I stumbled across this while looking at some vintage posters:
 
http://artwork.barewalls.com/product/framer.exe?
ArtworkID=23293&thumbs=1&productid=23135
 
I don't think that corset makes her look much like a ferret, but it's
funny that at whatever time period this was (late 1800s?), apparently
ferrets had a reputation for being sleek and streamlined :-)
 
Regina
 
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"Is that my business?  Well, what is my business?  Do I know?  Did I ever
know?  Let s not go into that.  You re not human tonight, Marlowe.  Maybe
I never was or ever will be... Maybe we all get like this in the cold
half-lit world where always the wrong thing happens and never the right."
--Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
[Posted in FML issue 4219]