Word: chinchilla
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Afternoon gowns are being worn under long, straight coats trimmed by bands of mink, skunk, chinchilla and rabbit. Some are executed in duvetyn and gilded velvet with marked effect...
...William B. Kahn (operatic name, Frieda Hempel): " On returning to Manhattan from a concert tour I discovered that thieves had ransacked my apartment. They took my $15,000 chinchilla coat, all my initialed lingerie and all the flat silver. In addition they smoked many of Mr. Kahn's best cigars-but they missed 200 bottles of old wine...