The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-07-18

Designers Of clothes have already
started October fashions, and here is
n OF them. It is a suit Of green
duvetyn, with a big collar Of squirrel.
It is embroidered in squirrel-gray
chenille, and the wide doubIe.breasted
waistcoat is Of gray silk.
Irritation, the fact remains that the
fur people say that women have moth
ing to fear from the grade, the quality
or the coloration OF the fur that will
bear the American label.
Everyone does not know the extra.
ordinary situation which was develop
ed in the fur trade before the war
broke. The simplest piece Of Ameri-
can peltry that an American girl wore
had probably made q little journey half
around the world and was far more
travelled than its possessor. You could
catch a coon in Georgia, send it to
London for preparation, across the
English channel to France to have
style and finish put into it, then, from
q port in France to an Atlantic port,
and finally journey it across the cor
tinent, drop it into various places, we'll
known and unknown, and sell it to an
American woman.
Such was the fate Of a piece Of fur.
Today u peltry stays at home. We
a catch a coon in Georgia, an opos-
sum in Alabama, trap a mink in New
England, get together all the cats and
rats the nation does not need, and turn
them out between st. Louis, New York,
Chicago and San Francisco into a mot
ley array Of admirable furs.
Will Push Native SeaIskins.
Fostering this condition is the Amer
lean government. Our native seal
skin will be pushed to the limit Of ex-
p%loitation as a fashionable fur, and
there is no reason for women to linger
far behind tthe government in its de.
sire to have these skins sold in a steady
fashion.
The reason for the enthusiasm on
the part Of the majority of women for
this soft and pliable fur, is its effect
upon the human face and figure. 1t is
singularly attractive to flesh and bone.
It falls into supple folds it brings out
the best in a complexion. Raccoon,
opossum, skunk and all the other long
haired furs are stylish, n admits, but
they are not becoming. Silver foxes
are graceful enough in their undula-
lions and the hairs are soft enough to
keep a woman's face gentle and fem
mime, but when q stiff-haired fur Is put
against the chin, the features are hard
ened as though a cold wind had passed
yer them.
Paris is augmenting the use Of seal.
skin. Capes are made with 18 and 20
inch borders Of it; skirts are made
with floating panels Of it lined with
chiffon; medieval cuirasses Of heavy
embroidered satin that show a CLINT Of
silk and metal in the design have long,
medieval sleeves Of American sealskin
which fare v the knuckles.
The sealskin sacque will come back
with the ostrich feather. These have
always been associated in the minds
Of those who remember the days Of old,
when the height of bliss to q fashion.
able woman was q summer in Sara
toga, a pair Of drop solitaire earrings,
a short, untrimmed sealskin sacque
and a hat ornamented with two or
more long, floating ostrich piumes.
The diamond earrings will not re-
turn to fashion, but the ostrich feather
and the sealskin coat will come out on
the primrose path Of fashion in the
early autumn.
The women Of England and France
have led the way. The ostrich plume
was first demanded by those who made
money in munitions and had to spend