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Message:: [QUOTE="lizjewel, post: 1756518, member: 13874"]Thanks for posting the fun old ad, Debora! Looks like late 1960's to me. The "fun furs" were not yet all artificial fur, they were usually printed rabbit, sometimes sheared to look like seal [oh horror! Seal  was since long banned for fur use then], and of course leopard, ozelot prints [repeat oh horror! twice]. And, yes, Momma's old outdated mink coat, if not too dry, was often restyled into socalled "stroller length" coats/jackets, meant to wear over pants, mini-skirts. Harkening back, the miniskirt lengths made their earliest appearance in the U.S. in c:a 1967 if memory serves. The mink jackets were probably not intended for the younger miniskirt set, rather for the 30+ who either owned an outmoded mink or had inherited it so wanted it updated. It was cheaper than buying new, especially mink being a pricier fur, and still a step up from rabbit. In the 1970s protests against wearing natural fur grew ever stronger so I'd estimate that the fun furs fashion in natural materials to have ended by c:a 1970-74. There are always a few stragglers in fashion and it's harder to dump a fur coat than a dress just because fashions changed... I still own a sheared rabbit stroller I now would have very little use for in FL. Except a couple of times, like at Renninger's Extravaganza antiques market one very very cold January some years ago, see pictures. I still get comments on it, usually of the kinder sort, when I  point out that it really IS rabbit. But we can throw in yet another oh horror! as my fun warm hat is genuine lynx with a Pucci-silk lining. And before anyone throws virtual paint at me, I don't have it any more![/QUOTE]

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