For example, a fur coat, original artwork, or comic book collection are not investments.
His parents were so impressed that he was spared a spanking for ruining the fur coat.
But Lewis' 2006 one-off with the Watson Twins, Rabbit Fur Coat, apparently sated her folk-rock yearnings.
Their take on the fur coat is a patchwork of the most luxurious astrakhan: mink, velvet and goat fur.
As a child I remember my mother throwing a fur coat over her nightie to drive me to school.
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Her 2006 album Rabbit Fur Coat (featured in a live concert on NPR.org by Lewis) was a surprise hit.
Kids play on the streets, a woman in a fur coat walks her dog, a man repairs a car, punks and travellers gather on a street corner.
Later, I posed with Otis Armstrong briefly a star running back for the Denver Broncos when he and his enormous fur coat made a promotional appearance at our store in Pueblo, Colo.
He borrowed a 16 mm camera, cut up his mother's old fur coat to make a bear model, and made a film about himself and his dog being menaced by a bear.
His first major misstep was in January, when he learned that the wife of his ex-chief prosecutor, Kim Tae Jung, had accepted a fur coat and other clothes from an expensive boutique.
The 4-by-6-foot color photograph of a wintry outdoor scene portrays a woman in a fur coat staring up at an apartment building where a water leak has cascaded down the cement facade and hardened into a frozen waterfall.
Her coat was trimmed with dark fur, which struck me as maybe the most arch and elegant thing I had ever seen.
Whatever you're wearing, the designer seemed to be saying, even if it's not a coat or a jacket, there's a spot for some luxurious fur.
The forensics expert said the outer surface of April's coat was waterproof and would not shed fibres but the lining and fake fur of the hood could.
Michael Kors this month showed a coat worn with shorts, while Vera Wang showed dark-colored sleeveless fur coats and wool shrugs with light chiffon dresses in colorful spring-like prints.
In a romantic violet, Ralph Rucci sent out a coat in sable, while Alexander Wang stayed mostly with grays for big coats paired with fur hand warmers to the elbow.
The genesis of the company came from Hilgart's own desire for a stylish winter coat that wasn't "accidentally vegan" because it used substitutes for wool, fur or leather to drive down costs.
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