FANS.

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 93, 14 January 1929, Page 4

FANS.

Some novel fans, showing the collaboration of artists and jewellers, are shown in London, according to re-, ports. There is the “mask” fan, which consists of a portrait of the owner painted on vellum, and has a jev elled handle. A well-known artist in Parts has been painting these fans, and to have one signed by him is a great thing/ There are small fans of reversible sa’tin or velvet and lame. These depend for their importance upon the gold aud jewels in the handle. Then, of course, there are feather fans of many kinds, long plumes with jewelled spines and quills rising from a mass of soft feathers, each quill centred with diamante or coloured stones to match a dress ornament. A quaint and useful fan has for centrepiece a seascape In which the “sea” is a small mirror. At the top and bottom of the handle arc small slides, which, opened, show a powder puff and powder in one and a lipstick, etc., in the other. The moon in the picture is cut out and replaced by silver gauze, through which the lass may see what is going on while she retouches her complexion. The reverse side has another charming picture on it. According to a dictionary, a fan is “an instrument for disturbing the atmosphere,” but one feels that these wonders of this maker's art will disturb a good deal besides the atmosphere ! • « •