WHAT WOMEN FUR BUYERS SHOULD KNOW 41 



That is exactly what has happened in the sales of 1920. Good 

 furs never sold so high. Poor furs never sold so low ; and many a 

 foolish buyer had to buy in his own poor offerings. Such traders 

 are out of the game. The banks will extend them no more credit; 

 and every woman, who loves furs and wild life, has the remedy in 

 her own hands. Let her buy her furs with the fine taste and care 

 she would buy a diamond necklace, or an oil painting. A woman 

 is known not by the jewels she wears but by the hands inside the 

 jewels. So she is stamped by her furs. Not by the cost but by 

 their suitability ; and a woman, who wears #30,000 worth of pelts 

 on her carcass, proclaims herself as great a game hog as the drunken 

 sot who goes out and slays a mother fox with her unborn young. 



A friend of mine went into one of the most exclusive shops of 

 New York not long ago. She was shown two fur coats ; one for 

 $3000, another for over #30,000. The first was for one of the great- 

 est women philanthropists in America, who was buying it for life- 

 long wear as she would buy a summer camp. The other was for a 

 newspaper head liner, who had come up from the gutter via the dance 

 hall and forgotten the marriage ceremony in her climb. In each 

 case, the furs proclaimed the woman. 



