Word: chinchilla
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...Dime. Today José and his wife Hilda live in a $60,000 home an hour's drive down the coast from Los Angeles. There they are surrounded by 400 birds, tanks of tropical fish, six dogs and a small chinchilla farm. The new mode of Jose's life is a little bewildering to members of his family, some of whom even think wistfully of the old days in Manhattan. "In a way it was nice to be poor," says his 18-year-old brother, George. "We could get so much fun out of a little dime...
Freelance Writer Gloria Steinem played Lady Macbeth in a Luis Estevez creation that consisted of five widely spaced bands of chinchilla held together by transparent black net. In between was supposed to be little more than a bare bodkin. "I'm supposed to have on one body stocking," confided Gloria, "but I have on three." "I like to look pretty, not kooky," said Chessie Rayner, explaining why she put on a white silk slip underneath Bill Blass's fishnet A-line dress...
...copy without being exposed to the whims of devilfish writers. And, alas, even TIME is now tapiring off in a manner that has us aphid linguiphiles so worked up we could spitz! Weasel all be happier if you stick with straight news copy. Too much of that other stuff chinchilla...
...those who cannot kick the coat habit, fashion designers are now serving up fun furs instead of practical parkas. Some are strictly fluff and nonsense, like Revillon of Saks Fifth Avenue's $5,550 chinchilla jacket with matching boots. Others are almost tough enough to tumble in, like Walt Stiel's $375 mustang, stenciled to look like giraffe. Still others have prices that are actually fun, like McGregor's $50 mock crocodile jacket...
...alone. Bergdorf Goodman has a zany "zebra" dress made from Italian lamb and Russian broadtail. The black broadtail stripes are individually cut and hand-sewn into the white lamb, all for $2,700. Pour l'après ski, Revillon has whipped up a horizontally stitched chinchilla jacket with matching chinchilla boots...