Word: minked
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...about what they regard as unkind criticism. And I'm not thought much of in the North either." But he had no apologies for his popularity abroad. "Russians and Europeans get a less erroneous image of America from my books than they do from American films about a mink-penthouse-Cadillac society...
...fetchingly demonstrated a pale, shaggy snow leopard from the icy reaches of Nepal. And for almost any girl, whether she can skate or not, Diane's pretty partners, modeling for the kick-off campaign of New York's United Hospital Fund, showed that Cambodian tiger, white mink and red nutria also...
...obvious result is a feeling among the smart set that mink has become ordinary. Says one fashion leader: "It's gotten to be nothing more than a seedy status symbol." Sniffs another: "Everybody in kingdom come has one. I never saw so many old sides and ears in my life. Of course, it is becoming to just everybody -even those little old poodles with the jeweled mink collars...
Some of the chic clique are turning to other furs, running the range from badger to beaver, squirrel to seal, and including such far-out furs as pony, jaguar and zebra; best-dressed Mrs. William Paley passed up racks of floor-length mink coats last week to buy a simple little number in grey squirrel. Currently, the move is to sable. But if it is to be mink, then it must be cut rakishly enough or designed with sufficient casualness to insure its owner protection against being lumped with the common crowd at her heels. Get the "understated mink." cries...
...whatever color or cut it takes, and despite the recent wild trend to leopard, mink is still the most popular of furs: last year's retail sales of mink amounted to $306 million, and 85% of all U.S. fur sales. Says Neiman-Marcus Vice President George Liebes, for the defense: "No fur is so flattering. None can be handled so well, none is to be had in so many colors, none can be so dressed up or dressed down, none can be used so many ways in so many fashions. Mink is in. to stay." In other words...