The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-28

written for the Topeka Safe Jour-
nal.)
You can't escape a cape, my dear
This summer you must wear
The pelt of some four footed beast
When you do take the air
Some creatures hide and hair
New York, April 2S.-You have to
go fur to see the Cape of Good Hope
but you don't have to go fur to see the
cape of good style, altho it's fur all
right. 1t may be gopher too at that.
but~the chances are it's kolinsky or err
mine or mink or sable or mole or Hud-
son seal. All the really smart fur
capes are made up of one or a combi-
nation of two of these six softly silky
skins selected suitably sartorially for
summertime showing.
AS one little sable pelt is a big hit
you may be sure a full ripply cape of
sable is some knockout. Such a one
running to a deep point below the
waist in back has a broad rolling col
lar of unspotted ermine fastening in
a low V-shaped front.
With a Shawl Collar.
Another one of mink with a shawl
collar of ermine has fitted front and
a deep ripple back for all the world
Hike an old-fashioned dolman. Little
short shoulder capes of Hudson seal
or mole are quaint and charming and
a graceful wrap is one OF chiffon thrice
i banded, once at neck, midway and
again around the edge with kolinsky:
oh where are the white foxes of
yesterday? Last summer the foxiest
of summer furs was white fox. This
summer some are fox but most are
not. To be sure foxes, red, white or
silver are not to be shrugged off too
disdainfully by summer shoulders but
they are seldom seen in comparison
with their last seasons omnipresence
and the fur cape really is the thing.
Long flat broad stoles of the seal,
mole and ermine are the greatest ri
walls of the cape for favor with the
the day that a stole stole it's first place
in Miss Summers wardrobe and af-
fections. The ermine stoles are almost
always finished on the ends with a
row of tiny tails and indeed on both
the capes and stoles of the other furs
the tail trimming is very often used.
Indeed these oft repeated tails are an
old story but always good.
OF all the summer furs ermine best
lends itself from an artistic and
adaptable standpoint to summer tell
cites. 1t sets off a frock of silk
Georgette crepe or a lingerie gown
with equal perfection and has 4 more
| light and fluffy effect and less heat
full appearance than the other furs.
In an ermine cape you may be at
white heat when it is two hundred
in the shade but you'll never look it.
AS a dress trimming as well as a
wrap ermine is a most effective sum-
mertime fur and a white Georgette
frock banded in it is the white of per-
lection. A white organdie gown with
a band of ermine must needs be greet
ed also with joy and abandon as the
summit of summer sartoria1 art
Fur Band Trimming.
As compromise with going too fur
this summer maribou is again putting
forth its fine feathers in wide bands
around the neck, sleeves, and full
skirts of charmeuse coats in the same
manner that the wide bands of fur
were used on the fur coats this last
winter. After all perhaps it were cas-
Ter to stick to maribou if we want to
be sure what we are wearing. When
it is marked down we know it is down
but no matter what mark is on fur We
feel we are the mark if we buy it.
When you are simply dying to buy a
mink collarette the furrier is prob
ably simply dyeing 4 pussy cat to sell
| it to you. Indeed the fur trade IS a
double skin of both you and some 9TH
err poor animal Perhaps it's just as
well you can't spit hairs too finely
in the fur buying for it is so much
more comfortable not to know that
the ermine hair you think you are
wearing is just plain hare.