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...more formal wear, he has a backless calfskin evening dress stenciled to look like giraffe, a floor-length, tent-shaped Mongolian lamb coat that, with peaked hood attached, exposes only the eyes, and a white broadtail wedding dress with a ten-foot train. His showstopper is a black broadtail coat that is full of holes. It brings the peekaboo look to furs, can be worn over a full-length evening dress or nothing more than a body stocking-as shown in Kaplan's shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Fun Furs | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

...cocktails in a fur-banded sheath, slip into a fur-topped evening dress, and the last thing at night clean her teeth with a fur-trimmed toothbrush and climb into her fur-trimmed pajamas. Furriers also are busily promoting complete fur costumes. Notable this season: a black Russian broadtail skirt and matching jacket worn by Zsa Zsa Gabor and a broadtail curve-hugging evening dress with a swallowtail train worn by Marlene Dietrich, both designed by Maximilian. Other creations: a $15,000 sable-lined raincoat, a $65,000 sable greatcoat, and a $5,000 Fredrica-designed strapless mink sheath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Comeback | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...black fiber glass with a green leather seat, has front-wheel disk hubs which remain stationary while the wheels revolve, their airscoops cooling the front-wheel brakes. Pontiac showed off a streamlined version of a landau, with pink leather seats and ceiling lining and a carpet of black broadtail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Glass Ahead? | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...Russan broadtail cost-worth $750 was reported stolen from Dunster House J-Entry between 6:30 and 7 p.m. Saturday while its owner, Dee Stuerm of Simons, and her date, Robert R. Bramhall '51, were eating in the House. They reported the theft to the House janitor immediately and to University police yesterday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $750 Fur Coat Stolen | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...showing a $32,000 yellow convertible with upholstery of leopard skin and grey nylon satin and leopard skin floor rugs. Oldsmobile had a hard-top convertible with seats trimmed in green alligator hide, while Buick displayed a salmon-colored "Riviera" with a shocking pink interior trimmed in simulated broadtail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Big Parade | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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