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...Virginia, a superliberated black law student who next week will announce her candidacy for Congress. Ginny will also continue to suffer the affections of Clyde, a jive-spouting lay-about who buys a new Buick with silver-fox fur seats because "I'm into comfort...
Clarkson said that she had begun wearing her fur-coat to bed and, in an interview yesterday, Bossert described finding ice in a shower stall...
Greater Sin. Why is the fur industry coming back? For one thing, foreign demand for American furs has increased, largely because the long decline of the U.S. dollar has made them cheaper and thus more attractive abroad. At home the fur revival partly reflects new developments on the price and environmental fronts. The rise in petroleum prices has increased the cost of fake furs, many of which are based on petrochemicals; the retail price of a full-length fake "mink," now about $300, has risen about 20% since 1972 (but of course still costs much less than the real ranch...
...main factor in the fur boom is the new vitality and versatility of the fur industry itself. Says Jess Chernak, executive vice president of the American Fur Industry, the furriers' Manhattan-based promotional organization: "We changed what had been a conservative custom trade into a high-volume industry geared to young people and fresh styling...
While the industry is promoting furs as a bargain and stressing the fact that its prices have risen less sharply than other luxury goods, sales have also been brisk among such top-of-the-line items as $10,000 chinchillas and $25,000 sables. Says Jerome McCarthy, owner of Chicago's tony Thomas E. McElroy Co.: "For a while [the rich] weren't showing their wealth, but now they're indulging themselves." So, too, is the credit-card set, which today includes an ever growing number of liberated women earning their own incomes. As one Manhattan fur...