Before launching into the merits of the various furs available at the present season there is one aspect of fur purchase which has always seemed to some of us to be so peculiarly inapt. The women who can afford the best and warmest furs have little need for such, while the woman worker and the poor, who cannot aspire to fur, have the greatest need for its warmth.
The pampered female has her house warmed and her car also, the worker has to shiver at street corners awaiting tardy "buses, yet the former is provided with a covering which would be excellent for waits at windy corners, while the latter shivers in her thin cloth of inferior quality.
It is true, however, that in Shanghai the disparity of comforts can be much smaller than in some cities we could mention, We are fortunate here in that we are close to the source of supply of furs and have the advantages of local labour. Besides, warmth and comfort are not limited to the expensive types of fur, and many of the cheaper pelts are both fashionable and comfortable.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.