Furs in all lengths
and varieties were
exhibited, where else,
at Trappers Alley

Some jackets were mixtures of fur and other fibers.

Hoods accented many full-length coats.

HEIDI PRESS

Local News Editor

As Barbra Steisand's Pretty
Women and Maurice Chevalier's
Thank Heaven for Little Girls played
in the background, fur coats of every
description were modeled last week
at Trappers Alley.
Featuring furs from the Revillon
Haute Fourrure collection, the show
was presented by Trappers Alley and
the Fashion Group of Detroit, Inc., to
benefit the Tavy Stone Resource
Center, named for the late Detroit
News fashion writer, adjacent to the
fashion gallery at the Detroit Histor-
ical Museum.
The Fashion Group is an inter-
national organization which raises
funds for fashion scholarships, hospi-
tals and cultural and educational in-
stitutions.
Coats in colors of grey, brown,
rust, white and gold were shown in

various lengths — ankle, pant-coat
and dinner jacket. Some had shawl
collars while others bore Mandarin-
style necklines or hoods. Others
were mixtures of furs or furs with
other materials.
The Carolina Herrera-styled
coats and jackets were exhibited - in
three scenes — one depicting fall,
with straw, pumpkins and a scarec-
row, another an elegant parlor and a
third, a snow scene, as models pre-
tended to bundle up in elegant mink,
fox and lynx.
Less formal coats were accented
with black head wraps and colorful
gloves and berets. More formal —
and expensive — coats were high-
lighted by more stylish hats with
veils, sequined and unsequined, and
glittery head wraps.
Adding atmosphere to the pre-
show festivities, an actor dressed as
a fur trapper mingled with the more
than 100 guests. ❑

Linda Radin

FABULOUS

Jackets were highlighted with colorful hats and gloves.

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