SQUIRREL AS "SAELE"

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 84, 3 January 1920, Page 5

SQUIRREL AS "SAELE"

HUMBLE MOLESKIN. IN FASHION. The cokl weather of dying October has brought into wear wonderful fur ;<iiincnt (says an English exchange). Much of ]t > renovated and brought into lino with dictates, has scarcely l»en worn by its busy, war-working ownors tor years past. Moleskin, once a humblo pelt, is now very fashionable. A little garment called a visite," worked' in stripes, capcliko nt the back and ivith stole ends in the front, may easily cost 50 guineas. Natural beaver, short and broad, and worn like a muffler round the neck and shoulders, costs quite as much. A wide long stole'of Hud-on Bay sable is coneioered cheap at 220 guineas, whereas u mncli shorter scarf in .Russian sable amounts to nearly four times that sum, and other larger garments of the same pelt run into thousands of pounds ' Squirrel lins ten exalted to a place among the elite of peltry, but no longer wears its natural hue, for it is dyed In resemble the rare and opulent sable, ft is not a. cheap fur. A capacious blanof,nt: 70 guineas would in Hie natural grey, pelt cost about .£lO less, and in moleskin would descend another .£lO. A wrap-over coat, of seal mm. quash, with a beaver shawl collar and big cuffs, is generally considered more serviceable.