The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-01-11
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS
FURS THE FEATURE.
Notes From Paris Tell How the
Handsome Pelts Are Used.
Photo by Clinedinst, Washington.

Handsome Pelts Are Used.
Furs costly and rare are featured
this season in Paris as they never
were before. In fact, the cheaper
kinds have practically disappeared
from the furriers,. Happy it the
woman VINO has an old sealskin sack
or a mink cape that can be cut over
to make one of the fashionable boil
eros. Sealskins, even if they are a
tritie worn, can be patched UP with
collars, cuffs, revers or pockets of
other and newer furs until they are
quite stunning in appearance and are
in the height of the mode. Collars
and revers of sable, chinchilla and er-
mine, white fox and even mink may
be applied to seal garments with sue
cess. When a sealskin, Persian lamb,
'caracal, otter or sable bolero is be-
yond the means of an ambitious wo-
man, she can substitute a fur trim
med velvet one. The velvet coat
makes a modish wrap and, lined with
handsome brocade, is also very cozy.
Ermine is the most popular fur
with moneyed folk. Ermine will be
much in evidence at the coronation
ceremonies, and the furriers doubt
less wish to experiment with it's pos
sibilities before trying it on so mo-
mentous an occasion.
White fox follows ermine in popu-
1arity with the opulent. The pelage
of the poor little white fox of the arc
tic regions makes a particularly
handsome trimming. So many white
skins are used as to indicate that
there must have been a terrible
slaughter of these little creatures,
which are among the picturesque
features of the snow covered land
scapes. The hair of the white fox is
long and silky and makes a luxurious
finish for a garment for outdoor wear.
Chinchilla boeleros and scarfs are
much exploited, but chinchilla is too
expensive for the real fur ever to be
used to any great extent in the max
ing of long coats. Chinchilla, like err
mine, looks we'll applied to the softer
robe fabrics, but it's limitations are
too often put to that use. These are
very numerous, and while the ma
terial is fresh and new it looks very
well, but a little wear soon betrays
the counterfeit. Ermine and chin
chilla stoles are scarcely within the
means of most people, for these furs
in the better qualities are not sold for
a song.
One of the oldest specimens of the
turned over collar appeared on a
a-hN oh hxr
Maria Pia, of Portugal, while driv-
ing on the Faubourg st. Antoine. The
base of the collar was made of silk
studded with tiny jewels, the collar,
which rose well in the back, being
shaped something like an old-fash-
Toned ruff. The revers on the coat
were not prominent, but the sleeves
at the wrist repeated the flare shown
on the collar. a large muff of chin
chilla was carried with the coat.
Muffs are now rather fiat and f1imsy,
= all stiffening in the lining being
avoided.
AN opera cloak of chinchilla made
early in the winter for stage favor
lite, was cut upon lines that any
woman might easily initiate in vel
vet. The sleeves were large, loose
and dolman-like. They were trimmed
with broad bands of sable. A very
full collar encircled the shoulders.
from which the lines of the cloak fell
straight to the ground.
For those who desire an adjustable
touch of the fashionable chinchilla
on a coat, one of the high collars and
pointed Jokes made for the neck, of a