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Road to Riches. For all this, Diane-who also calls herself Lady Diana Harrington-never lost her expensive glitter. She wore a simple dark blue suit, a diamond-studded bracelet and a diamond-studded clip. She exuded French perfume and trailed a "breath of spring" mink stole with the air of a duchess dragging a gunny sack. After scarcely more than one startled look, Assistant District Attorney Anthony J. Liebler was moved to describe her as the "golden girl of café society." He grew more eloquent during the arraignment...
Silverblu mink, the first commercially successful mutation, brought as much as $260 a pelt ten years ago. Now it is down to about $30. Sapphire, new two years ago, sold for as much as $110 when it first hit the market. Now, with production up from 30,000 to some 200,000 pelts in 1952, it averages about...
Hazards of Fashion. Aside from the hazards of such fads (rebelling designers have threatened to plug such furs as sable and chinchilla), the wild scramble for mutations has confused the public. The real value in a mink coat is the quality of the fur itself and the long hours of skilled workmanship required to make a coat. With the new Jasmine mutation, for example, Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman might pay $4,950 for the skins, $1,800 for the labor.* Rent and other overhead expenses would bring the cost of the coat to $7,300, and Bergdorf...
...most mink-hunting women have little idea of how or where the coats come from. At a mink ranch not long ago, a woman visitor asked: "How many times a year do you pelt the animals?" Answered the scornful rancher, deadpan: "Well, we used to pelt twice a year, but it was hard on the minks, so we cut it down to once...
...full-length mink coat takes up to 80 carefully matched and graded pelts. Each skin is sliced diagonally into dozens of strips, less than a quarter of an inch wide. Then the strips are sewn back together to form a two-inch-wide piece of fur equal to the length of the coat. These long swatches of fur, in turn, are sewn together to make the coat...