Shaggy dog story
From the “Sunday Times,” London
Exotic dogs dress beauty queen! What a start to a story. This could lead to anything. Protests from Mary Whitehouse and the R S.P.C.A., a contract to appear live at Raymond’s Revue-bar, a “Sunday Telegraph” British Crafts Award. Wait a minute. What is this story? Six months ago Margaret Spink of Harrogate started spinning the Angora-like fur of her two Samoyed dogs Bella and Brumas into thread and then crocheting it into bikinis. Production is
limited as supplies are based on daily combing.
Total output so far is only about two dozen and Spink says purchasers will just have to wait. “I cannot shear my dogs like sheep.”
The eager buyers, at £12.50 ($24) a time, are said to be ladies who. anxious to catch the judges’ eyes at beauty competitions, appreciate the way the bikinis cling to every curve, wash well and look different.
Hazel Lyons of Leeds, aged 24, a photographic model, for example, said: “Mine is beautifully soft, I only have one fear. What’s going to follow me on the beach when I go walkies.” What a silly story.
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Press, 29 July 1978, Page 14
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190Shaggy dog story Press, 29 July 1978, Page 14
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