Word: furred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MINK and sable, the Big Two of the fur world, can still be seen on the salon racks, regal as ever in traditional brown or black. But their luster is somewhat diminished this season by bright new competitors designed to make the fur-and the fur sales-fly. Right up there with the mink and the sable, the chinchilla, the ermine and the fox, are such low-status pelts as wolf, monkey, weasel, bull and yak. Without examining the label, however, even a zoologist would have trouble identifying the newcomers. For the furs have become checked, striped, flowered and wholly...
Moreover, the skins have been newly shaped. Although some elegantly fitted furs have always been available for years, most designs were amorphous clumps, minimally styled and varying only in depth of cuff and the width of hem. The new models are cut with an eye toward lean grace and contemporary flair. Now, there are gently fitted capes and coats, designed with spare straight sleeves and narrow shoulders and waists that do not swaddle the figure but merely graze it. Now, in fact, there is fur that does the work of cloth...
...mink is a mink," he says with reverence, "and a sable is a sable, and I will not tear them, trim them or tuck them." Nonetheless, Partos has rimmed a black Alaskan seal cape with flowers made of 40 different ersatz shades of mink. Revillon Furs' designer Fernando Sanchez likes a long-haired mink, worn with the fur inside, that presents a hairless-though embossed-exterior...
Died. Sonja Henie, 57, Norwegian-born queen of the ice revues in the 1930s and '40s; of leukemia; in an ambulance plane between Paris and Oslo. The chubby, bedimpled daughter of a prosperous Oslo fur wholesaler, Sonja captured Norway's figure skating championship by the time she was ten. In 1927 she won the first of her ten consecutive world titles and the following year earned the first of three successive Olympic crowns. As astute in business as she was graceful on skates, she turned professional in 1936, made eleven movies (One in a Million, Thin...
...Pittsburgh housewife, "and I'm sure that we saved at least $100." Apparel sales are strong almost everywhere, but stores in Los Angeles and St. Louis report a declining demand for shoes, partly because the new styles, which many people consider ugly, have not really caught on. The fur industry is having its shabbiest year in decades; women are not buying as many minks and Persian lambs as in recent years. In Boston, Detroit and other cities, retailers express misgivings about the prospects for Christmas sales; some are trimming their holiday orders...