The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-12-13
FUR GARMENTS AND BOAS.
Excessive Decoration Is One of the
Features of the Present Sea-
sons Display.

Fur garments and novelties in fur
neckwear are out in full bloom in the
shops, and if the variety shown is real
ly a good illustration of what is to be
worn, then no one need hesitate about
making a selection. All sorts of cape
let's, colarettes and boas figure in this
department of dress in a bewildering
array of combinations.
Two and even three kinds of fur are
worked in together, and with the addl-
ton of heads, innumerable tails and
feet. the effect is quite as easily mag
ined as described. The question of
what not to have becomes the one for
consideration very promptly after a
few moments reflection. There is
much to be said In favor of these little
novelties, as they can furnish warmth,
and if you purchase one made of only
one kind of fur, it gives an air of ele-
gance to your costume.
Combinations in fur are stunning in
the coat department where the broad
flaring collars are of fluffy long-haired
fur, chinchilla, sable or fox, on the
baby lamb and sealskin coats. In the
smaller things for the neck, the mix
lures have patchy appearance. Some
of the first-class furriers will tell you
that they are making very few of the
collarettes and little capes, boas being
in better style, The long round boas
are coming in again, huge in size, as
they are made of bearskin and fox, and
the muffs, round and plain, are proper
tionately large. In fox, muff with
head at one end and fat bushy tail
% the other is one of the novelties. An
other fox muff has head directly In
the center of the front.
Again we see the combination of vel
vet and lace on coat revers, and APP
pliques of black cloth worked in on the
body of broad tail coats; but this is sim
ply fad to promote the seasons scheme
for excessive decoration, and add more
expense where there Is enough already.
Embroidery of any sort, in fur, is never
more than passing fancy, as it is
wasted elegance in the first place, and
very poor taste in the second. A knot
of cream lace, or a jabot of soft lace
at the neck or on the muff, is always q
pretty addition, but the special craze
which supplants the lace this season
is the use of chiffon plaitings with a
tiny ruche on the edge, all matching
the fur in color. Wherever lace might
be used for frills, scarf ends and edg-
ings, the chiffon is substituted brown
chiffon for sable, and gray for chin
chilla.
Pretty little shoulder capes are made
of beaver colored velvet shirred around
the neck and down on the shoulders to
give them shape. The edge is finished
with band of silver fox, below which
falls a tiny plated frill of chiffon
matching the velvet in color. This has
narrow ruche on the edge and long
scarf ends of chiffon, also finished with
a ruche, tie in front. Sometimes these
ends are accordion plated, and again
they are simply a full straight scarf
with rounded ends, trimmed all around.
A pale blue or pink chiffon frill may be
substituted for the more somber color
on the inside of the neck. A pelerine
and mulf of chinchilla outlined with
gray chiffon frills are the daintiest
things among the fur novelties
\ stylish coat is of breitschwanz
with chnchilla collar, and one of
the Elton shapes with a full front
is made entirely of chinchilla
Breitschwanz in its natural gray color
is used this season for evening wraps,
one speciality being long cape with
shaped founce, iinedthroughout with
pink satin. Pink chiffon frills with
cream lace decorate the inside of the
collar, cover the revers and trim the
front edge, and hood drapery formed
of folds of gray mirror velvet is carried
around the shouders.-N. Y. Sun.