mink coats
Expensive fur garments
Mink coats are fur garments made from the pelts of minks, small carnivorous mammals prized for their soft, lustrous fur.
Long associated with wealth and glamour, they became status symbols in mid-twentieth-century America: She draped her mink coat over the chair.
Animal rights opposition has made them controversial, and synthetic alternatives now compete in the luxury market.
- sableBlack, in heraldry
- coatsOuter warmth garments
- fur stoleDraped animal-skin accessory
- luxuryExpensive nonessential comfort
- old moneyLong-established family fortune
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