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Leggers & Muggers. The crooks that merchants fear most are the professionals, many of whom work for fences and steal selectively (current high-priority target: suede coats). Store detectives never cease to marvel at the professionals' ingenuity. Some have been known to take six dresses into a fitting room, emerge wearing all of them, one over the other, and march right out of the store. Others employ such traditional equipment as the "booster box"-a gift-wrapped package with a spring-loaded trap opening-or the "Harpo Marx" coat, a shapeless, voluminous outer garment that, inside, is a marvel...
Time was when a woman expected to wait until ripe middle age before she was presented with a mink coat-if she got one at all. "Today," says Sam Mellon, manager of Chicago's Evans Furs, "they're buying them at 19 or 20." One of the reasons is that mink coats, formerly the badge of the successful matron (or mistress), have succumbed to the youth-oriented trend in fashion. Coats are now short, shaped to the body and sometimes come pieced together to create checks, stripes and herringbone patterns...
With personal assets of perhaps $6,000,000, Illinois' Senator Charles Percy is hardly prototypical of the impoverished public servant whose wife must make do with a Republican thrift-shop coat...
...Metropolitan State, Mrs. Stoney helps children to express themselves in all of the creative arts. She places herself somewhere between a teacher and a therapist. "A teacher hangs up her subject with her coat when she comes into the room," Mrs. Stoney said. "She always keeps sight of that subject. But she's mainly working with disturbed children...
...recently forced to pay an extra half fare for a seat to carry his $40,000 Guarnerius from New York to Chicago. One airline went so far as to refuse to let a woman passenger keep her crutches at her seat, insisting that they must be stowed in the coat compartment. Coeds have been barred from boarding with stuffed shopping bags, and hippies have faced a similar rebuff. Last week a teen-ager headed for San Francisco in Levi's, sweatshirt and bare feet painted bright red approached a TWA gate in Chicago. "You can't get aboard...