The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-25
FURS A FEATURE OF DRESS.
NEVER MORE WORN, NEVER MORE
CHARMING AND VARIED.
Ar Unendlng stream OF Neck Furs and
Murs Seen where Fashionable women
Gather, Though Good Furs ARE En-.
penslNc- The Seasons New Models.

habitant have the New York furriers and
importers bid 30 extravagantly for the
trade OF the feminine crowd which Horse
Show week brings together as they have
this year, and IL n may Judge by the
quantity and quality Of the 1urs which
women are wearing the bidding. has not
been in vain.
Fun coats Of the most delightful designs
and often OF the c~ostliest pelts are dis
played and worn in great numbers, and
AZ for the small furs, the ueckpieces and
nufs, there seems literally to be no end to
their variety and beauty. Where all the
women get the money to buy these beautiful
little dress accessories Is a problem, for
good furs are more expensive than ever
this year, yet such furs as were once sup
POSED to be the ~rerogative of the wealthy
few are now worn by all sorts and conditions
OF women.
Perhaps that is putting it too strongly,
for there are plenty of cheap furs still in
evidence and plenty Of women who must
wear such furs or none at all; but the fact
remains that a most astonishing number
of women among the Horse Show crowds
sported genuine ermine and chinchilla, and
even sable white breitschwan z and mink of
good quality we're as plentiful as black
berries in June.
Possibly the Incomes are no larger than
formerly, but the temptations are stronger.
one can readily believe that after viewing
an unending stream of neck furs and muns
In the Garden or on Fifth avenue.
Surely never before were these small
furs so charming and never were they
shown in such variety. Some Of the shapes
are freakish; but, on the whole, the de-
signers have shown good taste as well as
fertile invention, and every woman can
ii d furs both beautiful and becoming if
she has the money to pay for them.
The small cravat, soft, crushable and
made OF supple skins, such as ermine,
chinchilla, breitschwanz, &C., liz a prac-
tioal and smart little neck fur, and,
being small, it requires 90 little fur that
IT need not be extravagantly expensive.
These fur cravats vary in length and in
the fashion in which they are worn.
Some merely tie once at the side. Others
have fastenings that hold the cravat without
tying, and a beautiful jewelled ornament,
q knot OF velvet or lace or a tiny animal
head conoeals the fastening.
Sometimes the cravats are so long that
the ends fall for ward and backward over
the shoulder and are trimmed in fringe or
in lace. A fringe of little fur balls attached
by silk cords is a modish finish, but a chenille
fringe in the color Of the fur is quite correct,
and, especially upon ermine or chinchiIla,
rich lace frills give good effects.
One long narrow cravat Of ermine had
toward the ends little bands Of the fur
crossing the cravat and finished at each
end with beautiful small buttons Of pear
and rhinestones, while at the ends a fringe
Of small ermine tails fell over a frill Of fine
lace. Occasionally one finds a cravat OF one
fur trimmed with fur of another kind, though
the fancy for combining furs which was
s~o'pronounced a few seasons ago has died
out. A Cravat OF chinchilla may have a
knot OF ermine or the ermine knot may
appeal on a cravat OF breitschwanz, and
the touch OF white is often becoming.
Straight collars of fur, hugging the neck
closely and completed by little tabs falling
in rabat fashion in front, are among the small
neck pieces, but ara hardly so practical or
becoming as the cravat. These little pieces
are usually held by ornamental buttons
set on each side of the collar and con-
nected by loops of silk or of braid and
some models receive considerable cachet
from the use of most attractive buttons.
Sometimes, too. tabs faced with con-
trasting color or embroidery are turned
back from the little standing collar and
make the fur more becoming. Such tabs
were used, also, upon a smart stole Of brett
schwanz which is sletched here and which
ran around the shoulders in fat pelerine
fashion below the snug standing collar
and fell in stole ends in the front.
Pelerine, stole and scarf ef ects are all
we'll represented, with the capenke pelerine
lines TAX ing precedence among the French
models, though they are never so youthful
a. the scarf and cravat neck furs. A fat
wide collar OF ermine, such az is shown
IN one of the cuts, with double. overlapping
stole ends falling from the collar in front
and with trimming Of little ermine tails,
is more youthful han the capelike p~elerine,
but some remarkably handsome examples
Of the latter style are being worn.
One Of these seen in association with a
beautiful costume OF brown chiffon cloth
and chiffon broadcloth of the same tore
was OF the finest mink, exquisite in color
and in quality, and from long stole ends
in front, sloped out over the shoulders to
fall in a deep, rounded cape quite to the
waist line in the back. Other shapes some
what similar. but running down to a PORT
in the front as " ell as in the back, and rip
ping in full folds from the shoulders, are
known as the shawl shapes, and are ex-
tremely modish but undeniably elderly
looking garments.
Handsome stoles, shaped TO fl fatty
around the neck, hut of the same width
throughout their width, are made up in all
the fine furs, and are sometimes deliberately
treated with inset lace, embroidery, &c.
One successful model in ermine, noted
last week, had trimming only at the ends,
where there were frills Of real lace and
inset motifs of the lace touched up with
embroidery in gold and violet. At the
throat little collar points of white panne,
embroidered in gold and violet, lay back
fatty over the fur.
In sable and the other long haired furs
the shapes have changed but little, the
newest models showing wider and fiatter
effects than were used last year, and where
cost is not considered the new sable collar
lies out well over the shoulders. is finished
with tails across the back, in front Of the
shoulders and on the long stole ends.