UNKNOWN FURS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 114, 18 May 1925, Page 13

UNKNOWN FURS

The reports of the list fur sales illustrate the efforts thaj Bre made to find effective novelties in wearable 6kins. To the ordinary reader, however, some of the terms are not a little puzzling. Who, for instance, if offered a tie or wrap in viscacha, could say whence it came or to what species it belonged ? asks an English correspondent. As a matter of fact, it is from South America, and may be described as a somewhat humble, relative of the more lordly chinchilla. Tho fur itself is dark grey, rather shaggy in character, and there are somewhat badger-like markings of black and white about the face. The suslika, which has also made nn appearance, seems to be something between a ground squirrel and a mole, and hails- from Siberia.' A few examples of the striped chipmunk of North America have founfl their way to the London market, bur. they are so small that they aro not available for broad effects. Parks is said to be making use of rcnardeau. which means fox-cub. • and some other pelts so strangely designated as to defy identification. A new art. it would" seem, has been evolved in tho gilding of rvonkev and gottt; fur. and this, it is thought, will enjoy favour for sumptuous eveningwraps.