The FASHION REVIEW

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 294, 27 June 1929, Page 2

The FASHION REVIEW

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FUR FASHIONS, 1929. The Evolution of the Fur Scarf. “ Convenience ” is the reason of the fur trade. The wholesale institution of fox farms after the war has everything to do with it not that madam ever entirely discarded her sables (every woman over her teens knows the softening influence of furs). She merely left them at home during the war because they interfered with her efficiency in soup kitchen and hospital. Yet never was woman more active than in 1929. She golfs, fishes, swims, jazzes, motors and flies—and these are but a tithe of her activities. So, for madam and mademoiselle, the light luxurious fur scarf has evolved. For wear with sports costumes and suits of the “ trotteur ” type the slim little chokers of marten or sable are most successful in relieving the severe collarless effect that Paris is now emphasising. The one, two and three skin scarfs arranged in the slender string effect give the desired straight line to a tailored costume.

As popular if not quite so new is the doable silver fox scarf, with the masks meeting in the centre of the back. One must at least be of middle height to wear this with aplomb. Then comes a procession of other foxes —natural fox, wearing all the tints of a harvest field, red fox, with those of a beech forest in autumn, grey fox in the tones of a granite hillside, and last, glistening like an ice field, the Arctic foxes. Again, augmenting the handiwork of nature, science has produced dyed scarfs, in beautiful undertones, beige in tones of rose, grey shaded with delicate blue, or warm rose, blonde beige in honey-coloured undertones. These are soft’y alluring worn with the more feminine costume, for calls, for bridge, for the racecourse. At the hunt last week I saw three charming styles for the jacket coat, the ensemble and the tweed coat. One, a cravat of mink, was a flat fur scarf shaped like a man’s tie but with two wide ends. One end was slipped through a slash and thrown over the right shoulder (an idea that one could quite well carry out in chiffon or printed satin for the spring, in Astrakan for colder days). The second was of skunk made with short rounded ends, one of which was drawn through a slash. The third was long, of fine white ermine, knotted at the throat with one end allowed to hang over the other. Like the hand bag, the fur scarf has become an essential accessory. So has the fur coat. Many of the latest models are carried out in the wrap-round style with huge double collars and cuffs. The points of skirt draperies escape from this type of coat in graceful lines. So if you are thinking of buying a fur coat, why not one resembling this sable model with the wrap collar, scarf and tails? If you add a fur cap for motoring, so much the better.