Word: lambskin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just look at his eyes. Let's take him home," coos a blonde woman. Clad in an Antartex lambskin jacket draped over the L.L. Bean genuine hand-knit imported Icelandic fleece sweater, she is cootchy-cooing into the face of a freshly shorn Shropshire ewe. "But, honey," groans her husband, waving a brand-new shepherd's crook in the direction of the sheep's hindquarters...
...Festival of the New Hampshire Sheep Breeders Association can distinguish a ram from a ewe. Even so, plenty of them are parading around in costumes that instantly identify them as devotees of what is known in woolgathering circles as "sheep chic": sheepskin vests and coats, shepherds' jackets and lambskin caps...
Comedian Red Skelton, who shops there, calls Rodeo a "nice, friendly street ?but too expensive." But many Rodeo customers spend without even asking prices, sometimes because they do not speak English. Recently, a young Japanese rushed into Hermès, pointed in quick succession to a $1,000 lambskin jacket, an $850 suede coat, three silk robes at $700 each, five blouses at $350 apiece and many other goodies. While salespeople totaled all his purchases ($8,000), he dashed out to do more shopping. He returned shortly with new luggage to hold his purchases, then dashed off to catch...
...only spending less on their employees, but are extending the same parsimony to customers and suppliers. One division of a Chicago cosmetics manufacturing firm used to give $40 and $50 pillows covered with the skins of tigers, zebras and foxes; this year it has switched to $15 lambskin rugs and chopped its gift list in half. A number of firms have decided that it is just as bad to receive as to give. Massachusetts based King's Department Stores has mailed letters to 7,000 suppliers asking that no gifts be offered to King employees. Macy's made...