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...West, or at least with Britain, vitiated India's arts, and he proves the point all too insistently with a final roomful of tatty 19th century artifacts. The one exception is the Baroda carpet, a lavish if gaudy confection of pearls, rubies, emeralds, diamonds and glass beads sewn onto deerskin and silk. From its shimmering surface, the exotic images of the legendary India seem to glint anew...
Livelier preppy reading lies in Items from Our Catalog, a parody of the L. L. Bean mail order guide. The booklet offers such essential items as a Norweigan bulletproof sweater, a deerskin dieter's mask and the state of Maine--price tag $76,000,000 plus $3.20 postage. Lest you fear such outdoorsy materialism is not in the holiday spirit, note that the catalog also offers a down yarmulke and Thinsulite papal vestments...
...gold-buckled belts and high-steppin' boots of alligator or snakeskin. Some real rootin' tooters tote leather holsters (empty) and cartridge belts. The lady on the Marlboro man's arm is apt to resemble Pocahontas, in a fringed T shirt, multicolored headband, squash-blossom necklace, beaded deerskin bag with dangling mink paws and -the essential accessory-white, fringed moccasins. Some squaws without reservations go so far as to wear war-paint makeup...
...discover and promote is Georgia Michaud, 27. Michaud's designs, many using hand-dyed hospital gauze, are simple and versatile: for example, a pimento handkerchief-style dress that can go to the beach in the morning and the disco at night. Linda Somers, 33, works in chamois and deerskin. Her clothes are expensive: her black deerskin tiered skirt costs $230, her chamois bathing suit $50 and chamois beach cover...
...itch to travel can be summarily scratched, the hunger for acquisition is not so easily appeased. No need to parody the King Ranch; the cynic can start small. A shrewd shopper may buy an entire ten-acre island in Deerskin Lake, Wis., for $115,000. For a bit more, the Bahamas' entire Whale Cay, complete with mansion and matching village can be acquired: 650 acres, 20 minutes by plane from downtown Nassau, seven white-sand beaches, and all priced to sell at $3,500,000. Is the purchaser partial to antiques? He can live in one (when...