#miniver

miniver:

Plain white fur used for lining or trimming clothes - google The fluffiest part (chest) of a small mammal's fur A white fur worn originally by medieval nobles and used chiefly for robes of state. Anglo-French menever, from menu small + ver, vair. Old French menu vair (“squirrel, squirrel fur”), from menu (“small”) + vair (“a type of fur”) - wiki

Giovanna Cenami (Arnolfini Portrait, 1434) wears a dress trimmed with miniver (pure) from 2.000 red squirrels (est)

Miniver, in the original sense, differs from ermine (stoat) fur in that it does not include the distinctive black tails of the stoat but is formed of distinctive grey edged panels cut from the complete fur and framing the white belly. From a red squirrel, which has a greyish-white winter coat with a white underside, miniver gros, or vair, is the whole fur, including the grey, and miniver pure retains only the white part.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniver

My bands of silk and miniver Momently grew heavier; The black gauze was beggarly thin; The ermine muffled mouth and chin; I could not suck the moonlight in.

Harlequin in lozenges Of love and hate, I walked in these Striped and ragged rigmaroles; Along the pavement my footsoles Trod warily on living coals.

Shouldering the thoughts I loathed, In their corrupt disguises clothed, Morality I could not tear From my ribs, to leave them bare Ivory in silver air.

There I walked, and there I raged; The spiritual savage caged Within my skeleton, raged afresh To feel, behind a carnal mesh, The clean bones crying in the flesh.

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Full Moon

Elinor Wylie  1885-1928

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http://styleveryday.com/2017/07/20/hollywood-flashback-in-1943-mrs-miniver-mined-dunkirk-for-six-oscars/

Hollywood Flashback: In 1943, 'Mrs. Miniver' Mined Dunkirk for Six Oscars

11:00 AM PDT 7/20/2017 by Bill Higgins

Director William Wyler’s film, which took home the Academy Award for best picture, focused on a British family trying to survive the war. Christopher Nolan’s take on the World War II battle hits theaters July 21.

Warner Bros. can only hope that Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, which opens July 21, does as well as the first Hollywood movie to touch on that eight-day World War II battle/evacuation: Mrs. Miniver won six Oscars, including best picture.

While 1942’s $1.34 million ($20 million today) MGM production focused on an upper-middle-class British family trying to survive the war, one key plot element is the father sailing with the 800 boats that in 1940 rescued about 340,000 British and French troops surrounded by the German army in the French port of Dunkirk.

The film is unabashedly pro-British. “I was concerned about Americans being isolationists,” said director William Wyler, who died in 1981. He said his attitude on making movies during the war was: “Let’s make propaganda pictures but make them good.” (He also made them profitable: Miniver earned seven times its production cost just domestically.)

No less an authority on propaganda than the Nazis’ Joseph Goebbels was envious: He wrote that Miniver‘s “refined powerful propagandistic tendency has up to now only been dreamed of.”

When the Oscars were held in 1943 at the Cocoanut Grove, THR said a high point came with a message from President Franklin D. Roosevelt. “We have succeeded in turning the tremendous power of the motion pictures into an effective war instrument,” he wrote, “without the slightest resort to the totalitarian methods of our enemies.”

This story first appeared in the July 19 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.

it's just way different than the american system but i've heard the american system makes no sense to other countries so