Tag: pink fox

• Furs on Film – What a Way to Go! (1964)

  5 minutes

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  2011/09/25

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  Fur on Film

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  1960s, 20 percent club, dyed fox, fox, fur cape, fur hat, fur muff, fur trim, furs in film, mink, pink fox, raccoon, Shirley Maclaine in fur, white mink

  Back this week to fill in a bit more of that rather great-fur anemic decade, the 1960s. At least, the ’60s still have the charm of not being the 90s. This one is able to row against the prevailing fashion tide primarily thanks to the liberal use of fantasy sequences and parody of Hollywood “excess.”…

  

• Furs on Film – Singing in the Rain (1952)

  4 minutes

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  2010/08/08

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  Fur on Film

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  1950s, black fox, chinchilla, ermine, fur cape, fur collar, fur cuffs, fur trim, furs in film, gloves, pink fox, satin, white fox

  I want to say this isn’t a “fallback” update, but it is. I think I’ll have to readjust my standards if I’m going to have a steadier stream of updates. Or the next decade’s Thirtiesesque renaissance of enormous fur fashions needs to get here sooner. (You heard it here; first, I hope.) Grab your umbrellas,…

  

• Fur on Film – Darktown Strutters (1975)

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  2010/04/11

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  Fur on Film

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  1970s, fur coat, fur parka, fur stole, furs in film, pink fox, white fox

  It’s late at night, and Turner Classic Movies’ core demo has long since retired for the evening. This is where strange things happen, as TCM goes all film history buff on you. Sometimes it’s unintentionally amusing old “educational” films, foreign stuff, and sometimes, it’s obscure Blaxploitation from the heart of the 1970s. Yes, I’m exploiting…