SPEAKING OF FURS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18203, 2 March 1929, Page 14

SPEAKING OF FURS.

NEW COLOURS FOR TRIMMING. Wise women, anticipating autumn and winter, have already been thinking of furs, especially for trimming, and the new fur colours for fox, when used as trimming, are being shown on many coats. There is a strong feeling for cocoa, which also appears in caracul and sheared lamb, or, as it is called “ Americal broadtail,” to distinguish it from the real thing. Beige, without any pinky tone, and brown are also good. Some of the light coats are being trimmed with caracul and lambs paw, and also with natural grey broadtail. A contrasting fur next to the face is always becoming and young looking, and light furs are being freely used as trimming. A cocoa coat in caracul paw is trimmed with blue-dyed fox; a lovely coat in beigedyed Chinese broadtail has a collar of fox to tone. A seal musquash coat has a collar of cocoa Chinese broadtail. A coat in black broadtail has a collar of natural Russian sable. And so the fashion of contrasts goes on. The shorter pelts are preferred as the body of a coat, even when they may not be of luxury furs, as they are more slimming and becoming to the figure; but soft furs are becoming near the face, and fox is specially so. There is nothing that makes a woman look bigger than a lovely mink coat. Mink, in spite of being fashionable and costly, is not nearly so becoming as sheared lamb caracul or broadtail. And that is why the smarter women always have at least one fur coat in these becoming furs.