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1、Raccoon coat,Animal fur, with its warm insulation, had long been a popular winter coat material, and raccoon was one of the least expensive types of fur. Raccoon coats were a fad in the United States during the 1920s, particularly with (male) college students in the mid- and later years of the decad

2、e. They are full-length fur coats.,Distinctive and flamboyant, the gray and black raccoon fur coat fit perfectly with the style of the Roaring Twenties (a period of time following World War I 19141918 when people were experiencing newfound freedoms and a sense of rebellion), when people dressed in f

3、lashy and extravagant fashions.,For a short time during the mid-1920s, wearing long, bulky coats of raccoon fur was a fad among young American men and some young women, especially those attending colleges and universities. Initial stage Developing stage Heyday Decline & Revival,Development history,I

4、nitial stage,Raccoon coats became especially popular in the 1920s when driving became one of the most popular activities for those wealthy enough to own Henry Fords Model T automobile. The privileged few who could afford a car also wore raccoon coats, and subsequently made raccoon coats a symbol of

5、wealth.,Developing stage,Raccoon coats are most closely associated with male college students of the 1920s, they made the garb a fashion craze on campuses from coast to coast. Eventually the coats would be closely identified with students, especially students at the so-called Ivy League colleges and

6、 universities, which were Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale. Popularized by such celebrities as radio star Rudy Vallee (19011986), football hero Red Grange (19031991), and the famous college football players from Notre Dame nicknamed the Fo

7、ur Horsemen, young people began wearing raccoon coats to football games and college parties.,Heyday,The craze reached its peak in 1928, when George Olsen (18931971) and his band (George Olsen and His Music) recorded the lyrics to a peppy dance tune called Doin the Raccoon, that described how rough g

8、uys, tough guys, men of dignity / Join the raccoon coat fraternity. Far more refined than their frontier archetypes, the raccoon coats popular in the 1920s were usually full-length dusters reaching to the ground, with exaggerated collars and swank buttons. They became one of the chief emblems of col

9、legiate style for sheiks who wanted to impress their shebas.,Women, enjoying a new fashion freedom in the 1920s, also liked to wear the warm, dashing coats, and for young African Americans raccoon coats were the height of style. James Van Der Zee (18871983), a well-known African American artist, cau

10、ght much of the spirit of the decade in a painting of a fashionable young black man and woman standing by their car, titled Couple in Raccoon Coats.,Decline & Revival,Raccoon coats are considered, along with flappers, the Charleston dance, and the Model T Ford, to be a symbol of the short-lived fads

11、 of the 1920s. The coats were heavy and bulky, and by the end of the decade they had been replaced by lighter weight camels hair coats. The raccoon coat did have a brief revival during the late 1950s, when fashionable women once again sought vintage, or antique, 1920s coats and adults began seeking them in tandem with their childrens demand for Davy Crockett coonskin