Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Boots and belts, hats and handbags, shirts, shawls, coats and evening gowns, even linens, lampshades and wallpaper - all bear the stamp of the serpent. Genuine cobra can be had as a raincoat, simulated copperhead as upholstery fab ric. And women known to keel over at a photograph of a python are now swaddling themselves in the real thing...
...scale, and London Designer Jean Muir has a whole group of satin separates, all slithery with the python pattern. America's Adele Simpson and Bill Blass have embossed the markings onto vel vet and chiffon; Halston has gone so far as to tie-dye scarves to look like cobra coils...
...jackets and dresses, and fake python steamer trunks. At Saks in San Francisco snaky accessories are going at such a striking rate there are never enough around for a window display. In Manhattan, boutiques got into the swing, repapered their walls with snakeskin and offered esoteric items like the cobra patchwork belt pouches and spats and the cobra gladiator vest at Kamali. Betsey, Bunky and Nini, another boutique, has appliquéd snakeskin stars onto belts and has imported Ossie Clark's $200 cobra patchwork waist jacket. Manhattan's Casa Cuero boutique isn't interested in just...
...Fleming Joffe Ltd., biggest U.S. supplier of snakeskins, many women cannot. The company did a $1 million-plus trade in skins last year, with python the biggest seller (naturally black and white, the skins are often bleached out and dyed other shades or hand painted) and boa and cobra close behind. "In fact," says Snakeskin Salesman Rocco Selvaggi, "where the boas are concerned, we're selling whatever we can get our hands on." Business is expected to double by the end of this season...
...aesthetics with Mr. Aubrey would be quite futile, as the producer of The Beverly Hillbillies is apparently a stranger to "the science which deduces from nature and taste the rules and principles of art" (American College Dictionary again). It would be like arguing honor with a mule. Or a cobra...