At Chaiken & Capone's show (400 spectators), 32 women wore western denim jackets, one with a mink collar, top left.

For fun, there are fingertip-length coats in shocking pink or yellow with dyed-to-match mink collars, worn over rose-patterned tunics.

Look at this suit - it's a real Paris model with a mink collar.

His wife of eight months, glamorous in a coat with a real mink collar, was carrying a bread pudding; Dave had a bowl of butter-beans.

"If Edith is so into animal rights," she demanded, "why was she wearing a sweater with a mink collar?"

Some have mink collars and suede shells that slip on over them.

Her "good wool" coat was a brilliant royal blue with a mink collar.

Ms. Steffe cut her version of the season's military jacket in black nylon with a brown mink collar.

(For the record, she wore a light gray wool dress under a darker gray coat with a white mink collar.)

Pillbox hats, pumps and coats with mink collars adorned the women, while the men wore sharkskin suits, skinny ties and white shirts.