OSTRICH FEATHERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 228, 26 September 1931, Page 19 (Supplement)

OSTRICH FEATHERS

PLUMES FOR WOMEN. ABUNDANT SUPPLY ASSURED. To-day one big question is worrying women, says a woman writings in an English newspaper. It is this: Will there be an ostrich feather famine? When the new bowler hats were introduced and the big demand began it was immediately assumed that the supply of ostrich feathers for trimming the hats would soon be exhausted, since they have been so little used in recent years that only a few firms sell thenrr* . ,

But there is going to be no ostrich feather famine. There will be enough to adorn all the now bowlers, even if every woman in Britain wears one. Inquiries of firms in the ostrich feather tradfc show that they arc rising to the occasion splendidly. “Within the last month our output has increased six times,” one firm states. “We anticipate no great difficulty in obtaining enough feathers to meet the supply, however great it may become, although naturally the prices have risen. When tho fashion for wearing ostrich plumes died out years ago trade waned, but later survived, for we found methods of using the feathers in other ways.”