Should I blow nearly £500 on a faux fur coat?

[Beeyump]

I love it so
What do others think of the coat... I probably won't end up buying it because that would be pretty silly. But I might.

Anyway, I'm not getting drawn into this - I don't want to turn the OP's fun thread into a debate.

I still think you should buy the coat bee!

Farming, humane??

Pahahaha.

You clearly no nothing about the industry.

catinboots and you're a farmer are you
Biased with an axe to grind perhaps?

catinboots - I do see the hypocrisy. I wear leather shoes but yet I won't wear fur - there's little logic there. But then few instinctive reactions are logical.

My instinctive reaction to blue stripey fake fur though is - don't do it.

No not a farmer - but I have enough insight into the industry to know that it is far from humane.

Sheep, chinchilla, cow, fox, chicken, mink. Meh. All interchangeable IMHO. You can't preach about real fur unless you are an astringent vegan.

The dairy industry is the cruelest and I bet you all have milk in your tea.

Oh - and I say all of this as a meat-eating, leather-wearing, fur-wearing, fox-hunting animal lover.

I'm like Hassled - I wear leather, sheepskin, eat meat, drink milk but don't like the idea of wearing fur. I think it is because when I was growing up there were lots of ads about the fur industry being cruel and people with fur coats having paint thrown on them. There is no logic to it though.

Exactly. That's the same logic as that of the people who take their kids to 'lambing days' at city zoos. Then sit done the same evening to a nice lamb roast.

Non-logic.

*down

Oh my eyes!! Honestly it's awful but if you have £500 and like it then buy it !

FFS, do I now have to defend dairy farming on a style and beauty thread? To a fox hunting, meat eating, fur wearing fashionista?

What's wrong with seeing lambs born and then eating them for tea? They are being farmed to produce meat, so surely it's a good way of explaining that?

Bizarre, on a thread about a coat.

As I said, not being drawn. The practices used in the farming of fur in places like China cannot be compared to dairy farming.

Anyway, am hiding this thread after the Chanel bag furore. You cannot reason with the unreasonable.

You don't have to defend your choices at all. Same as I don't have to defend mine.

However I will point out hypocrisy when I see it.

Wear fur, don't wear fur. Eat meat, don't eat meat. I couldn't give a shit - unless you are judging my choices.

Oh ^really Amber. How much time have you spent on an actual^ Dairy Farm (not the ones featured on CBeebies)

Fucking lol

And you cannot reason with the uneducated.

And to LadyFlip

How many of those parents at the 'petting zoo' explain that little lamby will be served up for supper?

I can bet you 99% don't. We have a weird, guarded culture about this sort of thing real life

Well, catinboots, that's up to the parents to explain. I will join you in not being responsible for other people's ethical decisions.

But i do live on a dairy farm, and I don't expect you do, as rabbit fur isn't terribly practical for the mud and shit involved in dairy farming. So I have probably spent more time on one than most people, possibly even you. In what way is it worse than, as Amber pointed out, the methods used to farm fur in China? Just on a quick google, fur animals are skinned alive and not necessarily slaughtered prior to skinning. Your rather catty comments to Amber don't really elaborate on which practices in the dairy industry you find so abhorrent.

I think it is quite cool. Whether you should buy it depends on how much money you have to throw away, how much wear it will get be honest with yourself and how much YOU really really REALLY love it!

£500 is a lot of money.

It looks quite ridiculous, sorry, regardless of the price.

oh I didnt realise this thread had got so interesting

awful coat though, you could spend 500 quid on pretty much anything but that and be better off

Op, if you love it this much and can afford £500 then I think you should.

Then if you pop across to the I-don't-get-bags thread then we can find you the perfect handbag to go with it

Arf at LadyFlip.

So living with a dairy farmer makes you the queen of all things agricultural?

No I don't wear my Furs whilst attending to the animals/ponies. Mud and fur don't really mix.

And double fucking HaHa at the 'Dairy Wives' defending their menz and their job.

Oh because taking lambs from their mothers, pumping cows full of artificial hormones, milking them twice a day in a slurry-ridden pit is acceptable is it?

I'll sit here with my milky tea and mink-fur lined coat, ta. Happy in the knowledge I'm a fully accepting hypocrite :)

I want this thread to stay at Cookie Monster level.

bee, are you buying the coat as a 'wearing to special occasions' item of clothing, or 'popping out to buy milk and loo rolls' everyday use?