Appearance:  “The Javanese coat is one of their most distinguishing features—a soft, silky, single coat that lies close to the body,” says Harper and White. These cats are sometimes called Oriental Longhairs or Colorpoint Balinese or even British Angora, Foreign Longhair, or Mandarin. The confusion comes from breeding the Siamese to have a different, longer hair coat and varying colors. To find this new standard, breeders chose to cross the Siamese with the American Shorthairs and Abyssinians for the multitude of colors and then crossed back to the longer-haired Angoras and Persians to obtain the longer coat of silky texture. Harper and White say the Javanese is a “study of contradictions: refined, sometimes fragile in appearance, while in reality they are hard and muscular, with surprising strength.” The colors are red, cream, blue-cream, and lilac-cream; tortie point in seat and chocolate; lynx point in seal, chocolate, blue, lilac, red, chocolate, tortie, blue-cream, lilac-cream, and seal tortie. Sounds like ice cream!