Posts Tagged ‘fur coat’

1911: The Corona Cat Farm of Queens That Wasn’t

Posted: 8th February 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Featured Felines
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“If, as the Arabs suppose, the spirits of gentlewomen are re-embodied in cats, there is a delicate appropriateness in this dedication of cat fur to the adornment of living gentlewomen.” –The New York Times, October 12, 1890 “What Smart Women Are Wearing” In the 1800s and early 1900s, furs were all the rage in Paris […]