Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-24
With Goats of These
Materials Offered in
Great Variety,
There Are Induce.
m ents to S e e k
Worth While Gar.
ment-Some Selec.
tons w hich Are
Sure to Pass Test
When Cooler Days
Arrive.
BY MARY MARSHALL.

IF 1t Is true, as the old-fashioned
farmers say, that cold Winters fol-
low excessively hot Summers, then
Il we shall have need for furs this
Winter. But even If the old saying
proves to be all wrong and the Winter
turns out to be mild and balmy, furs
will still be unusually important from
fashion point of view. We may not
actually need them to keep out the
cold. but we will certainly need them
to be in fashion.
TT is not difficult to make these pre-
dtctionS for Autumn and Winter, be-
cause fashions for furs are by this time
fairly well established. Furs of good
quality, like fine jewelry, are too valu-
able and require too much laborious
workmanship to be left to last-minute
whins of fashion.
OF course, we all know by this time
that black is to be extremely smart for
street wear this Winter. Black always
IS smart for street wear, so we should
like some new word to express a super
lative quality of smartness to apply to
black as it will appear with the coming
OF Autumn.
There is nothing to surpass the
emartness of black caracul, especially
the soft, pliable baby caracul that is
used for some of the finer coats. Ones
impression of the new black caracul
coat is associated with silver fox which
is used for the collar or may be used
for cuffs as we'll. One of the most
admirable of all the new black caracul
coats We have seen had collar and cuffs
of sable-dyed kolinsky-and a black
pony was collared and cuffed with
natural fitch.
TO many persons the new browns are
much more interesting than black,
however smart it may be, and furriers
have not Jagged behind the dressmakers
in realizing the possibilities of making
the new browns desirable for Autumn
and Winter. All the furs of naturally
or conventionally brownsh cast-such
as nutria, beaver, mink, sable, fitch,
marten and kolinsky j have had due
consideration for Autumn. New and
smart is ermine-dyed chocolate color
and lapin or rabbit similarly trans
formed by the dyers.
Mole, which bridges the gap between
9urS that are gray and those that are
brown, has been revived. In spite of
its fragility it has been employed for
many of the smartest of the new sport
coats, but the new mole is more durable
than mole as we knew it few years
ago. And it has the advantage of be-
ing one of the fine furs that are not
especially expensive.
Gray squirrel has been used for
number of smart coats for street and
sportswear. Gray sheared lamb and a
new bluish-gray shade % lapin add to
the variety of gray furs for the Au-
tumn.
X X X
CALAPIN, which is new sort of
~ shaved lapin or rabbit. is dyed in
various shades and will doubtless prove
to be one of the smartest of the less
expensive furs
One could write endlessly of the fdrs
that are offered in tempting versions
for Autumn-ocelot, or lecpard cat. a
South and Central American variety of
true leopard which comes only from
Asia and Africa; muskrat a dense, soft,
durable fur that is often treated ~
initiate seal; baum h1arten, with a
natural rich brown shade resembling