The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-09-06
A Season of Furs.

The coming winter will be season
of furs. Last year was marked by their
pr dominance, but they will be more
used than ever this year, and it is pre-
dicted that the climax will not be rerch-
ed until the following year. In fact, it
takes three or four years to reach this
point in such luxuries. The demand
increases with prosperity and the effect
is an increase in price.
There will undoubtedly be gradual
increase in price as sealskins grow
scarcer, which they are doing every
year, in spite of the measures adopted
by the United States government to
check the decrease of seals.
1t Is also true, as in other years, that
as the season advances the price OF
sealskins and other furs will advance
about 10 per cent, so that it is to the
advantage of women who intend to buy
to do so at once and save the usual rise
in price and, at the same time, be able
to select the choicest skins.
Persian lamb will be one of the most
popular furs and, for valid reasons,
will advance in price. 1t is the only
real mourning fur and as nearly every
family of prominence in Europe will be
in mourning through the death of Queen
Victoria and the Dowager Empress OF
Germany or as result of the Boer war,
it will be prominently the fur used in
Europe. This will cause scarcity and
and consequent increase in price.
Mink and sable and bear fur will be
trihe higher than last year, the most
marked advance being in the latter.
The Persian lamb, Hudson Bay and
Russian sables, blended marten, mink
and bear will be the popular furs OF the
season and the various kinds of fox will
be as fashionable as they were lastyear.
There is a difference in opinion among
the furriers regarding the price of lynx
and fox skins, some anticipating an ad-
vance, while others think they will be,
perhaps, a trife lower than previously.
STYLES will be distinctly American this
year, dealers asserting that the foreign
STYLES are not accepted by American
women. The London fashions are too
heavy and cumbersome and the Paris
styles are extreme.
The Persian lamb and the sealskin
Jackets will be the same style as those
of the latter part of last season. Per-
sian Jackets in combination with hand
some mink, blended marten or Hudson
Bay sable are also shown among the
most fashionable garments. The popu-
lar length will be from % to "a inches,
perhaps trif1e longer for tall women.
The three-quarters coat is shown shis sea-
son, A particularly stylish garment is
known as the rigoletto. The coat is
double breasted, also the waist. La
most garments the plain coatsleeves Is
shown, although few coats have
sleeve that is finished with slight flare
on small rolling cuff of another kind
of fur
| The tendency IN hne goods IS 10 make.
them longer. In small furs, the fashion
will be similar to that of late last sea-
son. Small neckscarfs will be worn.
The newest style collars are trimmed
with long tails. An attractive scarf is
made of Persian lamo trimmed with
diminutive Persian heads and long
streamers of mink. A novelty is very
long sable scarf, trimmed with fourteen
tails and is fastened at the neck with
large buckle. A novelty collarette is
fashioned of seal and trimmed with
number OF sable tails, 20 inches long:
There is revival of the old-fashioned
boa. 1t is coming principally in bear
and few other high priced furs