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Show Hold Ostrich Plumes for Return to Favor If feathers ever come back Into favor fa-vor many a poor man will make a fortune. for-tune. There are still many ostrich feathers In storage at customs warehouses ware-houses in Britain. The plumes were left on their owners' hands when the fashion changed. Some of them would have been extremely ex-tremely valuable 20 years ago. Now they can be used only In making cushions cush-ions or dusters, while a few of the smaller feathers are sold each year to dressmakers for the costumes of debutantes de-butantes who are to be presented at court The fact that synthetic feathers are now being made causes the value of the real ones to depreciate still more. Yet a number of dealers believe that feathers will come back soon, and are determined to keep the rarer phintes till they do. London Answers. |