14 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
Babies 
A SPECTACULAR CREATION IN SCOTCH MOLE AND 
SIBERIAN GREY SQUIRREL 
It contains about 64 squirrel and 300 mole skins. Value, $675. 
tion is the man with the fur-lined overcoat rid- 
ing in the subway bravely striving to bear up 
under the burden of unnecessary fur. The 
chauffeur is practically the only man in city or 
suburban life who really needs a fur overcoat 
and has one. The vast majority of the men and 
women who need them most are too poor to pur- 
chase them. The idea that wool can take the 
place of fur does not seem to enter the mind 
who has in his bank account the 
Having myself faced Mon- 
of the man 
price of the latter. 
COAT OF NATURAL RACCOON, ABOUT 25 PER CENT 
WASTEFUL 
It contains about 28 skins. Value, $275 to $475. 
tana gales in a short chinchilla coat when the 
temperature was ten degrees below zero, I can 
testify that fur is not the only thing that can 
keep a man warm. 
A survey of some of the illustrations repro- 
duced hereafter will reveal the fact that great 
quantities of fur are wasted by making cloaks 
and wraps unnecessarily full, and collars and 
capes ridiculously ample. It is not an uncom- 
mon sight to see a fur-wearing lady so loaded 
down with skins that she stands forth as a moy- 
ing mountain of fur, often devoid of feminine 
shape because her form is completely masked 
by a superabundance of skins. Is it not strange 
that this condition is not recognizable at a glance 
by every feminine fur wearer? 
