The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02

u
urious times is the craze for
expensive wraps of fur-wraps
- y not alone for evening wear,
but for afternoon wear over bridge
frocks and even for the promenade.
The new fur wrap has nothing Sc
we're or stately about 1t, with the ex-
ception of a few magnificent gar
ments of costly pelt that while con-
forming to simple and conventional
lines bespeak their supreme elegance
by the quality of the fur. Such is a
full length coat of matched mink
skins, just made to order for a So
ciety dame in New York This coat
lacks the drapery so much employed
this season; its sleeves are plain coat
sleeves, -cuffed with the PATCHED mink
in reversed effect and The collar and
border at the foot of the garment
also show this reversed stripping of
the mink skins. Such a coat, cut on
the new lines of the season, is well
worth the three thousand odd dol
lars which this superb garment cost
its possessor-or rather her indulgent
spouse. and its quiet elegance is
pleasingly at variance with some of
the freakish forms into which noble
furs are distorted.
Dressy Wraps That Endure For a
Season Only.
In contrast to this dignified and
distinguished mink coat is an elab-
orately fanciful affair of molesln,
also designed for afternoon wear, and
also worn-in the Observation-Disclosures
q bridge frock of lansdowne soft
sage green in tone and forming
pleasing harmony with the mole
shade OF the wrap. This question of
colors in connection with the new
short wraps, puts a fresh sartorial
responsibility on women's shoulders.
for the short wrap of fur may not
BE- worn over any colored frock as
could be the full length coat of other
seasons which revealed moth ng of
the frock and fell well over the in
step of the buttoned walking boot.
A moleskin wrap does not look we'll
with q brown frock, nor will it be
possible with certain shades of cold
gray: and if the shade of the frock
II too vivid 1t will utterly spoil the
effect of the darker wrap whose ele-
gance should be the first thing to
catch and hold the eye
In the case of this moleskin wrap
how ever, the color ha mony has been
we'll thought out. The gray-green of
the sage lansdowne frock forms a
rich background against which to
pose the soft moleskin garment. The
velvet hat Is black, with a Paradise
aigrette in soft shades of yellow
The buttoned boots of suede are In
the moleskin color and the white mote
of ermine collar and muff lining is
repeated by white gloves of embroid
cred silk.
But wraps of this fanciful and ex-
aggerated cut are only for the woman
who can afford to keep up with pass
ing dress fads. Such a wrap will be
Absolutely useless a second season
except for making over in the muff and
neckpiece, or for use as trimming
The pelt Is much slashed up to form
the cutaway fronts of the coat, the
little sleeves and the extraordinarily
large revers The wrap is for style
only, Its characteristics Of warmth be
ing negligible as attested by the very
open v Of the neck. the abbreviated
sleeve heightened by fringe. and the
sharply cutaway effect of the fronts
But II is a very chic little wrap.
none the less. and is typical dress,
afternoon wrap of the hour.
Fur and BrOcade Seasonable Com
binatiOn.
Another Of these gay little wraps.