SUMMER FURS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19485, 15 November 1926, Page 9

SUMMER FURS.

. "The new 'summer furs' are very, exotic," writes a French fashion correspondent. " Not only are they dyed strange, wholly unexpected, colours, but in some cases the tips of the far are flecked •lightly with metallic paint. " A Very influential dress designer recently told me that one of the features of the summer season at Deauville and Biarritz .will consist of embroidered organdie muslin combined with ermine. " Creamy-white ermine for white organdie, puce with puce, flesh-pink muslin with soft fur of exactly the same tint are examples of such an alliance. " That we are in for an 'ermine season* is certain, and this, of course, means a brisk trade in white rabbits of superlatively fine quality. " Certain French furriers have acquired such skill in preparing and shaving rabbit skins that only an expert can tell them from the real thing. " Fox skins delicately flecked with silver or aluminium decorated an evening wrap made of silver-grey chiffon velvet which had a deep hem —also collar and cuffs—of pale-grev fox flecked, on the tips, with silver." The wrap was lined with silver lame, and the effect was altogether charming."