The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-06
Skins of Humble Animals Masquerade as Anstocratc Pelts = Many Substitutes for Genuine Sealskm-- French Fur Garments of Fanchul Cut = Closer
 Figure Lines Favored by Paris Furrers.

to show the buttoned boot. Footwear is so charming these days that fashion is really conferring a favor in decree ing that street costumes of all but a very formal nature shall show the boot. Patent leather boots with but toned tops of dull calf-the correct and conventional street boot for the conservative woman--are worn with this caracul coat.
 Sea,skin limitations Are Numerous.
 French rata quadruped hunted in the sewers of Paris, is also used as substitute for sealskin; and really, one cannot turn up ones nose at french rat and then take kindly to American skunk. Plucked muskrat and dyed raccoon also masquerade occasionally as genuine seal; but for these mas oueraders one must pay the genuine seal price and most women prefer to invest in a frankly imitation at a fourth the price. Two charming seal cite coats for limousine and carriage wear are illustrated also. One of these coats is a regulation evening-dress model and has the graceful cut and white fur trimming that give it an in- disputable evening character. The other coat, intended for limousine use over bridge or visiting gowns in the afternoon, has a straighter cut and falls to tho hem of the skirt, though it is not trim enough in line to suggest garment built for walking wear. Street coats show tendency to define the lines of the figure trifie and are nipped in :. wee bit more at the waist line than has been the case for several seasons. The street coat also is few inches shorter than the skirt-some- times as much as six inches shorter, and the full length coat, covering the frock to the feet suggests a dresser or more wrap-like model.
 The limousine coat of sealette is cut with an odd. new inserted piece under the arm, this section being finished all around with silk cording and having a slash down the center trimmed with cord and tassel. The huge collar of gray wolf lends added elegance and distinction to the coat The other coat, intended for evening wear, has collar of white fox, one side of this collar extending down over broad rever of white brocaded velvet which crosses the coat to the left knee. The garment is lined with white brocaded silk.
 Gay And Beautiful Linings In Rich
 Coats.
 The outside of a coat is not the only consideration of the fashionable and high class furrier. He spends almost as much time on the inside of the gar nent; setting the lining in to perfec- ton and trimming 1t with all manner of little gaieties in the way of pipings, shirrings, fancy pockets, bits of em- broidery and even garlands of small silk flowers which are so placed that they show effectively when the coat is thrown open. of course an opera or restaurant coat spends most of its time thrown, inside- out over q chair behind it's wearer. so it's lining is a very important consideration. Every woman of the present generation re- calls the young lady in one of Louisa Alcott's stories who never made the mistake of sitting on a blue sofa in a green frock" when she wished to en- gage a gentleman's attention: and the modern fashionable woman is quite as fastidious about the background her coat lining Is going to make for her evening gown. For lining the most cost ly coats the furriers use rich satin and velvet brocades, bengaline yelled with chiffon, chameleon silks and heavy ot- tomans or faille silks. Less expensive coats have attractive Things of two tone taffeta. charmeuse and thinner