ABSTRACT
All through the centuries furs have been associated with pride and prejudice, pomp and circumstance, and kings and rulers have decreed what fur must be worn and by whom. Furs have always excited envy, pride and puritanism. Cato denounced the wives of Roman patricians for the extravagance of wearing furs, and similar attacks have not been unknown when personal animosities have got out of hand in Borough Council Chambers. In the United States, where all women are equal, it would seem from their magazines that all furs are mink. The fur trade is the oldest trade in the world, started by the first cave man to find himself with a surplus skin.
