Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-11-06
This YEAR
IN NILADY'S skirt
Bands of Fur on Winter
Models Also a New
Idea
VELVET COATS
AGAIN STYLISH
BY MARGARET MASON.
for the United Press.

There are pockets galore,
Often two, three or more.
On the new frock's front, back or
each side.
They are empty of pelf,
But Milady herself,
May use them to pocket her pride.
NEW YORK, Nov 6.-Have you a
little pocket in your skirt? Are
there one little, two little, three lit
tie pockets peering forth coquettishly
from some points of your habili-
ments? If not you cannot hope to
be an edition de luxe of a perfectly
apparelled female this winter. Not
even a pocket edition.
The most of them are all such
giddy pockets too, some unfapped to
reveal gaily colored Innings of plaid,
| figured or Roman striped silk.
Slashed across each hip seam and
showing their dash of colored lining
these pockets serve as unique trim
ming of the skirt. More demure ones
bound in braid and some with enve-
/ lope flaps fastening down with a
| jewelled or gilt button breast the
wave Of fashionable approval from
the breast of a bodice or a short
| jacket-like basque while others, large
and deliberately braided and en-
broidered, brazenly take up their
pocket position right in the front of
! a skirt.
Quite as essential and omnipresent
good point as the pocket is the
use Of wide bands of fur on all the
best winter models. You fare worse
the further from fur you go this
year. All the more elegant velvet
and silk costumes are bounded on
the north, east, south and west by
broad bands of fur or in other words
their tiaring skirts are edged with
It, their fiaring coats finished with
II and their necks and wrists encir-
cled with a length of hirsute hide.
With some undiscerning persons
fur is fur but with the fashionable
elect the selection of the proper and
smart fur to combine with certain
materials is a vital question. Skunk
and fitch make the most popular
trimmings, ermine is also a great ia
vorite, but is smartest used In its
tailless state of unspotted wilderness.
Monkey fur is used as a fringe
banding with chic effect and particu-
larly in combination with other fur
is It very good. Muffs and neck
pieces Of ermine fringed with the
monkey fur are stunning and volu-
minous cape wraps of Persian lamb
seal or the tailless ermine finished
with the struggling lengths Of the
ebon monkey fur are quite the last
word in fur fashions. Beaver, so lonl
an outoast In the fashionable fui
world, as we'll as astrakhan has beel
welcomed back with joyous smile
and no longer sinks In furtive obli
won of fashionable ostracism-
It is rather a startling fact tina
this year the all fur coat which wa
erstwhile the goal Of everywomen'
desire has dropped back into secon,
place and this winter 1t is the cap
of flaring coat Of velvet banded, col
Jared and cuffed in fur which is tn
idol of the hour. Muffs and boas al
so have almost become extinct sine
the high collars of fur preclude tn
latter and the wide fur cuffs on al
wraps make perfectly good imitation
of a muff when milady's hands ar
elapsed over her tummy.
To be sure some NUNS are show
and the most unique Of these is
quite round mum prettily marked 4
chinchilla. ermine or beaver. Har
little tight muff affairs like gu
grandmothers used to carry ar
smart in the longer haired furs Will
most of the big fat pillow muffs an
draped ones are developed in velve
that is merely fur trimmed.
AS a trimming, fur banding al
also used with great effect, outlinin
the large armholes of the jumpe
like basques OF the large Sleeveless
armholes on the evening gowns. N
fur banding is permissible less tina
three inches in width and some fin
ishing a fiaring skirt, Russian cos
or tunic aspire to the broadness {
eight inches.
- Many Of the Moyen Age frocks al
= Haunting wide loose belts of fur.
a tummy warmer it certainly put
Il all over the bands of flannel wor
in the same region by the well req
| lated infant.