Where do most furs get made into coats, hats, collars, mukluks and various linings?
Inside the opera house, some patrons wore furs, while for others low-cut haute couture sufficed.
The coureurs des bois soon diversified from the beaver trade into other furs, seeking bears, foxes, wolves and raccoons.
The additional tax revenue raised from the sale of new airplanes, yachts, jewelry and furs was nearly negligible.
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And out of her peeling, greenish doorways could come women in furs, or pink hair-curlers, or orange-striped socks.
Continuing a trend seen in New York, beaver, mink and other furs were everywhere, often decorating hems and sleeves.
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In fact, the night of the inaugural balls became known this year as The Night of the Long Furs.
This fall, for instance, the Boulder Theater, near the University of Colorado, will host the Psychedelic Furs, Aimee Mann, and Dinosaur Jr.
Maintaining some of its glamour, the car-free main shopping street of Via Matteotti is lined with upscale boutiques selling furs, designer handbags and evening gowns.
They were traders, and were prepared to swap weapons for furs.
There were some clever costumes (furs, black-and-white polka-dot flamenco dresses, natty gangster suits for the smugglers) and ideas (the smuggled "goods" were people).
The Fur Auction got its start in 1670 as the Hudson's Bay Company, which bought furs from trappers and shipped them to London.
Played with lovely elegance and depth by Ruthie Ann Miles, Imelda oozes glamour in a variety of tropical prints, sequined dresses and luxurious furs.
Furniture is adorned in cushy animal furs, which are needed given the chilly 32 degrees to 40 degrees Fahrenheit range inside the icy digs.
Many illustrators and artists, for example, preferred using the traditional Christmas colors of red and green, or even brown furs, when drawing jolly, old St.
In 1555 Czar Ivan the Terrible granted a group of English merchants a monopoly on the trade of furs, timber and cloth, thus establishing the Muscovy Company.
"A woman should have options and I think a lot of people do buy synthetic furs, " Lubov said, adding that he thinks the product still needs further development.
John Jacob Astor, flogging his furs, might not have approved.
Throughout the series, Ms. Wright is neither overly made up nor dressed up in the luscious furs and designer kit that normally grace the type of character she represents.
Basso was celebrating his 30th anniversary in the business and his beloved clients came in droves in their cocktail dresses and luscious furs to show their support for the designer.
Do you remember the "excise tax" on IRA distributions? (Such a wonderfully Orwellian name--as if Congress were taxing furs or gas guzzlers.) It was in effect between 1987 and 1996.
The race will finish in a parking lot outside Petco Park and a post-race concert featuring the Psychedelic Furs will be held in the ballpark, with the stage set up near the first-base line.
Once the furs arrive at the house they're spun in a vat to fluff the coat, then ticketed, sorted by species, rated by color and quality and divided into lots, some as large as 250 pelts.
Washington had warmed up, the swift storm of the previous day had passed, the sky was overcast but the air wasn't painful in a wind-chill way, and the capital was full of men in cowboy hats and women in long furs.
She was the lady in the yellow dress, simple, bespectacled, plain not just in her housewifery but also in her demeanour, a contrast in every way to the stylish Imelda, who was still stuffing the boudoirs of the presidential palace with frocks and furs and shoes, shoes, shoes.
Roughly 85% of all furs start out as farmed animals on unmarked plots of land, often to avoid the attention of animal rights activists. (Farming started as a U.S. practice in the 19th century.) Ranchers, most of them in northern Europe and North America, breed mink, foxes and chinchillas for consistency of color and texture.
Which leads to the trickle-up theory: couture, being about lasting luxury instead of fashion fads, doesn't set trends but rather picks them up by osmosis, and last March the ready-to-wear shows were full to the brim with furs, from Ann Demeulemeester's cave-woman wraps to Amanda Wakeley's ermine jumper to Fendi's furs-that-didn't-look-like-furs (they looked like hobo patchwork coats, chunky grandma jumpers, and velvet skirts).
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