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- <text id=89TT0219>
- <title>
- Jan. 23, 1989: Business Notes:Headgear
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Jan. 23, 1989 Barbara Bush:The Silver Fox
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 47
- Business Notes
- HEADGEAR
- Just Wild About Ringtails
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- <p> Attention, raccoons: head for the hills! Not since the
- 1950s, when Fess Parker sported a coonskin cap on the TV show
- Davy Crockett, have the long-tailed hats been so popular.
- Manhattan-based Jack Seifter and Sons, the largest U.S.
- manufacturer of the caps, has seen sales double in the past
- several months. During 1988 the company sold 500 of the
- authentic caps (retail price: $100) and 10,000 versions made
- with fake fur or rabbit pelt and a real ringtail ($22 to $45).
- </p>
- <p> The company attributes the renewed interest partly to last
- fall's debut of several new Davy Crockett episodes on NBC. But
- this time the fad is as big with moms and dads as it is with
- preteen frontiersmen.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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