When the Weather Grows Cooler

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23879, 1 February 1941, Page 6 (Supplement)

When the Weather Grows Cooler

Furs Will Be News By VANITY HMIKRE is a vice-versa rule that is ' making news of furs. With economy in mind, many manufacturers in the past have made fabrics that look like lur.s, hut now the furriers have retaliated by making furs look like fabrics. The idea is attractive and most becoming, since it involves entirely new principles in the making and designing of fur garments of all sorts. Coats of sumptuous pelts are shaped with all the llare and elegance of pliant plushes. They have tiny hourglass waistlines and full skirts, and are distinguished by clever craftsmanship and tailoring. Sometimes the skirts ot fur coats are even gathered, and bodices pleated or rucked. Sleeves are

made in tiers, just as il thev were of the. silliest fabric, so wonderl'iillv contrived are they. Collars are high and t?nveli >|iinjuT, or else quite non-existent. In I'ur scarves the same rule of soft facile handling holds good. They are made to lie worn like cravats or capelets, and in many oilier exciting now ways that incorporate great dexterity in the making with extraordinary grace and ease in the wearing. The model sketched is a lavish four-skin collar of sable-dyed stone marten, to be worn with coats or costumes. By looping the furs over the shoulders, a squared line is achieved. Fur stoles are news, too, and in silver fox they are particularly unusual. Some are specially designed with trim little autumn suits in mind and have a mull attached at tho end.