CATSKIN COATS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16375, 24 June 1927, Page 4

CATSKIN COATS

SRCRETS OF FUR, TRADE SYDNEY, June 9. A cat skin coat which has just been made up in Sydney is proof of the smart appearance ol tins apparel. The average woman and those in the trade admit the public—which is a notoriously poor judge of furs —would not know the coat, from one composed of the most costly of lurs. One of the. biggest of Sydney's furriers states that he recently shipped abroad 1000 cats'kins. He says the Continent will take as many, especially of wild cats'kins, as it can gel. The posts ot Australia arc to-day certainly a profit to those who are exploiting them commercially, thanks to women's obedience to the mandates and vagaries of the goddess Fashion. The world is now practically looking to Australia to supply its requirements for furs and coats, with the much-maligned rabbit as a base. Furriers are looking to the day when they will fie exporting each year, not merely £o,00(>,000 worth of raw rabbitskins, hut £10,000.000 worth of finished skins. At one of the lateib of Sydney's weekly sales 208 tons of rabitskins were offered, totalling close on 0.C00.000 skins. In America to-day, according to Sydney furriers, they are crossbreeding 1 rabbits to overcome the scarcity of the precious Chinchilla. They are called "Chin-rabbits." liven the poor little goats are not safe nowadays from the clutching hand of Fashion. Kidskin coat;-,, like calfskin coats, arc a French notion that is being taken up in Sydney.