Evening star., 1920-01-25
fortunes Spent for FurS During the Winter

These are the women who divide
their purchasing OF fnrs into two
parts: the huge. comfortable coat
which serves every hour of the day
and all the informal hours of the
evening when one is in the open; and
the fantastic piece OF fur that is made
to serve chill day in the early
spring or as an accessory to thin
frock In the drawing room or restaurant.
1t IL on these smaller furs that ate
tenti0n IL focused this week, for
every one already knows whatever
there IL to know about comfortable
coats. They are sable il one has On
immense bank account and 10 trying
to avoid taxes. or they are mink.
beaver, or several other kinds Of
semi precious furs.
Small fanciful furs, however, are as
varied as the days of winter. 1t 10 in
this field that the designers are work.
ing like beavers. They are twisting
and turning various peltres that
grew on beasts, wild or tame, in order
to build up alluring little garments
that will keep women interested In
furs and provide them with an acces.
sorry that guarantees a new appears
ance to an old gown.
There Is quite fash Of imagination
shown by individuals In arranging
these small fur pieces. The majority
of them are suggested by the women
who buy them. who have arrived at
the conclusion that lengthy visit to
the furrier often results in a new and
amazing trifie that lends distinction.
Glance your eye over the sketches
that run along with this type. They
are individual designs. and smart
women prefer them to the common.
place thing which is bought at the
shop and has been copied since No-
vember. Some Of them will go to
pleasure resorts and smiling skies;
others will be worn in an atmosphere
of steam heat; others will have their
full fling when the winter breaks and
the fur coat becomes unbearable.
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The reason these small pieces Of fur
have their innings is the fashion for
retaining bits of peltry over decollete
gowns in the house. Now that some
of us are thoroughly launched in the
shortest of French skirts and sleeves.
with deco1letage that extends to the
depth prescribed for evening. we find
ourselves willing to wear warm ac.
cessories that give becoming tones to
the flesh.
1t is a curious thing that the Ameri.
cans have done In adopting the abA
breviated costume of the French eight
months after Paris launch ed it and at
the moment when Paris has partly
decided to make longer skirts, longer
sleeves and possibly a filled-in decoI-
letage, In fact, some of the best Of
the new French gowns have collars
that reach to the chin and sleeves
that cover the knuckles. However,
our women are more keenly Interest,"
ed in what is worn in America than
what is being launched or abandoned
in Paris, for the reason that few care
to be either ahead or behind the pre-
vailinE fashion in their own town.
That's what counts.
The designers, seeing the qusrtsr
from which the wind blows, have
been only toe happy to throw out
hundreds Of these French bathing
suit" gowns to a public that wac
swapping at them, and the furriers.
treading on the heels of the dress-
makers, saw their chance to cover up
bits Of the exposed flesh with cIevefly
arranged pieces of peltry.
The small pieces Of fur worn by the
women who loiter through this pasa
are not to be found at the shops.
They can only be copied. and for that
reason they should appeal to those
who are desperately weary ot tho
commonplace. the conventional, the
garments that one sees in fifty shops
in q great city.
1t may be that these fur pieces were
made from odds and ends of peltry in
the possession Of certain women, but
the furriers also should be glad of the
chance to use up what odds and ends
they possess.
There is a scarf, you see. of white
coney, which Is buttoned with jet and
edged with black. 1t is an alluring
garment, to my mind. and signifies q
commendable attempt to cover too
much skin exposed by black velvet
gown which is more skirt tnan frock.
Then there is that breastplate, such
as ancient warriors wore when they
went forth on their crusadss. 1t is
made Of striped fur with nigh coll
lar that gives a point to chin that
may be square. eve are so anxious