Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02
FURS ABE PROMISED A SEASON. OF UNPRECEDENTED EN

cars; or be crushed
between one and the back of the seat
at a theater. The grandmother muff
might, indeed serve as a tootstool;
but one cannot imagine disposing of
it in any other way in one of the
crowded theater stalls.
Whether barrel-shaped or semi-hat,
the new muffs are deligtfully light in
weight-and the lighter weights, the
heavier the price; for the best models
are made of the finest, softest skins
on a foundation of chiffon or light
satin, and the padding is of fine elder
down. Even the satin Innings are
thinner and lighter than used to be
the case.
Fox will be as popular as ever. No
other fur is more becoming to the
complexion than this feathery pelt
which has a charming way of fatter-
ing the skin and making it look milky
white. Much of the black fox offered
in the shops is simply our plebian
cousin the red fox of the fields, clev-
erly transformed by an expert dying
process. Raccoon is also dyed to i'm
itate foxfur. Many of these imita-
tons are very satisfactory indeed, and
when a smart looking set is desired
at an inexpensive figure, dyed fox is
a good choice to make.
White fox is very beautiful-and
very scarce; and a handsome white
fox set is sure to be costly. These
snow-white pelts are lovely on young
girls whose hawless skins can stand
the severe test of the white fur
against the face; but elder women
wear the white fox only in the even
ing, when it is extremely fashionable
on evening wraps. A white coney
evening coat, trimmed with white fox,
and accompanied by huge white fox
muf is sight to remember for many
a day-even if one may not, ones self
ever hope to possess such luxury.
Ermine also is reserved exclusively
for evening-or for afternoon car
riage wear by women of best taste
and is never worn with dark street
costumes. A fastidious woman
would as soon appear on a beach of
midsummer morning decked in all
her diamonds, as to shop of a morn
! ing in town in her ermines.
The pointed foxes are supremacy
lovely-for those who can afford
| them; but as verybody knows most
of the pointed fox" furs shown in
the shops are really pointed by hand,
genuine set of pointed fox being
worth from two to four thousand dol
! lars. This fur pointing is an art in
itself, The white hairs must not only
be carefully inserted in the skin but
must give the character and show the
design of the natural pelt. Only the
softest and whitest badger hairs are
used and these are inserted one by
one in the skin and glued fast. To
point Sitka fox pelt requires two
days labor by an expert.
In the brown furs, skunk is by far
the leader This erstwhile humble
and not beloved-pelt has risen by
leaps and bounds to the pinnacle OF
favor, and alasl the price also has
risen by leaps and bounds, until an
imitation seal coat trimmed with
skunk boasts price not to be sneered
at. Hudson seal is another of the
brown pelts which is extremely fash
ionable; and this imitation of genu-
inc seal is often almost as soft, vel
vety and beautiful as the real skin
Hudson seal is really only another
name for French rat, and this imita-
ton sealskin is used for some of the
richest of the new fur coats and
wraps.
Another brown fur is fisher, which
sprang into sudden favor last season
because of the within of a Russian
lady of rank. Fisher is a most beau,
tiful fur, soft and velvety and with
notified shadings over a deep, DARK
brown at the heart of the fur Mink
is always good-provided it is of fine
quality; but this fur is perishable. Il
fades quickly and for this reason i!
not an economical fur for the averag,
woman. Some of the, matched mini
coats are rarely beautiful and there
are tremendous barrel muffs 10 mattel
them; but the price is almost prohibi
tive to any but the wife of a pluto
crat. Cheap mink should be avoided
!, like the plague; for of all the furs