Mrs. Oliver
Isein wore at the show a boa of the rare
and costly silver fox, fur which rises
every year in price, 1t being seldom that
more than 1000 skins are put upon the
market in one season.
The oldfashioned stone marten Is a fur
of beautiful color which this winter is
much in vogue. Marten boas are trimmed
on the ends with large chiffon iosettes
and tails of sable.
Mink is a thoroughly good fur which
r1 NIL Ntf ne
and is never ignored by the mode. A grea
many sets are being made of it--colt
muff and toque-with trimmings of the
same or OF contrasting furs.
To buy cheap furs is ordinarily like
iiinging money into the street, because
they do not wear. There Is nowadays more
temptation to experiment, however, since
the costliest sable garments are as sub.
lect TO fashions whims as the cheapest o.
cloth Jackets and lose in value by con
slant recruiting and slashing pretty
neck piece in white squirrel with lace APP
piicaticns on the collar, which will look
Well FOR year or two may be as good
value, for example, as something moro
costly which in season will be equally
out of style.
One of the handsorest horse show dress
es was worn by Mrs j. Lee Taller and
was OF pastel blue cloth. the tunic over
dress adorned with six-inch band OF
broadtail-the soft MORE fur that is taken
IRON the unborn Persian lamb At the
mead OF the fur came an inch band of baoh
velvet embroidered with jet The bodice
was made with a fur yoke outlined by
velvet and had front slightly blousiny
The fur hat was trimmed with black os-
trich plumes and rosettes of blue chiffon
Another fur trimmed dress was that of
Mrs. Albert Stevens. of reseda-green I
cloth, with the velvet underskirt Of light ,
er shade of the same color. The velvet was
shiried on cords-a proceeding not always
successful; and the bodice was short |
Elton with revers and collar of ermine
Nearly all the Horse Show dresses had
me new oS-platted back or some other ar {
ransement to give fulness q
one or the best wraps was worn by Mrs
Carter OF Philadelphia, ar>i was a lone
black velvet coat lined with white satin !
stitched about the edges with white and
having huge chinchilla collar.
An odd cape of -quartcrs length {
was of dark green velvet arranged In A
series Of tucks which were graduated ir
width from the neck to the bottom Around
the shoulders this series was interrupted
by half dozen sable skins so placed ~ t
10 look like stretched strained bodies h
whose poor little heads met in double
row or three In front. while the poor little
ails hung down in rows behind A deep =
lace hcunce around the bottom of this S
cape was OF great elegance h
A pretty Sittle cape was made of beaver.
olored veIVet shlrred around the neck and 3
shoulders, The edge was finished with S
band OF silver fox, below which fell tlny ;,
plated fr'il OF chiffon matching the vel. !,