Fur coats strike a new note in
| fashion. Aside from their usual note
! of elegance, shown in the sketch at
I the right, there is the sports mode,
! best shown in the many pony coats
| now so much in vogue. Slim and
tailored, conforming as closely to the
lines of the figure as the severest
tailored cloth coat, and finished with
a military or short roll-collar of con
trasting fur. most often beaver. Ko
rova is a new’ fur being Introduced
this season—ln reality Russian calf.
It. too. is seen at its best in tailored
coats and aometlmes introduces a
novel kasha or plaid wool lining and
may be worn reversible. For dress
wear nothing could be more handsome
than the fur coat sketched, of per
fectly matched Japanese weasel, with
self-colored collar, cuffs and hem band
of fox.
When choosing bats one has but
a choice of the decidedly masculine
or the essentially feminine. The for
mer Is best depicted in the well
known Dobbs hats, one of which is
sketched. It Is of silky black velour,
with high, stove-pipe, square crown
and decidedly mannish band of gros
grain ribbon, in bright green and yel
low, finished with a cokade at one
side. The feminine note is beautl-
THE EVENING STAB. WASHINGTON, D. C„ THURSDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1926.
fully Illustrated in the rose velvet
draped turban at the right. Its only
adornment being a nacre ornament,
worn directly at the front. One F
street store, specializing in Reboux
models, offers an amazing variety of
these famous Paris hats, with im
mense crowns, intricately creased,
i with practically no brim to speak of.
