Fur Flies Over Her Wrap

Is it too dangerous to wear a fur coat? Listen’s mailbag contained a letter from an anonymous reader who thinks it might be. Her friend, she writes, was denied admission to a local theater, not identified by name, because she was wearing a fur coat. (A similar incident, involving a woman who was told she and her fox coat weren’t welcome in a West Hollywood nightclub, was reported recently in the Los Angeles Times.) The writer was so distressed, she attempted to sell her own fur wrap, which she says she inherited from her mother. But there were no takers. “What’s a girl to do?” she asks. “I think the animal rights people are onto something, in terms of testing new products on animals. . . . And I really wouldn’t buy a new fur coat, but I sure would like to wear the one I have in peace.”

Farm Report

Imagine jeans that get darker with each washing. It’s not a new trend, yet. Kern County cotton breeder and weaver Sally Fox has managed to grow green, red and pink cotton, right in the boll. (It’s natural, folks.) Fox said the colors are much deeper than it is possible to obtain with a dye. And the cotton has a texture that is ideal for weaving into heavy fabrics for clothes such as jeans. The only kink is that all of her crop was bought by a Japanese fashion company and her attempts to grow more have been thwarted by a California law prohibiting any variety of cotton breeding except the traditional white Acala cotton.

Overheard at Versace

“A tour de force,” said first-time couture viewer Julie Andrews, who attended the recent show in Paris.