DOGS IN PARIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 16, 20 January 1939, Page 11

DOGS IN PARIS.

TARTAN COATS POPULAR. Bedlingtons and Sealvhams arc among the more popular dogs ill Paris, though poodles and Pomeranians also have a warm place. At this time of year, when women are attending the new collections of dresses, dogs are also attending to their wardrolies, and if they do not all wear goloshes or have coats with pocket handkerchiefs they are particular in the choice both of coat and of harness —or of the bright straps which constitute their leads. This year knitting is all the vogue, for dogs as well as for huiirin beings, and smart dog shops are displaying the coats which will be worn by the best dogs this year. These are of tliickisli knitting, with plenty of purl and plain to make it a tight lit. Still more, the knitting has to follow some tartan pattern, which, if not canonical, is well adapted to the dog world. There may be seen gay tartans, like the Stewart, demurer tartans like the 42nil. Whatever the coat, it liehoves the dog to have some clan or other. The coats, off, might lie liot-water-bottle covers or shapes for the larger sausages. The neck is brought up fairly high and the coat buttons or ties according as the wearer is a high or a low dog. For a rather low dog the underside of one coat was made of macintosh, and the coat fastened with bows down the back, French dogs do not sccni to have the same sense of ridicule as the British, and they wear their clothes with an air almost e<|ual to that of their mistresses, who know that if Paris is not right nothing else is.