ALL WOMEN ADORE FURS Silver Fox Snobbery

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20786, 22 April 1939, Page 19 (Supplement)

ALL WOMEN ADORE FURS Silver Fox Snobbery

What you want to do is to watch silver fox wearers watching each other’s silver foxes, writes Cecile Lavinge fn the “Daily Mail.” Observe the close scrutiny that doesn't let a hair go unscathed. See the mercilt.is mental pricing that takes place. Silver fox snobbery is a ruthless snobbery. Women who own three-skin capes are made to feel terribly abashed in the presence of five and six-skin women. Owners of this-ye_ar capes, which all have the skins worked downward, look down from a great height on wearers of last-year capes, which usually had the skins worked horizontally. In the past fifteen years a great industry has grown up round this enchanting little creature, with his dowry of lustrous, silvered fur, his white-tipped black brush. Thousands of silver fox farms have came into existence all over the world. Once free, lawless, the silver fox fought and scratched and hunted for his living, roaming the forests of the great frozen North. In those days —not more than 17 years ago—he fetched a pretty price, something between £IOO and £l5O a skin. He was rare, and in danger of complete extermination. His rareness and his beautiful coat made him almost legendary.

To-day the fox has a most refined time down on the farm, his whole life's purpose being to propagate himself and, in doing so. to grow more and more perfect. In ensp von want statistics, there arc between if* 00 and 5000 silver fox farms in Canada alone, involving an annual turnover of £t.NOu.miO. In Norway. Sweden. Russia. German \ and England, fox farming is a tin- \ ii- and growing industry, offering unlimited opportunities. In England there are more than J"n silver tv.x farms. The industry is protected to make British silver foxes the best in the world.

If you are buying silver fox, and you want a good pedigree, these are the points to watch:— The fox should be blue-black where he is black—that is, on his neck and hindquarters—his body should be well silvered, his jet-black tail tipped with snowy white- The texture of the fur should be satin soft, the whole skin should feel like a well-padded cushion. But if you are out buying—and I’m addressing my remarks to women now —please remember that while there was never such a flatterer as silver fox, the wrong set-up of silver fox can ridicule you.

So. rf you are short and fat. never i go into a bulky rape You'll be shorter ! and fatter. If von look exotic by I nature, never wear enough fox to make ; people think Of V .11 as dripping with si:vor fox. \nd of emirse. .• yo„ xvll put xourself into long silver fox i ••oats.' you are s:mpl> asking lo look ! ■ Mentations and vulgar. [ Men. as a rule, hate hmg *:; V e r fox kind of men wh i hu> them f and then, you ar c shewing them off. I phasis on a woman's personality, not j a submerging.