A solitary Hassid, tall, thin, wearing a wide mink hat.

His priestly garb consists of nylon Montana Sport warm-up pants, work boots, a flannel shirt, a dirty gray gabardine blazer and a mink hat.

Bergdorf Goodman has a fake mink hat by Gilly Forge ($225) with a band that can be pulled down over the ears for extra warmth.

At first we didn't understand the man in the mink hat.

In seconds the owner-pimp emerged, wispy beard, a trifle hassidic in his mink hat and understated black velvet suit.

Her small neat figure was dressed gaily in scarlet, and a mink hat sat provocatively on top of her cloudy dark curls.

That's the kind of Jew they depict in The Chosen and Fiddler on the Roof, the ones with the long black coats and the mink hats.

She adjusted her mink hat with one jeweled hand and said, "What more could you ask for, really, on Thanksgiving Day?"

"I went into a department store and bought the highest high heels and tallest white mink hat I could find," she said.

While the mink hats and muffs will start in the $300 to $500 range, coats will start at $8,000.