Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1920 - Feb 1921)

Carmel Mvers' coloring makes seal and squirrel an excellent combination for her. Try Your Fur If you're her type, it's wise to make your By Louise SOMEBODY ought to compile an alphabet of furs," declared the Young Matron, as we started for our afternoon walk up Fifth Avenue. "Something like 'B is for beaver and blondes,' and 'S stands for squirrel and sloe-eyed brunettes, .Or it might take the form of a creed, 'Thou shalt not wear seal if thou art neither very young nor very old,' and 'Wear ermine if thou art a blue-eyed blonde, and thy popularity will be great — likewise thy bills at the cleaner's.' Something on that order, you know — just to save women who don't know what kinds of fur to wear from going out and spending a lot of money, and then looking about as stunning or fashionable as if they'd skinned the family cat and made her hide into a neckpiece." Well, I don't wholly agree with the Young Matron's flippancy ; having had two fur coats in her trousseau and having been given a sable scarf for her birthday she's not exactly qualified to dole out advice to the rest of us. But in a way she's right ; Broadtail and kolinslc wear furs that aren't really suited to your and Edith Roberts~vou looks, and, though, of course, they'll keep you couldn't find anything warm, they won't serve a double purpose and prettier in fur coats. add to your appearance as well. Even the screen star who has many a fur wrap and neckpiece must make selections carefully, and you can profit by their experience and choose furs to suit your type just as they do. Photo by Joel Feder For example, there's Carmel Myers. Carmel is a decided brunette, with ivory-tinted skin and very dark eyes and hair and very red lips — almost Spanish coloring. Furthermore, she's young — and age must always be a deciding factor in buying furs ; the wrong kind can add ten years to your age in the twinkling of an eye. Carmel Myers has several very beautiful fur wraps, but her favorite, and perhaps the most becoming one, is of seal, with cuffs and collar of very dark-gray squirrel, with brown markings. The fur coat's collar must always be carefully considered, since only a slender girl can afford to wear the big, rather bulky, collars. Squirrel is well suited to this treatment, as it is soft enough to drape well. The collar of Miss Myers' coat is very deep, and can be worn turned well up about the head, or lying flat down over the shoulders. The combination of seal and squirrel for any one of her coloring is particularly good, since, though the black of the seal would be becoming to her, it is also rather old, and needs to be counteracted by a lighter fur near the face. While we are on the subject of gray squirrel we might pause for a word of advice to the lighthaired girls who are partial to it. As a rule, gray is most decidedly not for blondes, despite the fact that many of them seem to believe that it was made for them. Few yellow-haired girls have enough color in their skins — I refer not to pink cheeks, but to the underlying tone of the skin — to wear gray without losing by it. The brunette with vivid coloring, such as Miss Myers', can wear gray admirably. So can the bronze-haired girl with gray eyes, and the gray-haired or white-haired woman — to them it is especially becoming. Edith Roberts is another dark-haired girl who likes to wear black, but she selects a different combination of furs, and a most effective one. She is shown here in a very beautiful imported coat of broadtail, made on loose, much draped lines which are well suited to her youthful slimness. The back of the coat is very full — in fact, the coat is made in popular dolman style. And the big, soft collar and wide cuffs are of imported kolinsky, of a deep brown that is most becoming to Miss Roberts. Here again, you see, 'we have black fur counteracted by lighter collars and cuffs.