Dear Anna, Regarding women wearing minks with huge rhinestone pins on them, you were close but no cigar, at least not in the night clubs that I frequented in San Francisco. However, fur stoles were the fashion there in the 1950s and on into the ???s. In fact the next year (1958) I splurged and bought one of my very own (NOT mink) just to wear to The City (San Francisco). You see, back in those days it was almost mandatory that any women shopping or dining in San Francisco be properly attired. That meant wearing a dress, especially a hat and most importantly, gloves. To be seen otherwise would be an afront to the citizens, the sales clerks and the waiters! Regarding fur stoles, frankly they were almost a necessity in The City in the evening. By then the fog had rolled in over the Golden Gate Bridge and you needed something fashionable to keep out the chill. So you see, even enlisted women in the Navy during those times knew how to dress properly for the occasion. Whether it be proper dress for a shopping or dining trip to San Francisco or whether it be in starched and pressed denim dungarees, shirt and uniform hat at early morning muster. DAMN, they were the good old days!! vee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anna/Del Bristol" <[email protected]> To: "Vee L. Housman" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [FOLKS] Navy, Me and Peggy and San Francisco > What an evening! Were women wearing minks with huge rhinestone pins on > them? I think they are just smashing to see. > > What an elegant, sophisticated evening Peggy shared with you, Vee. I am so > impressed. > Anna >