Evening star., 1922-01-11
Lambs Wool for the Small Coat
BY ANNE RITTENHOUsE.

coats most decoratively trimmed with
i red and green lambs wool. They think
themselves quite superior in appearance
! to their elders who continue to make
| much Of undyed caracul.
The mud-colored caracul coat layishly
heaped with black wolf or fox is SO
ubiquitous in New York that one rather
tires seeing it in the shop windows as
! well as on women, and the observer
| street coat should have rushed the sea-
| son and repeated itself until one believes
every other women has one, or has her
eye on one. Like coats Of dyed musk
| rat, they fill the land. What one won
ders more and more about, is where
all the money came from in tight sea.
son to buy the bewildering number OF
fur coats that have been worn by poor
and part poor as well as rich since the
warm autumn began.
AS for children, they do not go in this
season for any of the peltries worn by
the grown-up people. They like black
velvet and they think dyed lambs wool
is the high water mark Of fashion. 1t
is so gay to go about with a muffier
collar with a long end. a tiny muff and
sometimes gauntlets Of curly red or
glarng green fur It's something like
carrying the pet lamb to school without
rebuke from the teacher. The very
amuses the children much more than
if it was the hide of a big wolf or bear.
So they go about their tasks quite
pleased with this turn in fashion that
gave them the chance to do something
conspicuous
Like the adults. the majority of
youngsters have discarded the sur
diagonal line across the chest is
coming more and more into fashion
for coat suits and tailored frocks. in
an attempt to make women release
the bateau neckline. which has eX-
hausted the patience of the design
ers. What they wear instead OF the
surplice collar is a high choker af-
fair. the kind that women are adopt
ing for their wraps for street and
evening. Women omit the stole end
that the dressmakers give to chill
dren and the latter insist that 1t
reach the end of their short skirts.
These dyed butcher furs." as they
are pleasantly called by those who
deplore their vogue. are creeping
into the spring fashions on beach
capes and the jumper blouse upon
which France insists so strongly that
we are getting it over here in sport
materials like heavy knitted silk. 1t
may become a prevailing fashion, but
the chances are against it. but very
much for gray and tan lambs wool,
and all the various kinds of curled
and looped woods. grown or made.
Another thing that children are
taking from their elders is the high
! ly colored lining for coats. When
| they wear black velvet it is lined
with flag red or blue. jade green.
rose pink. They also have adopted
rippling capes. the kind that form
| backgrounds to their abbreviated
frocks. Many Of the smart young.
sters wear circular capes to school
somewhat on the order of those worn
by the romantic-looking Italian po-
lice. These capes have high collars
of lambs wool in gray or color and
| several fanciful clasps across the
chest. The Red Riding Hood cape
| in dark blue and red silk is one of
i wraps a child should possess for the
early spring weather when the days
are too warm for the heavy cloth or
velvet coat.