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Show STYLES SHOW : LITTLE CHANGE Fall Coats and Wraps Very Like Those Worn During the Summer Months. DOLMAN SHAPE IS RETAINED Predictions That It Would Lose Its Popularity Have Been Proved Unfounded Un-founded Capes of English Tweed for Those Who Motor, If one has been denied a fur coat for many years and has secretly cherished cher-ished a longing thereafter, this Is the year, doubtless, when this longing can be gratified, for so expensive are the lovely cloth things that If possession is based on the matter of cost then a decision in favor of the fur can be made, as there will be no very great difference In the price, remarks a fashion fash-ion writer in the New York Sun. Of course I am referring to the elaborate and dressy models which all women admire and not everyone can possess. Of course the sumptuous things of ermine, mink, sable and seal are regal and lovely in capelike and dolman effects ef-fects which swathe the wearer from tip to toe in a luxury indescribable. Just as In the fall dresses there is nothing radically differing from styles silky. The sleeves in this wrap ar really mere slits In the front sides and they too are edged with the monkey mon-key fur and form the collar, which is so made that it buttons up around the ears or falls away in a little cape effect. The lining of this handsome wrap is of white satin pailletted with huge black velvet dots. This fashion of doubling material adds as much to the cost as it does to the beauty of a garment and the fall cloak is apt to be as radiant inside perhaps even more so than the outside. Less pretentious than this silken wrap and very lovely is a handsome straight-hanging coat of tan camel's hair with perfectly unbroken lines down the back except for a tight plalu yoke across the shoulders. At the sides a pointed pocket effect is introduced intro-duced in brown seal, and the high rolling roll-ing collar which rumples around the throat is also made of the rich brown seal. The sleeves are long and tight and finished at the wrist with a narrow cuff of the brown seal. This is an excellent ex-cellent example of a conservative and beautiful coat suitable for every daytime day-time occasion. Velvet Wraps for Evening. So many women have invested in handsome fur pieces for wear with the one-piece dress that the demand for the untrimmed coat is met by the manufacturers man-ufacturers in velvet wraps for evening wear which have no fur whatever krii-ii?. l i fil-Sif ill ; i- t i i i P s n fir Klli ! Short coat cf tan jersey, exceedingly smart, with angora finish. The scarf and pocket flaps are of the cloth with all-over embroidery in yellow and black; on the whole exceedingly effective. For the later, cooler evenings of summer, and the beautiful fall days an elegant coat. It is made of taupe duvetyn with bands of braid, sauce color. It is extremely full at the bottom. The collar and cuffs are of beaver, with a panel of rich beaver trimming the front. of recent months., so in coats and wraps there is no departure from accepted ac-cepted models. In Army Style. A favored style is seen in the fine warm coats of camel's hair following the design of an officer's trench coat belted and close fitted for warmth and comfort. These lovely camel's-hair coats are often mounted with deep fur collars of softest texture, such as brown fox or lynx. The huge patch pockets and deep fur cuffs which were so in evidence a season ago are no longer featured so emphatically, either ei-ther on this sort of coat or on one of the velvetlike duvetyns or wool velours. The dolman shape persists in spite of the persistent rumors to the contrary, con-trary, and many of the most exclusive houses are showing the dolman, not only in the less expensive materials, but in the splendid furs and brocades and velvets as well. Much embroidery embroid-ery in self colors doue in heavy silken threads is observed perhaps for the reason that the great cost of fur will place it beyond the average pocket-book. pocket-book. A curious notion is seen in the use of monkey fur placed fringelike along the bottom of short jackets, and used also to trim fur toques. Monkey Fur Not Popular. The use of monkey fur on an evening even-ing wrap of heaviest black satin is not unpleasing, as it has bpen cleverly done, but monkey fur will not be greatly great-ly admired, however smart it may be considered. On the particular wrap which it embellishes the back has been caught up in a sort of overdrapery suggesting the drooping blouse the French makers exploit continuously. The fur is used as a bandim: underneath under-neath this dnipery and extends around to the Iroit and down the sides of i the cent. The very long hair has all H e -iV ( ..f fringe and is soft auJ about them. These are for the most part made up in rather simple designs with long, loose lines, plain, rather tight sleeves, and resembling elongated jackets. They are very graceful, and with the addition of one's own furs are quite as sumptuous as the average woman need demand. For motoring some very smart capes of fine English tweed are made with lamb's wool linings, which unbutton and can be quickly removed. These traveling capes are a delight for steamer and motorcar, and are copied from trench coats much used by officers offi-cers during the war. The tweed is so treated that it is impervious to rain. It is found that the heather mixtures and intermingled colored surfaces are much better for a wrap for general use than the solid colors, and for this reason smart coats in twilled cords and invisible stripes and mixtures are much in demand for bad weather wraps and general service. Of course many women find it practical prac-tical to use the coat suit through the winter season, and for this reason have the coat heavily interlined with lamb's wool or flannel. Tears ago we often saw the lining of jackets of this sort made of white and gray rabbit skin, also much used for the long and all-enveloping all-enveloping evening capes, but rabbit skin is costly these days, and one rarely finds it so employed except for motor ami ocean travel. It is quite possible to insert nn interlining in-terlining of one of the fleecy warm woolen fabrics without milling clumsiness clumsi-ness to the coat. No coinbinn tion is lovelier than one of the soft blue heather mixtures with a soft gray f;;r. due such coat suit has the plain sk'rt which is demanded on all the newest models and a rathe- short jacket in a box coat effect, except that it is nrtt distinctly a box coat, for a belt piaced across the hack prevents this. |