Word: boa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cobra gladiator vest at Kamali. Betsey, Bunky and Nini, another boutique, has appliquéd snakeskin stars onto belts and has imported Ossie Clark's $200 cobra patchwork waist jacket. Manhattan's Casa Cuero boutique isn't interested in just any old snake; it is boa that turns them on and their patrons out-in midis, minis, jeans and jackets, everything boa but the belts, which are cobra...
...snake." Fortunately for Fleming Joffe Ltd., biggest U.S. supplier of snakeskins, many women cannot. The company did a $1 million-plus trade in skins last year, with python the biggest seller (naturally black and white, the skins are often bleached out and dyed other shades or hand painted) and boa and cobra close behind. "In fact," says Snakeskin Salesman Rocco Selvaggi, "where the boas are concerned, we're selling whatever we can get our hands on." Business is expected to double by the end of this season...