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Not all fur coats are $100,000 sables. Those incredibly expensive furs sometimes shown in magazines and fashion shows are as beautiful–and as rare–as a newly uncovered painting by an ol… ...
Only the wealthiest members of society in Viking age Denmark could afford imported beaver furs, which were flaunted as a status symbol.
A new wetsuit material from MIT traps pockets of air in a fur-like pelt, keeping the wearer warm in the water. It works just like a beaver’s fur coat, which was the rubbery material’s ...
Schulze lists sheered beaver (also lightweight fur), Persian lamb and Russian broadtail fur fashions. Persian lamb coats ($5,000 and up) are made from lambs no more than 10 days old, while ...
All Mom’s friends wore fur coats: mink, lamb, lynx, rabbit, fox, beaver, or muskrat—whatever they could afford. Lucky preppies inherited raccoon coats from their parents. Short, fur car coats grew ...
Pete Jonas worked bare-handed in the water on a day when ice skimmed the puddles and most people shivered in winter coats. A beaver trapper since age 12, Jonas knows how to keep scent from washing ...
A full-length women’s beaver fur coat valued at $800 was reported stolen Saturday afternoon from the Lake Forest Hospital Thrift Shop, located at 653 Bank Lane. Police said there are no suspects ...