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Fur Clips
Ann Blyth--Joan Crawford--Ann Miller--Hedy Lamarr (the most beautiful of them all and the inventor of cell phone technology) ... they all wore fur clips.
But here's the thing of it. I'm in the jewelry business for 0ver 50 years and till this week I never even heard of fur clips. Is this something women wear with their furs ... or is it something you put on your dog in order to enhance its appearance? As it turns out ... both ...though it is in reference to the first that this tidbits addresses itself.
I have books ... I have magazines ... I am laden and loaded and stuffed and crammed to the gills with tomes of all shapes and sizes and colors to the point of a madman's dream of a literary descent into hell surfing through the fiery inferno on the spine of a hard-cover book published by Simon and Schuster . And yet ... I have nothing on fur clips.
What little info that follows is all I could glean. If any of you have more ... by all means pass it on. They were popular from the 20's thru the 50's. Trifari and Polcini and Carnegie were among many that jumped on what appears to have been a bandwagon of ultimate obscurity in order to make this item. And last ... I do believe I read somewhere that they were first invented in Czechoslovakia.
And now ... with a touch of incredible chutzpah ... I present to you dear reader ... the shortest Tidbits ever written. I do this simply because I have nothing more to say on this subject. Nothing of worth in print seems available. Does no one care?
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And there ya have it. That's it for this week folks. Catch you all next week. Benjamin Mark
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