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...Coats now cost as little as $800, and mink for the working girl is fast becoming a possibility. So great is the surplus that Best & Co. is offering mink coats for little girls beginning at size 3, Mark Cross is selling mink-lined raincoats for men, and Manhattan Furrier Georges Kaplan is even proposing that mink be used for wall-to-wall carpeting at $95 per square foot...
...legs stretching up toward an encompassing smile, as Margie Lindsay, 14, daughter of New York's photogenic mayor, made her modeling debut at a press preview of Maximilian's new collection. Margie modeled coats of calf, lamb and otter ("Mink is for 20-year-olds," said the furrier) to fond applause before being hustled back to school. "She wanted to do it," said her mother. "I told her she'd have to ask her father. He's such a stage buff; of course he said...
...Waddell Gallery, Fifth Avenue's puckish furrier, Jacques Kaplan, is parading an entire "art" show done in fur. Zebra skins are expanded into compositions of svelte veldt op. Big Brother Is Watching You (price $950) is the name of a jaguar hide with two peering glass eyes. One eye winks...
...black and white opticals, seeming to appear and disappear in a skin-tight jump suit with ostrich-feather cuffs under a "cage" of black chiffon, latticed with black velvet. Another black and white effect, frequently mistaken for a painting when it was standing still, was the calfskin coat by Furrier Jacques Kaplan, stenciled by Op Painter Richard Anuszkiewicz in a dotty pattern that focused disturbingly on Mrs. Lee Lombard's pretty kidneys...
...Mound. Later, she became a nightclub chorine in Manhattan and was briefly married to an aging ex-furrier. She tried TV commercials and was the sweet young pause that refreshes for Coca-Cola. Those were the days of live commercials and live dramas, all on the same set. "I looked at the actors," says Carroll, "and thought, 'Well, gee, I don't know what the big deal is. Learning how to do magic must be harder than learning...