AR-News: (US-ny)Fur trade starts to heat up

[Animalconcerns]

MARTHA STEWART may be a felon, but in what's left of this city's
long-suffering Fur District, she was a hero. By early last week, furrier
Larry Cowit had heard from not one but two customers who "had to have"
that luxe scarf Stewart was wearing after she got the bad news.

Was that chinchilla or rex rabbit framing Martha's sober mug splashed all
over television?
...
But the worst were the wounds inflicted on furriers by the animal-rights
group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which managed for at
least a decade to inhibit some shoppers' tastes.

Supermodels began declaring they'd rather go naked than wear fur, and a
long list of nervous designers dropped their fur licensing agreements.

A decade of activism made many fashion-loving women embarrassed to wear
fur. But more recently, PETA has kind of petered out in New York. This
fall's protest involved only a handful of people flinging bloody carcasses
of skinned foxes at operagoing fur wearers, compared with the 3,000
activists who annually marched through Manhattan in the mid-1990s.

full story:
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/8247219.htm

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