Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-15

COLO udsS tne lur coat is seen on the
street over little frocks of cashmere or
mohair, but on the bright clear days of
when New York sees so many-when the
mercury hovers between forty and Nifty.
my LADY prefers a smart coat and skirt
suit with handsome fur neckpiece and
mun to the more cumbersome fur wrap.
The fur coats this season are most
graceful affairs built on rather narrow
lines but roomy enough at the shoulders
to be very comfortable over wool frocks.
The models for day wear have coat
sleeves finished with wide cuffs, and huge
shawl collars of the fur or of some con-
trasting pet, The very sInartest Par
isian coats are severely plain in effect,
the richness of the fur being cons dered
distinction enough without added
trimming of contrasting pelt. Sometimes
a striped border trimming IS contrived by
arranging strips of the, fur in opposite
directions, as in one of todays photo
graphs which shows a Drecoll coat of
genuine seal in mantle style with a deep
shawl collar cuffs and border trimming
of the seal stripping just described The
fastening is al the left side below the
waist. two large buttons covered with the
sealskin be ng fastened under orna-
ment of brown silk cord. The richness Of
this beautiful coat is apparent at a
glance anu nO VI ShuHh,
opossum or other pelt could add to the
distinction and beauty of the garment as
it is. in is simple. perfect good taste:
In striking contrast to this beautiful
Drecoll coat is another sealsk,n model.
This coat is far more coqu ttish and pre-
tentious in style than the simple Drecoll
wrap. hut it lacks the dignity and eA-
quisite distinction of the Paris made gar
ment The lines are in accordance with
fashions mandate for fur wraps of this
81 hIIt the foot fila coat
there is an eccentric, though nod!sh, trim
ming note. Around the front OF the gar
ment is apron of undyed muskrat.
while at the back deep silk fringe boz
ders the coat, the fringe being set on be-
low band of the seatskin, upon which
are huge cord buttons ana loops. The
shawl collar and wide cuffs are edged
with the undyed muskrat, which, by the
bye is a very attractive new fur much
favored by Paouin. This fur has a gray
sh cast with soft brown stripes and is
Ike the Austria ian opossum without its
blue color To match the coat just de-
trimmed at the left side with an East
Indian ornament of colored beads.
Only the very rich woman now can az
ford coat of real seaiskin or genuine
mink, and as for sable, its price is al
most prohib!tve now that the Russian
duma has forbidden the trapping of sa-
bles for three years. Sealskin is most
twice as costly as it was two years ago
and mink has advanced almost as much
proportionately. Even the once-desplsed
skunk, known to the polite world various
1y as leutre, brown marien and Alaska
sable, is ID per cent more costly imam
1t was two years ago, and the common
little coon may value h 5 skin at 81 In
stead of 30 cents Fortunately, however,
for those of US who may not aHord 10
spend thousands of dollars upon our WIN
ter furs, there many less costly va
rieties some of them limitations OF the
aristocrat.c seal, fox and sable, made by
dying pleb.a an beasts of the wood ana
fields. For example, dyed raccoon looks
much like sea- thibet goat when cleveriy
treated is hard to tell from the extremely
costly white Sitka fox; red fox of the
fields is dyed to resemble his aristocratc
cousins; coney looks much IKE ermlhe'
Australian opossum is almost as pretty as
the rare and costly ch!nchilla-and so on.
Mink is one of the furs that have never
been successfully initiated. There are
horrible fur neckpiece and mum sets solo
as mink which are merely marmot
skins streaked with paint brush ana
which deceive nobody. The brook mink
sold by many good furriers is really
muskrat, and there is Japanese mink
that is SO cleverly treated that IL ae-
ceives even the dealers. In genuine mink
the OlaCk Suedh SoeS .'Sai e-AN
fur to the skin. This fur is very. beauti,
full when new, but it soon fades ana
loses it's depth of tone, taking on tawny.
yellow streaks that are ugly IL IS JUST
now not as fashionable as the darker
brown seaIskin and the soft gray-prowh
moleskin which is used for draped even
ing wraps.
The furs par excellence for dressy
evening and afternoon limousine wraps
are ermine and moleskin. The latter mas
come into favor within the past two sea-
sons and is now very fashionable Inc
soft. lovely grayish brown of moleskln
matches no other fabric exactly and yet
this adorable fur seems to harmonlze
with all fabric colorings. From nun
dred and fifty to two hundred skins are
required to make an ordinary wrap. and
for the voluminous affairs draped IN
oriental fashion many more are required.
Moleskin is SO soft and pliable- That IL
may be draped as readily as velVet. anu
it is usually made up in mantle rather
than coat style, with gracefully draped
sleeves and other oriental features. a
handsome moleskin wrap with trimmings
of skunk is illustrated. Another wrap,
displayed in 9TH avenue furriers Win
dow this week, is in perfectly PLAIN
mantle style, and to accompany 1t there
are long soft moleskin scarf. lined
with gray silk, and a huge fiat muff that
might be d second scarf doubled over
and softly lined. Both scarf and mun are
trimmed with long chenille fringe in the
shade of the moleskin.
Ernine, of course, is the fur of furs
for an evening wrap-if one can afford