"VULTURE" FANS
LATEST FOR WOMEN The scavenger vulture is to take the place of the bird of paradise in its relation to women’s dress. “Vulture” fans, masquerading as “bird of paradise” fans, will be seen shortly in the company of other new fans made of cock’s feathers coloured a brilliant sapphire blue and fans of natural flamingo feathers. The vulture fans are made in soft flame colours mounted on dark tortoiseshell. It is the latest discovery that the feathers of a common vulture, subjected to an intensive “treatment,” which consists of thinning, colouring, and tinting, can be made to resemble bird of paradise plumage. The difference, in fact, between the two plumages, after the necessary treatment, can be detected only by the eye of an expert. Since the Plumage Bill, and the prohibitions with regard to the use of bird of paradise feathers in England, infinite labour and ingenuity have been directed to the search for a possible substitute, now discovered in this unlikely source—the scavenger vulture.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 5
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