FOR LITTLE DOGS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 133, 2 December 1937, Page 24

FOR LITTLE DOGS

FASHIONS IN PARIS

At the Paris Exhibition there is a section which shows how Parisian dogs may be just as fashionable and well dressed as anyone else, states an English writer. A dog, after all, has really more variety than the average male human being on an average occasion, in that he can wear colour and he is not restricted in the matter of collars. Here collars are naturally the chief feature, and they range from wonderful plaited leather and metal studs of surpassing intricacy to the bulldog's halo of badger hair set into a plethora of riveting. There are little coats, beautifully worked, both in cloth and in leather, little boots—and if cows are shod, why not little dogs? The coats have pockets in which is a handkerchief.

Tho chief point is less that little dogs should have articles of wear and decoration even as do human beings, but that in this section human beings take their cue from little dogs. A collar of finely woven or embossed leather, for instance, is the idea inspiring the lead and also the gloves which hold the other end of the lead. When a little dog takes his mistress out he is at pains to see that she has the best that he knows. Her scarf is stitched, even as liis coat is stitched, and she1 has care 1 hat her shoes are not too remote from canine conceptions of these articles. The tou-tous and lou-lous of Paris have long been blest with all the refinements of civilisation, but only now have these been recognised in a window in the International Exhibition which is virtually given up to them.