Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-08

quantities as though they had not been
selling them like hot chestnuts on a cold
day. So the paramount question is Whetn-
err you want one if You haven't one.
If you will lave it then use ii COW
ering for your sofa. After all it is hard
| to find anything with more distinction in
mass than the different kinds of sealskin
The deep brown tone of it is becoming
and impartS to woman that appearance
of exceeding gentility given by a black
gown.
| Every woman knows that fur hunting
land fur buying begin at the New Year.
| 1t is an open secret between the trade
| and the people that all peltry must be
gotten out of stock. Furs may keep, but
styles won't. for the woman of today in
| sists that each piece of fur she owns
shall follow the last whim i'm cut and
| drapery. Even the coats have taken on
a pannier drapery because the gown I'M
derneath has it.
Possibly the change is due to the
tradespeople more than the women. for
the profits of the former are exceedingly
OF fur that they have kept in stock in
building the new garments. The amateur
cannot do this Much as she would like
to economic on furs. she will find that it
is extravagant business to try to re-
shape them at home.
If you are in need of furs and go
abroad today to take advantage of the
reduction sales it would be wise to avoid
! the extreme novelties. You will find the
| majority of these in muffs and neck
| pieces. There Is more sanity in the
coats. The majority of them, it is UNI
| fortunately true. are sharply cut away in
| front. which Is French trick that does
| not kee pan American warm
The sleeves, also. are not cut for COM
| fort. as the armholes are so low that you
cannot raise the hands higher than the
bust, and they are shaped out SO widely
below the elbow that the cold can pene-
| trate to the shoulder without anything
| to stop it. If you want fur coat for
warmth and to last more than one sea-
son, look well to 1T that the sleeves are
snug and long and the opening does not
| run to the waist in front. 1t is true that
one needs the back we'll covered if one
would be warm, but it is not the better
part of wisdom to cover only the back.
Unless you are a person with a lean
| ing waited with consideration, one
ger skin and leopard skin. and do not
| indulge too freely in raccoon. Although
this kind of peltry is exploited by fash
| ion. its proper place is i'm the forest.
II one looks well and insists upon be-
| ing waite don with consdera ton. one
| can find coat of Hudson seal without
| any of the fantastic fripperies that some
manufacturers use to draw attention to
| their knowledge of fashion. These usually
consist of pointed capes with swinging
tasses and superfiuous stoles with heavy
| fringes. There are also loopings' and con-
: voutons that are only suitable for a
tulle or satin evening gown. One may be
| interested technically to know that the
furrier can do such amazing things with
peltry. but beyond this the interest
should no further go.
| Any woman who does not buy furs as
| she buys handkerchiefs is perplexed over
whether not she should put her money
| in long coat. She is impressed with all
these vague rumors floating through the
air about short coats coming again into
( fashion. while the new year is in
| FAINT, but she should realize that long
coat can always be cut short and that
she can get the warmth out of 1t before
the fashions change.
There is one novelty neckpiece that
| came out late in the season which wom-
an need not avoid. 1t is merely an extra
| long, wide stole and its chief beauty lies
! In the way that it is wrapped around the
| figure. 1t is first passed under the arms
from the front to back, quite covering the
i.bust; then crossing in the back the two
ends are brought over the shoulder to-
| ward the front and hang to the knees. 1t
| gives the appearance OF new Kind OF
| Turkish jacket.
If one wants to be sensible q plain
| wide stole is the safest investment for
| ones money. 1t can be wrapped about
| the body in any way that one wishes to
| invent. MuclD ingenuity has been shown
| in this line during the last month and
| the onlooker who is not in the secret is
| tempted to believe that forty fantastic
! fashions are exploited in one day, where
| as the one shape Of stole is doing all the
| work.
The fight in Paris is between the pillow
| and the barrel muff. So far neither one
| has the supremacy. 1t is only natural
| that the small round affair should come
| back into fashion with founced skirts.
| With the Immensely wide cuffs of fur
| that are worn on the sleeves it is really
unnecessary to indulge in the expense
| of huge pillow muff. but what woman
| was ever governed in fashion by the
| word necessary? Whichever shape a
| woman chooses she should refuse to con-
slider the novelty muffs unless she is of
| that fortunate class that can discard
| anything that it tires of. These novelty
| muffs are embroidered in brilliant silks.
| and again they are made Of velvet OF
| satin with raised flower design in a
! vivid colored chenille. They attract the