Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02

this one IS most Impossible IN It's 1nl-
tations.
Fur neckpieces grow larger and
larger. Some of them are almost pei
crimes and hang down the back as far
as the waist. On the other hand
there are pert little raDat ties which
cross over the coat collar in jaunty
style; and with these the muffs are
quite as big and luxurious as those
carried with the huge, luxurious neck
pieces. A great deal depends on the
way those Small" furs are worn.
Some women will go through a whole
winter carrying the muff in a demure
or precise fashion at the end of the
arms, while other women will find a
hundred ways of expressing coquetry
with this implement, which is placed
beneath the chin, beside the cheek;
looked over, stroked in meditation
beneath downcast lids; or shaken in
saucy pettishness. A muff has quite
as many ways of saying things as
parasol-or fan-if one but knows
how.
The neckpiece last Winter was Of
ten slipped around to the side so that
the fastening came on the shoulder
instead of directly in front, and this
fad seems likely to be followed this
year also. The French manner of
crossing the fur stole in front and al
lowing the ends to hang over the
shoulders toward the back will also
prevail in this country. Beware of a
| dignifed neckpiece hanging straight
down in front with tabs falling below
the waist This effect is sure to be
mature and matronly.
Long coats of seal and broadtail
are shows, with luxurious borders of
fox or skunk. These are for carriage
or limousine wear. The favorite fur
coat for street wear is a jaunty hip
| length jacket which fits the figure
rather closely and crosses over in
| front to fasten at the left side in the
Russian fashion. These coats are
most youthful and graceful, and have
girlish air that will be sure to make
them popular. One sees them in seal
and imitation seal, with skunk trim
mings, in pony, in caracul, in Persian
lamb and in broadtail They are also
shown in matched mink and even in
matched chinchilla. With them will
be worn jaunty velvet turbans with
fur brims, or Persian-silk draped tur-
bans with fur edge.
Persian silk Innings yelled with chif-
! fon make some of the shawl wraps
for evening and carriage wear very
luxurious. Many of these dainty,
shaped fur wraps are shown by the
smart furriers, who call them theater,
or bridge wraps. Delmans, pelerines,
victorines and all sorts of quaint, old
timey shapes are built of the furs,
with borders of longer haired pelts
and dainty pleatings of velvet ribbon
are set along the edge between fur
and lining.
A new pelt which is immensely
fashionable in wraps of this charac-
ter, is the Australian opossum. This
fur is very like the chinchilla in gen.
eral effect, though not as blue gray
in color, having a browner tinge. II
is also much more serviceable than
the perishable chinchilla; and less
expensive too; genuine chinchilla be-
ing now very rare and costly.
One of the new Dolman wraps OF
this Australian opossum is built in
the peasant shoulder effect, with a
long, graceful line from throat to up
per arm, and below this "ruffle" OF
the fur-really a shaped hounce with
the marking set the other way-falls
to the waist at the back, while in
front the garment extends TO the
knees. Matched by a huge grand
mother muff of the same fur, this
opossum set Is not only quaint and
claiming, but extremely handsome.
This fur is used also in dressy
searfs and muffs for evening use
strips of the soft, fluffy fur being at
tached to thin, soft silk or chiffon
and the big muff being formed in the
same way Such a scarf and muff are
feather-light and as soft as thistle
down Broad collars of the opossun
are also put on rich seal coats, anC
the effect Is very good, though many
women prefer the darker collar o
, skunk fur.