to want a real fur coat

[choufleur]

I don't me made from baby seals or anything endangered but a rabbit one maybe.

I eat rabbit, so can't see the problem with wearing a coat made from a by product.

The trouble with rabbit-fur coats or other "non-cruel" is that they make it look as though you condone all fur; wearing any fur brings it more into the mainstream and makes the mink/fox etc seem that tiny bit more acceptable.

It's not only cruel, it looks totally naff. If you're not living in the Arctic then there's no reason to wear it.

andrea69 if people didn't buy them, manufactureres wouldn't make them, so your argument doesn't add up.

I once worked in a London Travel Agency & had a very wealthy, well-dressed client. He said to my boss about about Travel being a mug's game - only 9% or 10% profit; he said smugly that his business made nearly 100%. He was a furrier.

I have one because it's baltic up here. I wore it to a new year's party where a militant veggie friend of mine asked me if it was real.

I asked her if it looked real, and she said no. Nice little tub of beandip there. It was minus 9 and I was the only one toasty warm.

Mind you, it's vintage so I didn't actually cull the minks but then I do wear leather/suede etc so can't really be too precious about it.

If I was an Inuit, I would wear fur because the synthetic stuff is not warm enough.

I would also point out that synthetic fur comes from oil which is made in part from decomposed animals. So the squeamish animal lovers should avoid products made from oil as well!

I don't think that fur is any more cruel than leather but, a bit like fox hunting, it allows people to take the moral high ground on something that they don't do. Saying that, I do think that it actually looks and feels horrid

I would wear rabbit fur, I think, if I ahd a coat but woudl not go out to buy one.

I also have a sheepskin coat. Technically that qualifies as a Fur Coat, doesn`t it?!

If you get a sheepskin, you get the warmth and softness as you would with any other fur.

seening the reactions above, this is the wrong country to wear fur I reckon.

Also, rabbit fur goes clumpy and horrid in the rain.

i would be more than happy to take it off your hands if you want i adore real fur coats

OOO nasty

I can't see why people take an ethical stand on fur coats, and yet are prepared to eat meat. Many animals for meat are farmed in appalling conditions too, in order to provide cheap enough meat for mass consumption.

Why is this OK, and yet fur-wearing is not? Meat eating is a choice, not a necessity - much like fur wearing.

This is an old thread, so not sure why it's been revived, but kris39 is disgusting. Wish she/he was the only one, but sadly not.

YANBU

I personally have no issue with it to me it is no different to leather. My MIL has vintage fur and feels she shouldn't wear it. Yes she lives somewhere very very cold.

yikes didn't realise this thread was also vintage :O

Half term?

I have nothing morally against fur if it's done in a humane manner.
After all, I eat meat and wear leather.
But aesthetically, no no no.
I have never seen a fur coat that looks good.
They're what your granny used to wear, they're ageing and they make you look like you have more money than sense.
Personally they I think they make you look cheap but that's just my opinion.
There's loads of other fabrics that can keep you warm in the winter

I have a vintage fur coat. When I moved to uni aged 17 I decided it was a must have, so trawled the vintage clothes shops and got myself one for £50. It's arctic fox, and is so lovely and warm. Ive only worn it occasionally though because I worry about reactions to it, but I love the fact that I own it.

get a coat made of native american scalps? they all gotta die sometime anyway, right

I deal with vintage clothes and get loads of fur coats. The vintage ones I don't mind but I would never ever sell a new fur coat. I have a vintage minx one that I wear in the winter and get odd looks. Wore it in Austria this winter and ladies came up admiring it. I think in this country we are very anti fur.

no.

At least this time I realised on page 3 that this was a vintage thread.

But am an avid meat eater, leather wearer, sheepskin wearer. Not really a viable option to wear fur but I would prefer if we could have a more regulated fur market so that people who did choose to buy fur would at least be able to buy 'ethical' fur IYSWIM.

I don't know if I am cold and hard hearted but those images of 'here's the rest of your fur coat' don't shock me. Of course it would look like that. My lamb meat didn't look grand whilst being slaughtered either.

YABU. Agree with pastaplease on everything.Some people are just heartless.

Perhaps people on here can tell me if my thinking is logical or skewed? It goes like this:

There is a market for real fur in the UK. (that is the reality, not some version of a future Eutopia). That market is currently served by fur farmed in countries such as China and India, where live skinning of animals is a common practice. Surely we should be promoting fur farming in this country, under much better conditions, and driving the poor practices out of business?

I have a rabbit fur coat. Its warm like nothing else in a winter like Aberdeen, which is basically sub Arctic, has just experienced. But likewise, there is a need for fur in continental Europe. Fur coats, hats and fur lined boots are traditional over there, because they work, look stylish and last long. And I've also got strange, European genetic roots, and a tendency to be practical rather than esoteric.

Why is it considered so wrong to farm animals for meat but not their fur? Is it the cuteness factor? Is it because we all live in little modern housing estates and drive little tin boxes, and are so divorced from our environment that we think animal welfare is jumping on the next bandwagon?

Butterbur It is NOT ok to eat cheap meat.You said it .....People have a choice to buy free range and sadly choose not too...if I could not afford to buy free range I would go without.Simple

"Animals killed for meat are electrocuted and have their throats slit. Killing things is not pleasant but I do eat meat and I skin the rabbits DH shoots on local farms." Theres you're answer then, use the fur from the rabbits your DH shoots - seriously, i would have no problem whatsover with this - i would if you bought a coat which meant that the rabbits were being bred solely for this purpose.

Its very 1980s wearing rabbit fur though, not a great look :)

I suppose you wear no knickers too.