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WINTER FASHIONS.
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Long Coats with Fur-Trimming.
FUR is a wonderful thing to give a
touch of luxury to your ensemble.
With a good fur and a smart
hat, your hair well dressed and your
complexion as good as nature and beauty
cosmetics can make it, your appearance
san be most attractive.
The tailor-made suit calls for fur, but
on the winter coat you may have broad-
tail, astrakhan, beaver, bunny in many
guises, or any other fur yoi; desire. The
new long coats are all fur-trimmed on the
shoulders, sleeves and neck. Many sleeves
are trimmed high above the elbow, and
you wear gauntlet gloves of fur if you
jike. Other sleeves have .plain fairly close
fitting cuffs from the elbow down and
puffs of fur above the elbow.
As_ a general rule this winter, when
fur is U6ed on coats it is treated with
scant respect. To trim the shoulders of
a coat or tue sleeves, it is cut up into
ßtrips, tabs, and yokes, and every other
shape imaginuble. It is set on the hips,
looped about the arms and twisted about
the neck. In fact, only foxes are treated
with some dignity. These are proudly
stretched out and curled round with their
heads so placed as to gaze up at tho face
of the woman who wears them, or their
noses may meet in thc middle of thc back.
Foxes are silver blue and black for the
most part.
Colours and Materials.
Rough, soft woollens with or without
ribs, are used for coats, long and short.
In woollen crepe plain and embroidered,
in velvet a velveteen, the choice of a
blouse is wide, lt may fasten down in
front, or at the side, or slantways across
the chest. Ottcrman silk, satin and velvet
are used for jerkins, and all the funny
little basqued blouses that are worn. But-
tons and little bars of wood are newer
than clips for fasteners on these blouses,
jerkins, jumpers, etc.
Green in several shades is universal
olive, spinach, bottle, jade are some of
the many green shades. Dusty grey, iron
grey and light grey, too, are used, and
usually with some bright colour. Brown
in dark chestnut and cinnamon is seen
everywhere; so are Bordeaux reds, rust
reds, quite a lot of reds, in fact. Some
blues are worn-pale blue sapphire and
turquoise being the chief. Lots of bows
are also popular, most of them big, with
ends, and on the left shoulder. It is to
be a rich if not a gaudy season.
Trimmings and Skirt Lengths.
Models have been untrimmed for so
long that we have forgotten all about such
things, but just now the Paris dress-
makers are trying to revive them. They
like monkey fur and feathers among other
things, but beware of such trimmings
they scratch and tickle!
Lielong makes capes fringed deeply with
monkey fur. and for evening he has them
fringed with ostrich feathers.
The new evening sleeve movement >f
Lelong's is interesting. He draws dra-
peries back from the shoulders arid car-
ries them down the back to form a bow
and ends at the waist. Lelong also trims
the hem of the skirt. Thc hips are quite
slim and plain.
SkirtB have changed but little during the !
last few months. They are narrower for
the morning, and not long. The afternoon ]
sees them a little longer but still very
slim, and any fullness that there is is
below the knees. They remain about the I
same length for the evening as we have
been wearing, which means that some are
to the instep, some touch the floor, and
some are trained.
Lelong loves looped sleeves, Jong ones,
and looped draperies on skirts. He says
they give life to a dress.
It is in the sleeves and the skirt hems
that there is change. Sleeves are trim-
med perpendicularly with fine flaps, piped
seams, and bands of fur. Fin pleats below
and about the knees are used on tailored
skirts and on little afternoon dresses.
You might say that pleats and seams are '
used inside out.
-K.W.J.R.
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