The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-30

Dame Fashion has decreed many
changes in women's motor apparel for
the 1912 season. The newest pelt in
motor coats Is dubbed by the furriers
kit fox" This fur Is smooth, silky
and glossy and looks suspiciously like
the coat on well fed, we'll groomed
pussy's back. 1t is more supple than
rabbit fur and not as close and fine as
the expensive ermine. Trimmed with
collars of white fox these coats are
very luxurious and attractive, and are
of course, accompanied by becoming
white fur caps to match. White cats
with their pale, cold eyes are seldom
lovable, and one could wear a white
kit fox" coat without any sentiment
tai regrets, but when it comes to mall
tese motor coats the thing seems diff
ferent Most Of us have loved and lost
at least one maltese pussy, and the
maltese fur coats with their lovely
gray satin Innings are not likely to
prove a successful experiment for the
furriers. One of these maltese coats
was seen the other day in shop win
dow priced at almost 500.
Muskrat is a very fashionable pelt
| for motor coats, and the soft, tawney
shade is charming against the out-of-
door background. A muskrat coat
with collar and cuffs of Australian OPP
possum was noted on a pretty girl re-
Gently and with the coat went an
adorable bonnet of knitted gray che
nile and French blue velvet.
, Another charming motor costume
that combined fur with blue velvet
was seen. There was long, straight
coat of navy blue corduroy trimmed
with a superb collar of blue fox. with
cuffs almost as large as muffs Of the
same pelt. The wearer, a tall, slender
young girl with eyes as blue as her
velvet coat, stood most of the time
with one hand tucked inside the cuff
of the other sleeve. and no muff could
have kept her fing<-s warmer than did
the big fur cuffs thus joined. The pho
tograph of this blue coat with its fox
fur trimmings shows also the fetching
little motor bonnet of blue corduroy
with blue taffeta plating all around
the edge and a flat Alsatienne bow
of the velvet lined with the taffeta
across the front. With this coat were
worn gloves of canary yellow doeskin
and when the coat was removed a
charming frock of blue mohair stitched
with gold buttons and pipings of or
ange was revealed.
Reversible Fabrics Attract.
The fur motor coat, unless built Of
very fine, supple pelts and skillfully
fashioned by a good furrier, is apt tt
be clumsy and shapeless and is not
as attractive as one of the smart new
coats of reversible cloth Of Scotch
wooden fabric which come in such
warm, pleasing colors. When an all
wool fabric of close weave is selected
such a coat is almost as warm as the
fur; but many of the cheaper motor
coats are more than half cotton ant
the weave is coarse and open to give
the effect of fleeciness and softness
Such coats look very we'll and sugges
substantial warmth in their roomines!
and general style, but the searching
winter wind goes through the fabric
as it would through so much muslin
and it is wise, if ones coat is not o
the best quality, to provide chamoi
jacket or warm sweater for protection
underneath. The secret of comfort II
a motor coat is lightness, yet warmth
of materials, and a fit that is room.
about the body, yet snug at all point
where the wind may have access. Tn
J fronts should be double-breasted an
! should be so arranged that they ma
be buttoned snugly around the throat
the sleeves should have wind cuffs
inside which may be buttoned closet
: around the wrists, and the fronts C
the coat should lap well over each a
the bottom so that the limbs may b
kept warm. Some of the smart lookin
reversible cloth coats while fastenin
: high and snugly around the throat
slope sharply away in almost cuts
way effect at the lower edge SO tina