The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-01

~ HE woman who paid a thou
 sand dollars or more for a fur
 evening wrap last season is cha
 grinned this year to find that her costly garment must be remade, at considerable additional sexpense. in order to conform to the new wrap lines. Though last seasons wraps were narrow at the foot and wide at the shoulder; they are not-this year, narrow enough at the foot or wide enough at the shoulder to give the pronounced Oriental effect of drapery now fashionable. Beside one of the new draped wraps of seal. mole or ermine, last seasons model looks positively "straight-up- -and-down," for all its graceful sleeves and its lapped front effect.
 That quantities of fur are required to make the draped wraps of the moment goes without saying. The amount of sealskin put into a modern limousine wrap on fashionable draped lines, would be sufficient to make two sealskin coats of the hip length style, favored some seasons ago. In spite of the enormous amount of fur in these modern wraps, however, the IflOuciS te SUI l1Sul, anu dTb almost as soft and supple in texture as though they were so much crepe de chine. All this is because the fin- est, most pliable belts are used and Things are chosen with utmost care, so that not an ounce of needless weight may be added to the garment. The arrangement of the fur is often very interesting, for new wraps seem tn In I,a top of the wrap, including the sleeves which are usually in kimono or raglan style with very dropping shoulder lines, being quite separate from the lower portion and the two sections being joined just above the waistline in more or less fanciful or curved seam In velvet and plush wraps this joining seam is heavily corded and in fur wraps braid Is sometimes used to cover the seam, Other wraps have deep, flat yoke pieces, hidden under enormous collars of contrasting fur, the gathered portion of the wrap be- ing attached to the fiat yoke. This g1ves enough fullness for the making of the graceful draperies, without add ,,ng clumsiness over the shoulders and bust.
 Draperies Clevcrly Managed.
 Two beautiful new draped fur wraps are pictured: one a sealskin model from the house of Bechoff-David and the other a striped squirrel wrap in the new three-quarter length. A great many of the new coats are be- ing made in this abbreviated length and several very authoritative houses have brought out fur coats in hip length, so there is no telling what may happen by the end of the season in the length of fur garments.
 The sealskin wrap has a vest of leopard the soft seal pelt being drap- ed from the lower rdges of this straight vest in an effect which is entirely new. Chcruit has brought out a breitschwanz coat which has also this vest effect at the front, draped sash of the breitschwanz cross ing the flat, buttoned vest and passing under the drapery of the coat at the sides. Leopard is immensely fash ionable this season and Bechoff- David is by no means the only couturier who has combined leopard and seal. Sew Aaral strikingly rich leopard wraps,
 ith collars of skunk. were noted at Re recent Horse Show in New York, and leopard muffs and neckpieces are beginning to press the ultra fashion, able red fox very shard for fRVogs The combination of seal and leopard in the Bechoff- David wrap is cieyerly