That fur atrocity that Mariette was wearing
The one that still had the poor critters' legs dangling about. That was hideous.
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Girls with one leg work at I-HOP.
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It appears that those types of furs (apparently some sort of fox - head, legs, paws, tail and all) were a common fashion item for women in the early '30s. I've seen a few other movies from right about that time period where those fox-furs figured on the shoulders of many of the women. Take a look at a Walter Huston movie, "American Madness," from 1932 (made the same year as "Trouble in Paradise") and you will see lots of women wearing those fox furs. I would imagine a woman wearing such a fur nowadays, in public, would be exposing herself to grave bodily peril.
Girls with big boobs work at Hooters.
Girls with one leg work at I-HOP.
Yes, and don't forget that Blanche had one in Streetcar Named Desire. It was her "inexpensive summer fur", which I can't imagine anyone wearing during a New Orleans summer.
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I'll have to look for that, next time I see ASND. Also, I noticed in "Riffraff," (1936) one of the characters was this oily sort of guy who kept trying to woo Jean Harlow's character with a new silver fox fur. That fur took a beating.
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They were worn all the way up into the 'sixties, as I remember from my childhood.
shareI remember in the 1960s a woman in my church had one of those fox pieces where the mouth "bit" the tail. I was fascinated. But it was nothing like the piece in Kay Francis wears--with the two fox heads meeting/clipped together. Yikes!
shareThis particular movie (Trouble in Paradise) is the first time I was ever acutely aware of female characters in films wearing those sorts of fox furs -- and I guess a lot of it has to do with the way the two fox heads meet, and are "clipped" together at the teeth. That's a visual that really stands out!
But now I will admit that in the past nine months or so since I first made this post, I have noticed a lot more fox furs being worn on women characters in films - from the twenties all the way to the sixties. This particular film still takes the prize, though, for the most "audacious" wearing of one, by Mariette.
Was watching Waterloo Bridge and Mae Clarke had a white one that "clasped" mouth-to-it's own foot....I find it morbid. On the other hand, keeping the animal pretty much as-is it could be a reminder that this animal gave it's life to warm (well, decorate, anyway) you, but I would be shocked to find somebody who owned one thought of such things...
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Wow, I hadn't even noticed it in this movie. I had seen that kind of stole or wrap before but after reading your post I had to see it for myself. Luckily I still had the movie on DVR.
I'm not into fur, real or otherwise, and I'm not an animal lover of any kind but if I saw that thing in real life I would be disgusted. I can't imagine what goes through the mind of someone who would walk around with some little dead thing, with two heads attached (I didn't see the legs), hanging around their neck. What some people will do in the name of fashion.