a closeup of Shelley from an ad for The American Fur Industry, 1976
Shelley appeared in an ad for The American Fur Industry back in 1976. The ad's tagline was "How Lucky to be Born a Woman," and Shelley modeled a parka of natural sheared beaver sides. Fur was a fashion staple in every best-dressed woman wardrobe for decades until the 1980s and 1990s when anti-fur campaigns began to gain ground. Campaigns and boycotts against fur clothing began getting so much media attention that wearing fur became a no-no. Animal rights organizations objected to the manner by which the garment was farmed; they objected to the killing of animals for the sake of fashion. Some animal activists even went as far as throwing red paint on fur coats worn by women in public.
Shelley in an ad for The American Fur Industry, 1976
