Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-10

mains faithful to her simple black aIgret.
her hair Is waved compactiy, but not too
much so, and 1t has moderniZed Louis
cachet that Is very fetching.
L always find 1t difficult at this time of
the year not to talk of furs. 1t is not my
meter to be depressing, so / will omit
statistics and confine myself today to one
OF the many branches of this subject
muffs Nothing In the way of furs is
more attractive or more becoming addition
to feminine attire than this useful article.
l really feel that the muff of today ought
to be made the size and shape of a drain
pipe for the benefit of those who are de-
termfned to wear short sleeves In the street
feel 1t In my bones prophetically and not
rheumat1caliy that the winter is to be
severe one
My theory is that the muff of today Is
adorable. 1t is also large and has steadily
been growing in size for the last few years
but the larger 1t gets the better 1 like 1t.
1t cannot be too large for me. When one
is tall one can carry or a muf of gener-
Gus proportions. This brigand method of
procedure cannot be practiced by a very
small woman, but there is not q doubt, that
a good large muff looks expensive and
smart, and both of these things the right
minded woman, be she tall or short. aims at
looking. There Is a great point about the
large, fiat muff that does not occur to
everybody. The large round muff must
have both sides alike necessarily, but the
fiat one, If at all of the draped or pic
turesque order, present to the world
face Of sable, chinchilla or ernine. while
its back may be made of harmonizing veil
vet or cloth. l am having my own sables
rearranged and five nice skins, that would
only make moderately large muff If used
on both sides, are to be mounted on a
muff designed from the one I have just
suggested. 1t is to be fiat, rather wider at
the base than at the top, showing each
skin as If it had been carelessly laid upon
IT. And, by the way, this arrangement is
a new fad of the furrier's.
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The smart shops in the Rue de Ia Paix
are showing fox muffs in combinations of
two coIors. They are new, but l do not
like them; there is too strong contrast to
look well, especially at distance, the eff
feet being too patchy. And beg of you, If
you have any idea of adopting any of these
ideas advanced about fur and fabric COM
binations, as you value your artistic soul.
please let them match or at least tone In
color. Before talking Of other articles of
dress let me say that big draped muff of
velvet with sables or mink tails introduced
at the ends is very pretty. And to be IN
sistent and come back to the combination
affair, point in it's favor is that the rub
bing of good skins on the invisible side is
avoided, and 1t is friction, not use, that
ruins peltry.
Leaving the giddy heights of expensive
furs, there are plenty of varieties that wear
well and look well and are, after ALL only
comparatively cheap-sueh as Persian lamb,
broadtai gray astrakhan, the better sort
of squirrel, silver fox and bear A nice
thing to remember when purchasing mex
pensive furs is that IL bulk, as it were, they
have a certain distinction. 1t Is only In
the small muffs and scrappy little ties with
horrible cheap cord ornaments and tails