Word: chinchilla
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Hedy Lamarr lost $19,000 worth of warmth and beauty to burglars who called while she was out. Among the missing: a chinchilla coat ($5,000), her engagement ring ($12,000). Hedy bought...
Hedda Hopper, high-styled Hollywood gossip, wife No. 5 of marrying DeWolf Hopper's six, hopped to Manhattan for the opera opening, appeared in a chinchilla coat which she boasted was the only one in Hollywood-except for 88-year-old Lady (Elsie de Wolfe) Mendl's. She declared she would never marry again, explained why: "What I attract is too young. What I should attract...
...Lord & Taylor bought full-page ads, burbled: "Tonight-fabulous word once more. Now that we're dressing for it . . . once more." In San Francisco, Columnist Lucius Beebe applauded "the prevalence of opera hats and white ties" in the cream-&-gold opera house, a "lavish frame for chichi and chinchilla...
Another damper was the lack of good fur, real wool. French ingenuity did its best. Rabbits became everything up to ermine and chinchilla. Cats, rats, moles were tinted and tortured into sealskin and beaver. But Parisians faced a cold winter without much coal. Said the Chicago Daily News' correspondent Helen Kirkpatrick: "If some enterprising couturier could acquire an unlimited supply of wool . . . the most popular collection would be one showing woolen underwear...
They argue that chinchilla has been off the market for so long that it is virtually a new fur, and has to resell itself. But many a furrier doubts that it will. Chin chilla fur is so perishable - and so valuable - that some owners have kept their coats in cold storage, brought them out only on state occasions. Ranchers say that the new "chins" are tougher, point out that most chinchilla coats in existence have already lasted 20 to 30 years. But, as one skeptical furrier cracked last week: "We have more people who want to sell chinchillas than want...