The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13
The Fox Neck piece IS Just lis Fashionable for rA11Sustas
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Paris Fancy for ShorSIeeves Brings Renewed Interest for Light Fur Wraps -Aftracfive Linings Feature of Summer CapeIefs and PeIisses -Fox ffe
 Favorfe PeIf for Summer Neckpieces.
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1 Fur recovers it's gloss in cold storage and it's vibrant quality. Even if a garment is not made over during the l oH-seaSon, it conn les forth from its re- tirement in a fr1gid temperature sew eral times newer and younger looking than when it went in during those days of golden spring sunshine. So the winter furs should be sent to cold stor- age promptly with the first warm days and summer furs substituted.
 Oddly enough April is the most fur less" month of the year. Everybody is so tired of wintry wearabies and the mind turns 10 fresh spring suits, shiny straw turbans and light weight footwear-furs are perfect drug on the market and one cannot abandon them too soon. Very few so-called summer furs are worn in April and a few belated winter furs appear only on bleak left-ove -from-March days. But in May the summer furs begin to come into their own. Furnaces have gone out and unless the sun shines and the wind is from the south people are shivery; and then comes that de- pressing nnid-May storm that always makes folk wonder if summer is ever coming, and think lovingly of the fox and seal and opossum wearableS that were consigned to cold storage April first. Then indeed, is the time when summer furs begin to come into their own.
 Fox The FavOrite For Neckpieces
 Among the summer fur scarfs there are models in opossum, Austral ian chinchilla and other pelts; but fox is far and away the favorite. and all grades of fox are among those present. A very handsome taupe fox scarf with animal head and long brush is pic tured. The scarf falls most gracefully from the shoulders, held by clasped paws, the brush swinging at the back. This is the way Fashion decrees that a neckpiece of this sort shall be worn, and the longer and more luxuriant the swinging brush at the back, the smart CT the effect. This brush, you see, falls quite to the hip and the taupe scarf Is very stunning with dark blue Georgette frock, which has an inter- esting girdle made of white beads. Taupe fox is most dear to fashion just now, though gray fox is very good also. White fox is worn but is not as fash ionable as it was a year or two ago when every other woman had white fox belt about her throat, however warm the summer day. Black furs are not much worn in summer time except by women in mourning. There are few neckpieces of lynx or black fox for wear with special costumes, but the average woman prefers taupe or gray which may be worn with all frocks and tailormades. In addition to the long-brushed neckpieces there are bonny little cravas of seal, mole and beaver, some of them daintifed with ermine knots or facings. A cravat, however, must be worn tight around the throat or not at all; whereas a fur scarf may swing from the shoulders and add to the costume without caus- ing suffocated feeling if the day is oppressive.
 Chiffon And Fur Make An Ideal Sum-
 mer Wrap
 One of the wraps pictured com mends itself by its practical qualities as we'll as by it's smartness. It is the wrap of brown chiffon with collar and band trimmings of taupe fox There is sufficient warmth in this light wrap with it's big fur collar for any summer evening. yet the garment has a sum- mery and consistent effect lacking in an all-fur cape There are slashes at each side, edged with the fox banding