Wonderful Things Done With Fur ERMINE WORKED IN PETAL POINTS Flounces and Scallops

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 553, 4 January 1929, Page 5

Wonderful Things Done With Fur ERMINE WORKED IN PETAL POINTS Flounces and Scallops

j Wonderful effects are being j achieved in the art of the furrier in modern times, both in the dyeing and the working of furs, and the variety in fur coats and fur-trimmed coats is remarkable. A beautiful coat of broadtail and silver fox shown at a recent display was worked all over in numerous petal points, each petal representing a broadtail skin. The i silver fox collar was huge, and the cuffs of the same fur reached to the elbows. Four hundred ermine skins were used to make a magnificent cape trimmed with black fox. It took three months to join together the skins, which overlapped each other with a. novel and a very charming I effect. The cape was lined with | black velvet. Rare Black Fox Natural black fox trimmed a coat of seal musquash. This was a novelty, for not more than twenty foxes in ten years “come up” a perfect black. Another seal musquash coat was very lavishly trimmed with natural fitch. An evening coat of ermine collared with white fox had five flounces of the ermine at the wide cuff of each ! sleeve. Natural blue fox was used for the S extremely high collar and the lower part, very wide and full, of the sleeves of a raglan coat of mink. A black astrakhan coat had a collar and huge elbow-length cuffs of mink. A cape arranged in three tiers was of broadtail and ermine. Ermine dyed to look like squirrel made an attractive coat. A coat of seal musquash and ermine showed a very deep point of the ermine at the back. The Practical Fur Caracul is considered in Paris to be the practical fur. Trimmed with kolinsky, it made one of the smartest coats shown. A nutria model with two flounces at the hem was “designed to make the tall woman look short.” Ermine skins worked to a point in another coat aimed at a “slenderising” effect. Wide sleeves, scalloped at the hem. were a feature of a coat of black Persian lamb collared with celestial ! grey fox. A Thousand Moleskins Cleverly furthered moleskin, giving a patterned effect, made a coat which : was finished with a blue fox collar, j One thousand moleskins were used for this model. ! Cong ends of moleskin tied the big collar of a moleskin coat, the cuffs of which were also finished with strips of the fur. Pieces of leather were inserted between the ermine skins that made a lovely coat collared with white j fox, the idea being to show each skin more prominently. Natural summer ermine aud dyed broadtail, toning together beautifully, made a coat which had “balloon” sleeves to the elbow of the ermine. A half-length coat of alternate rows [of caracul and mole ambre made a | pretty beige and brown coat; it had

big pockets of the mole. Another sports coat was of American broadtail in two shades of brown. Natural ermine and blue fox were combined in a gorgeous wrap, the skins for which were selected from thousands of pelts to ensure perfect toning. Squirrel and Broadtail Dyed squirrel, in a brownish shade, and American broadtail made an unusual coat, which had two bands of the broadtail on the sleeves and on the skirt of the coat. Gauntlet cuffs of natural ermine appeared on a coat of beige broadtail, which had a flared skirt dipping at the back. American skunk, so like sable that it is almost indistinguishable from it to the expert, trimmed a coat of seal musquash, which was flared at the hem. Platinum caracul, the natural colour, made a charming coat collared with celestial white fox toned to a silver grey.

SO MUCH GOOD—! I One of the strongest aids to right thinking is a steady, invincible belief in the ultimate goodness of human nature. Looking back on the history of civilisation, taking into full account the madness and badness of many of its pages, who dares deny that good is a stronger motive power than evil? Cherish this belief, be a spiritual optimist, and you will win others to a like faith. Who would dwell in a cellar when a short climb brings us into the sunshine and a sweeter, purer air? Mistrust of fellow beings is one of the greatest obstacles to human progress. Those who have attained to the sublimest faith in the spiritual potentialities of their fellow-men have encountered, in their time, the very dregs of humanity. It is because they have discovered over and over again, in the most unpromising rough ore, some of the most scintillating gems of human conduct, that their faith in the highest transcends all the doubts and despairs. E.V.