The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-12-27
.FURs IN MILLINERY
Styles Are Prettier and More
Varied Than Ever.
Ermine-Trimmed Toques Present
rancy-Heayy and Filmy Materl-
ais Used In Combination
Handsome Fur seta.

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|AYEW YORK. in the his
IN tory OF fashion have the small
iur trimmed neck mum and hat
sets been SO varied and so be-
Wltching as they are this season. The
materials IN vogue lend themselves
delightfully."- to such purposes and furs
are to be had of so many kinds and
at such a wide range Of prices that
the FUR trimmed set seems to be with.
In almost any clever woman's reach
though the smart little imported sets
showing decidedly clever and orig
nal features are priced SO high that
tney are but little less expensive. If
at all. than handsome all fur neck and
mum sets.
At the same price the latter are
OF course the more practical invest
ment. They are sure Of at least a
Few seasons modishness, while the
combination sets, owing their vogue
to the whim Of fashion, rather than
to intrinsic value, are likely to lose
their smartness with the passing sea
son; but If a woman can make I'M a
pretty and effective set herself-and
surprising number of women can do
that sort Of thing -or can have one
made by some little furrier or milliner
under her own careful directions. then
the combination set is altogether de-
slrable and will give cachet to sim
pie costume
Among the conventional neck and
muff furs the fox sets hold their popu-
larity They are not Of necessity ex-
travagantly high priced, though If one
wants to spend money one can dis
pose of very large sum in the buying
Of silver fox. Even the cheaper vari-
cites of fox when imported in fancy
and beautiful sets bring high prices;
but one can buy very good looking
muff and neckpiece of pointed fox or
white fox or dyed brown fox or even
good cross fox for price by no means
lextravagant, as prices of good furs
lgo, and black fox is distinctly rea-
sonable
For the younger contingent there is
nothing in the line of furs more suit
able and more practical than fox
and with the omnipresent velvet and
velveteen frocks and suits of this
winter white fox will be enormously
worn. Ermine is smart for the
youthful wearer and effective with
velvet; but it is hardly SO becoming
or youthful as the fox, and when real,
is more expensive. when real" one
says; and the reservation is neces-
sary, for an unbelievable number Of
rabbits and cats and other humble
beasties perish nowadays in order
that ermine may be worn.
Some of the limitations are not bad,
are, in fact, quite effective and pretty
enough to use for little touches
Of trimming; but one must be sure to
pay the price of imitation; and unfor-
tunately one does not always find hon.
esty in this regard. The reputable fur
riers are reliable in matters of this
kind, but importing milliners, dress
makers, etc., are not invariably SO,
and only within the last week a wom-
an who purchased velvet and err
mine set from a certain Fifth avenue
shop noted for chic models and paid
the price of real ermine was told by
furrier to whom she happened to
go wearing the set that her ermine
was only an imitation. And the moral
of that is to recognize your cat or
rabbit; but, as has been said, great
deal of the imitation fur is at
tractive.
One of the most pleasing details of
the fur fad this fall Is the clever use
of fur in millinery and the piquant
harmonizing of hat and muff or OF
hat, neckpiece and muff. The idea,
to be sure, is now new. There have
been fur hats and fur trimmed hats
before; but not within the memory OF
this generation has the thing been SO
well done or done with such infinite
variety.
All Materials Utilized.
No material is to fi1my or too rich
to be combined with fur, and the mil
liners, going upon that theory, have
produced sets for morning. afternoon
and evening, for sports and for smart
social functions, for the woman who
does not care what she pays and for
the woman who, like Mrs. Boffin OF
blessed memory, IS "a high f1ier after
fashion" but has little money to spend
on dress.
Among the girlish sets adapted for
winter sport, but quite as suitable for
street wear. is handsome white fox
set whose muff and neckpiece are con-
yentional enough but whose hat takes
the piquant form of little pointed
crown cap of black plush trimmed
round the face with band OF the
white fox. Simple? OF course, but
eminently girlish and scoming.
There are many of tie close cap
like fur hats for girls and for wom-
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