Fox
Fox: seductive beauty of this fur so soft and so pleasant to the touch
Silver fox for the temptress Greta Garbo from Orchidea Selvaggia from 1929, white on a fatal chiffon chamber dress for the jewel thief Marlene Dietrich from Desiderio from ’36, red for the enchanting Loretta Young in My wife is looking for a husband from ’37, stole of two whole foxes, complete with head, tail and paws, for Dorothy Lamour in Swing High, Swing Low, also from ’37.
The fox in the cinema, dream machine and escape tool
In the cinema, the dream machine and escape tool of the poor 1930s, the scenographic and multifaceted luxury of the fox triumphed. Animal of open spaces, belonging to the Canidae family and present in a vast area that includes Asia, Europe and America, the fox stands out precisely for the variety of its fur. This changes according to the environment and climatic conditions in which it lives. It is therefore at ease both in the heat of the deserts and in the frost of the Nordic lands.
Can be distinguished Canis vulpes argenteusby its dark coat with white and bright tips; the blue or Greenland (Canis vulpes lagopus), the white or polar (Canis alopex lagopus), whose long and fluffy fur is one of the most beautiful existing; the croisé (Canis vulpes cruciatus), so called from the characteristic cross of dark hair which extends over the nape and shoulders; the gray (Urucyon cinereo argenteus), the red (Vulpes vulpes), which is the most widespread and whose best specimens come from Alaska and Camciatca.
History
Informs us that the fox was already known in antiquity, given that preparation techniques are sung in the verses of theIliad and that in classical Athens the headdress called alopex was in all probability made of this hair. In modern times, in the 16th century, there remains memory of 800 extremely rare black fox skins sent as tribute, together with 2,400 sables and 2,000 beavers, to Ivan IV the Terrible.
The news, in truth controversial, on the beginning of breeding takes us, around 1890, to the United States, to the mouth of the San Lorenzo, with the program of the two partners Dalton and Oulton, and to Canada, to Prince Edward Island , where in 1894 a pair of silver foxes bred in captivity. In Europe, the primacy belongs to the enterprising Norwegians who in 1914 imported Canadian silver foxes.
Today farmed foxes, a technique that is not difficult but very precise, come from Canada and largely from Scandinavia. And not only do they have nothing to envy to the wild ones, but with the richness of their colors, deriving from crossings and mutations, they renew the myth of seductive beauty, like a screen bewitcher, of this fur so soft and so pleasant to the touch.
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