Can I wear fur?

[CosmopolitanCocktail]

I have two fur coats previously owned by my great grandmother.
I have kept them in my wardrobe for the last 20 years.
One is a short mink coat so now bang on trend.
I am a total animal lover but these animals died 60 years ago and the pelts are beautiful. To just discard them seems wasteful so truly torn.
So would I AIBU to wear it?

Sanctimony is also never a good look, yet so many women choose it

I agree and have stopped buying leather, though i think much leather is a by-product of other industries. Fur is grotesque. i feel for you in this decision.

No one eats meat that’s had to be electrocuted through the anus.

Those suggesting that op say it’s fake, why?

So someone doesn’t throw paint/ drinks/ whatever over it?

I’m not sure why you sought reassurance here if this is your attitude to someone making a perfectly civil suggestion. You sound like you want to wear the fur. So just wear it. Oh look - you already are.

Presumably, because they think the OP is worried about other people's reaction to her wearing real fur.

Nah, I'm cool with it.

Everyone back to Ordinary’s for minkmeat and squirrel pie!

I wouldn’t - I don’t like the look of fur or the animal deaths

That's not true. A lot of leather is not a by-product of meat

Agreed.

So if the animals are killed humanely for their coats, would you say it’s ethical to eat their meat as a by-product?

This takes me to the Phoebe episode in friends whereshe inherited a fur coat....
I have a couple of coats via DP's ancestor's and I haven't worn them in public for the same reason as you OP.
But I have worn the coats out a couple of times over the past decade on a frosty morning walking rurally and they did keep me very warm compared to the faux coats I have. I don't have the heart to discard them because then I feel like it's still a waste even though the coats date back to the 1920s xx

To be really honest I don’t think that coat is very nice or does anything for you.

i wouldn’t usually be so honest but since you’re on the fence anyway about it- why bother for one that isn’t very nice?

No, but it does at least mean an animal gets the benefit, not a selfish, amoral human.

Seems like there’s a gap in the market for certified humanely-killed fur, much like free range eggs or fair trade coffee.

Squirell is still available online! Working on dh so we try it🙈

@AddictedToBooks i wish you hadn’t deleted your post. It certainly didn’t come cross as agressive as the post from @CosmopolitanCocktail to which you were responding, which was horrible, properly arsey and aggressive and really put my back up.

Agree with this. OP - if you looking for absolution and everyone to agree you should wear it - you shouldn’t have posted on mumsnet.

You clearly want to wear it - so do what you want. Why do you feel you need the approval of strangers on the internet?

If you’re happy to take the risk of someone chucking something over you and thinking you’re a vile human being - you crack on. I’m not saying you are - but there are animal rights activists out there who would spot real from fake in a heartbeat so it’s a risk I would never take - but then again it would go nowhere near my body in the first place. The thought of wearing the fur of animals who had it removed from their bodies whilst they were still alive and the pain and distress they suffered as a result would utterly sicken me.

But you do you.

I don’t know, maybe if it was a certified byproduct of meat.
Come to think of it I wish you could choose that with leather too.

Have some self respect and throw them out

Yeah - I've read some other posts and have seen that maybe I did read her comment correctly (as arsey and passive aggressive).
I doubt myself too much.

The idea of donating unwanted furs to an animal sanctuary is such a lovely idea and I would have thought OP (as an animal lover) would have appreciated the idea instead of getting snarky.

I'm going to pass the idea onto my mum who has an unwanted and inherited mink coat.

There’s money to be made in scavenging road kill I reckon. I can see people snapping up ethically sourced artisanal badger-fur coats or muntjac leather shoes