The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-11-17
IN MANY Combinations
VELVET AND FUR AND VELVET
AND LACE SEEM TO BE
KEYNOTE OF FASHION

Foreign Designers Are Introducing
Venice Lace In Their Models
Brocades Crepe and Satin In Vogue
ut Present-Bead Embroidery Ex-
tensively Used For Decorative En-
feet.
New York, Nov. 13.-Velvet and fur
or velvet and lace, two truly royal
combinations, seem to be the keynote
of fashion at this season, not only in
Paris but also in New York. Every
kind of fur, from the cheapest to the
most expensive is used in the costumes
Of fashionable women at present and
there is every reason to believe that
the coming season will bring out a
larger number and variety of fur gar
ments of every description that have
been seen in many years.
Long coats of fur promise to be
extremely popular this winter, al
though there will also be th%ree-quar-
ter length and even shorter coats. A
majority of these coats, whether long
or short, have collars of long hair
fur and the collars, both in the long
hair fur and in the soft fine furs, are
usually huge, extending far out on the
shoulders and crossing in front, to
fasten at the waist line or below, we'll
TO the left side. Often, too, this big
collar falls in the big square sailor
collar lines in the back, and it may
even pass all sailor lines and drop to
the waist line, or, like a big, broad,
square cornered panel, to a point be-
low the hips.
Combinations of Fur.
Combinations of fur are many in
long coats, short coats and small furs,
the last a decided misnomer, for the
neck pieces and muffs are in most
cases anything but small. Scarfs three
quarters of a yard or even a yard
wide are not unusual and these are
proportionately long, long enough to
drape around the shoulders and fall
almost to the floor or at least to the
knees in front or to be worn crossed
on the shoulder with one end falling
down the back. These ample scarfs,
if they are to be worn gracefully,
must be of extreme suppleness and
one of the fine short furs is generally
used for the body of the scarf, while
either a long hair or short hair con-
trasting fur may form a border.
Pure white ermine with a border of
fine, silky black caracul, makes a
charming combination, and ermine,
bordered by skunk or other long dark
fur is also considerably used. Mole
skin, which has sprung into new pop
ularity, a popularity well deserved be-
cause of this fur's softness, sickness
and exquisite brown gray tone, is
combined with ermine and with the
dark furs and seal is used with al
most everything.
The huge scarfs are made up ven
in the thicker furs, such as sable, the
martens, opossum, etc, but in SUI II
cases the one fur is most often used
with 40 combination or border effect
and these One-fur scarfs are much
used ever in the short hair furs, such
as seal, ermine and chinchilla. They
have, in the opinion of the fastidious,
a more elegant air than the combina-
tons of furs and they are, undoubted-
ly, more practical, being less cut up,
more easily remodeled and less spec
tacular; but these combination ar
rangements are very modish this sea-
Sol and there are always many wom-
en- who do not look further than that.
Venice Lace Much Used.
All the notable designers of fashion
in Paris have introduced Venice lace
IN their models, probably because it
is the most becoming lace to be used
with velvet. Venetian lace collars
edged with fur are worn on velvet