The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-22

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them early in the season.
Things have come to a strange pass
when you put or your winter furs in the
Summer time, yet this has long been
the style in Paris, and the custom is
gradually creeping over to this country.
1t seems pity, the French say, to
spend so much money upon your furs
and then to put them away. "My muff
and boa cost $1,0OO,' said French So
ciety woman; "why should I conceal it
in camphor for two-thirds Of the year9'
This is the custom nearly all over
kept in good order to wear all the year
around. In the winter time they are
- donred with a heavy suit, and in the
summer they are worn with lighter
wraps. It is wholly question Of Gus
tom, this matter of wearing furs, and
women who own handsome fur gar
nents feel that they have really no
right to deprive themselves of these
articles thru so many months Of the
yesr.
And that is why, if you 60 to Lenox
- these fall days, or to the White noun
tains, or to high resorts anywhere in
the west. you will see the women dressed
gowns, which still have touch Of sum-
1ner about them, for the days are warm
ct noontime, but around the shoulders
there is thrown fur cape or deep
collarette, or ore Of the big, fiat boas
Of the season.
- It is the style, Of course, to wear old
furs, and women who have he1rlooms
are proud to bring them out year after
year and to wear them on occasion. But
It is very nice to own a set of up-to-
date furs, and that is the reason why
women Of fashion who can afford the
money are prone to invest year after
year in the latest new articles in this
line. They pride themselves on fur
= collection just as they do on string
of pearls.
"What does a set Of furs costY' Is
the first question: woman asks when
she starts out to buy; and well may she
consider the question of price, for it is
cerned. The truth of the matter is
p that furs are ridiculously high, and
they do not seem inclined to come down
in price. You can clothe your fingers
in diamonds for less cost than you
can dress your neck in furs, and you
can buy diamond dog collar for just
about the same price which a real hand
some coat and muff will cost you. Never
were furs so dear. But, on the other
| hand, they were never so nice, and
/ never so becoming; never so fashion
able and never so desirable.
Of course, there is a grain Of con-
ISOLATION for the woman Of limited purse
in the fact that fur limitations can be
picked out very cheaply ard, as they
4 are prettily made and nicely executed
& turnout, they will answer every pur-
pose. II she does not want to buy fur
Il limitations she can buy real furs of the
ID cheaper grade, and these, with few
sions, will carry her very we'll thru the
winter
The new boas are quite distinctive
and perhaps it might be said that they
are different from the boas Of previous
seasons. The majority Of them are fiat
! about eight inches wide and are long
enough to go around the neck and hang
l far down the front. A handsome squir
rel boa about two yards long, fiat ant
| lined with gray satin, costs something
1 like $50, with the muff thrown in. But
/ if you are not too critical, you can ge
4 it for little less if you will take I
\ cheaper grade of squirrel, or you cal
/ go higher if you want softer and NOR
+ Eilvery shade.
| There is one pretty thing about fur
| this season, and this is that they ar
| lined in very artistic fashion. Tn
| style is to match the silk to the fur
! and to make it harmonize as we'll a
4 possible in every way. For instance
/ gray squirrel is lined with slate era,
\ silk and is trimmed with gray sill
!. fringe, and ermine is lined with crear
~~ color.
Sable has it's lining Of wood colore,
f satin and mink is lined with golde1
brown. It is all question Of hue, an,
the woman who is having her furs line
should by all means be accurate as t
/. the shade Of satin which she uses wit
them.
i. i. \
% It is pretty season for the worna
who has old furs on hand, for she ca
take an old sealskin coat, so old tina
it looks all faded and yellow in spot
and she can have it refined with
deeper shade of satin. She can the
! trim it by setting handsome new sabl
collar around the neck and a pair Q
, sable cuffs at the wrist or at the elbow
in with this she will want a large fla
- seal muff shaped like granny muf
. And then she will want a sealskin toou,
/. The sealskin toques, by the way, d.
/. serve a word all by themselves, for the
!, are very beautiful. They are made G
4 rather bright silk and they are built $