Evening star., 1962-11-01
FASHION NOTEBOOK
Paris Inspired Furs Here
By ELEM
Star Fashion Editor

land goes the old saying, and
as long as fashion and France
remain synonymous thereu
always be a boutique.
Things French naturally
fascinate Jaime Silverman,
seeing as she comes originally
from the City Of Light, Paris.
Bringing back new fur de-
signs and toiles from their
recent trip to France was the
major reason. for the Silver
mans trip, but in addition,
she decided to make a corner
of Capitol Furs a bit Of
France with her boutique Sc
lections.
In a way, it's q bit Of an
answer to the numerous peo-
pie who would comment, "Oh,
I wish you'd brought me back
one" when it was gift time
following a trip abroad for
them.
But the fur fashion news
the Norman Silvermans
brought back eclipses this
sidelight of their trip. Their
shows all this week (there's
another one tomorrow at $50
p.m0 are featuring the new
designs. StandoutS Of the
fashion foray include:
Jackets 'tin'
The brief mink jacket that
the European elegante pre-
fers to a stole. We noticed,
too, that in Vienna, Paris,
Copenhagen and London the
women who made a definite
fashion impression topped
their black crepes and pale
woods with a tiny mink jacket.
The chic suit right now in
Paris, is Of black leather.
Skinny skirts with little boy
jackets or brief boxy ones,
rate high with the aVant
garde fashion set. The love
of leather is legendary in Eu-
rope, where they hold animal
pelts in high fashion regard.
Capitol FurS found the trend
interpreted in an olivine
green leather coat whose
gently flared skirt was Of
dyed hairseal. Designed orig
inally by Nina Ricci, it's in
the new mood of casual, re-
laxed fur styling for the day.
time.
In fact, joked Norman Sill
verman, "our new designs are
so relaYed and easy, we con-
slider them to be the perfect
antidote for women for the
tensions of today"
Therell always be a gim-
mick where fur designers are
concerned. This fall and win
ter Of 1862 it's a fencer's
jacket of black seal that is
snapped on to a skirt Of
jaguar to make a fitted and
flared coat, when full-length.
Speaking of going full
length, which evening gowns
and evening coats are doing,
MIR. Silverman observes sew
eral chic women have ordered
full-length Norwegian Saga
blue fox evening coats to go
over their ballgowns. That's
really being wrapped UP in
luxury for gala time.
If the spots getting before
your eyes are getting some
what indistinguishable, and
you can't tell a leopard from
a jaguar, here's an easy bit
of a recognition course. Says
Mr.. Silverman, "the smaller
ones are leopard" as opposed
to the other cats spots. One
of the jaguar hits of the
new Capitol Furs collection
is a 7s coat with a high feel
ing to the ouble-breasted
closing. The revers and the
coats edges are bound in
black leather. Side Sits give
it a real Oriental sickness.
Another new note is seen
in a beaver coat that is
handled ever so lightly. not
only in its off-white COM
plexion, but in the fact it
reverses to a brocade evening
coat with edges of the fur
creating a new border treat
ment.
Since the animals that
populate furdom are many,
there are equally as many
ingenious ways to use them to
good fashion advantage. A
series of dyed muSkrat
designs in oyster white, blue,
and red provide colorful out
looks in many daytime furs
that are meant to keep a
woman warm and at the same
time to look different and not
be in the expensive category.
For the country set Mr.. Sill
verman has smart Tuscany
lamb coats, black and white
and Palomino calf jackets
and knit trimmed blousons
and overblouSes. These would
look great, with slacks, skirts,
and would also prove to be
the SkierS delight,