Feel Of Luxury - from our story 'When Wearing Fur Was De Rigueur in London (1900 – 1950)'

26th April 1950: A woman worker at the Alaska Fur works in Bermondsey, London, where skins are prepared, feels the texture of a 'phantom' beaver fur coat worn by a mannequin during a lunch time fashion parade. The coat costs about ?32. (Photo by Fred Morley/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

26th April 1950: A woman worker at the Alaska Fur works in Bermondsey, London, where skins are prepared, feels the texture of a 'phantom' beaver fur coat worn by a mannequin during a lunch time fashion parade. The coat costs about ?32. (Photo by Fred Morley/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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