COLOURED FURS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 37, 12 August 1930, Page 13

COLOURED FURS

-REMARKABLE EXHIBITION

The International Fur Exhibition opened in Leipzig recently by Herr Schick, tho Prime Minister of Saxony, is called Jpa for short, from tho initials of its German namo, says the "Daily Mail." .

It might very well have boon called womaii and her furs, for the exhibits give the. whole story, starting in the wastes of Siberia and Alaska, the steppes of Asia, and tho forests of Canada (or "less romantically in the European rabbit farm,), of the ermine and sable cloaks of tho rich and tho sealskin coats and chinchilla wiaps— genuine Lapin, madam. —which even women with very small incomes can afford. Ono soes what can be done to make a tyoman look grander than she can possibly afford to be. There was for instance what appeared to be a perfect Silver fox skin, but a truthful exhibitor admitted that it was made out of lambskin. The furs that tho Hungarian cannot imitate in lambskin are, ■in factj not worth mentioning. The. process of turning the skin-which,the trappor takes from the animals into the dainty garments ?n which women look, ..so charming is shown in the nails of tho exhibition from beginning to-end. ■ Tho British soction does great credit to tho organisers and, as a Gorman expert remarked, is one of the best things in tho entire exhibition.

In the French, section Paris has her last word in the fashions in fur, and shows pelts, especially white fox, dyed the loveliest colours —pal© green, rose, forget-me-not blue. It appears that niadame must have a different fur for every frock.

We are told that thore are now over 500 farms in Germany alono where silver foxes and other fur-bearing animals are brod, and in Canada tho number has risen by leaps and bounds in the last few years.