FURS FROM THE FAR NORTH.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1306, 20 April 1918, Page 4

FURS FROM THE FAR NORTH.

Without a shadow of doubt, furs are not only the most attractive accessories to winter dress, but the most necessary, for who cares to face winter winds without a set to mitigate their severity? This season has brought in the prettiest, quaintest shapes, and all these new ideas may be seen, expressed in a wide variety of the best quality skins, at the London Fur Shop, next to the Queen's Theatre in Hereford Street. The manager, Mr Burt, travels periodically to the far trading posts on the Hudson, buying the peltry direct from the Indian trappers. From the cold and frozen north the skins are sent to London to be treated, and turned into sets of furs of the latest style and pattern. And every winter an assortment of these furs comes to Christehurch, where they find eager purchasers—they will be doubly eager this year, for a tremendous shortage faces the fur market, and next year the prices will be doubled. The fact that all of the London Fur Stores' stock is genuine—not an imitation or a "shoddy" amongst the lot —is naturally a great attraction, as real skins can be trusted to last for years and years an! always look well. The varieties of furs shown are endless, and include seal, fox of all colours, skunk, mink, black and grey wolf, sable, marten, musquash, fitch, mole, etc. A magnificent seal muff and "shawl" cape is a very enticing feature of the window exhibit. There are fascinating "dog collars" of fur, and the prett}' little round capes that promise to have such a vogue this winter. Altogether the London Fur Store is a very interesting place to visit, and those thinking of making purchases ! n this direction should take heed of the old adage that delay is dangerous. The store has only been opened since Monday, and in that time there have been considerable sales. The nij> in the air these moonlight nights may have something to Ho with it, and perhaps the romance of the fur-laden sleighs, swiftly gliding over the snow and ice, may have thrilled the imagination of buyers, and made them long to have a part in that high adventuring, even if it were but a set of furs thus wrested from the cold and frozen north. 7