Gifted a vintage YSL mink fur coat

[Furnerves]

I’ve been gifted a late 60s/ early 70s YSL mink fur coat, it’s mid thigh length and absolutely gorgeous.

Of course I’ll never wear it, does anyone know where I could sell it to get the best price.

Please no lectures on fur, I just don’t want to give this coat away and I’d rather keep it that sell on eBay for a few hundred pounds.

Thanks in advance.

I have a vintage fur. It’s amazing and I feel amazing in it. I’ve never been hassled because of it.
OP, if you’re going to have it remodelled have it made smaller to fit you and the excess made into trim on another jacket/ pair of gloves or something. Don’t waste it.

I have a moleskin coat given to me by my mother. I remember her wearing it out to dinner dances and burying my wee face in it as she hugged me goodnight

As we used to say in the days before emojis - LMAO!

I love the feel and look of real fur. Faux just doesnt compare.

I wear leather shoes, eat meat, have soft wood furniture, wear diamonds, eat palm oil and sit on leather furniture. So it would be hypocritcal of me to be ethical over fur.

I feel it is more socially exceptible now days. You see fur everywhere now. Due to it being so cheap now days and fashion for fur lined parkas and down coats etc.

That coat is beautiful. I would deffiantly see about getting it altered.

It's not socially acceptable to wear vintage fur! It's mad to rationalize it like this.

What you do by wearing it is swan around looking amazing in it, people are impressed and think that fur is ok, they don't know it's vintage. It just approves a disgraceful, cruel old fashioned industry.

I actually don't even think it's ok to sell it. Burn it in the garden and show us what real
style is.

Take it to a Furrier. There aren't that many of them these days. And in my experience they are slightly odd people! But they know all about remaking garments, and the piece's construction.

Fur coats from that era were generally designed to be very loose on purpose.

Check the fit on your shoulders. If it fits there, then it fits!

I'll buy it from you!

Quite surprised by some of the responses on here. Especially people justifying wearing fur because they also wear leather/eat meat etc. You could just...not do any of those things. They all cause unnecessary and completely avoidable suffering to sentient animals.

Also dispute the argument that alternatives to fur/animal products are bad for the environment. Plenty of ethical and environmentally friendly products out there. It’s not like the only options we have are animal based materials and plastics. Furthermore if you are concerned about the environment you would want to know that avoiding meat and dairy is probably the biggest thing you as an individual can do to reduce your carbon footprint.

Uh... OP, I work in designer fashion, so I think I'm qualified.

DO NOT PUT THAT COAT ON EBAY!!!

Take it to a specialist designer resale shop immediately. The best ones are around Knightsbridge.

That coat would have been a couple thousand originally - any designer collector would buy it for 1k at least.

www.farfetch.com/uk/shopping/women/vintage-coats-1/items.aspx?view=180&designer=85146

And oh my god OP, whatever you do do not have it remade into something else!! I could weep!

Wear it, as above the rules are different for vintage.

I have one that sounds very similar, but is full length. It always come out of storage for Xmas & new year parties & any severe cold weather/snow. I've never had anything but compliments & I don't own anything that can keep the cold & wet out as well as my coat can. Definitely wear it & enjoy

OP, just wear it. DP bought me one at an auction. I woudn't have bought a new one, but the animal is already long dead. It is gorgeous. And I do wear it for grocery shopping. The only time anyone has ever explicitly commented was a random stranger, who said to the woman she was with: "that woman is wearing a real mink". She could evidently tell the difference. I have no idea whether she meant it in a good or bad way.

FWIW, OP, DP paid about £50 for mine at auction, so I'm not sure you'd get £500...

I can say in all honesty that my coat is real moleskin. The fur brushes both ways and yes it’s made from a lot of poor wee moles. Years ago molecatchers would sell the pelts but I don’t think it happens any more. But mole catchers still exist

paganmolloy - #Ibelieveyou

Looks like this one

www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/alexanders-auctioneers/catalogue-id-srale10015/lot-c79e16f4-20de-46c0-9b1e-a4380141e717

It's lovely, pagan, if you ever want to sell - PM me, hun x

Give it to me. I'll wear it.

Thanks but I couldn’t part with it. However for more chortles you should google mole catcher and read about this ancient way of life. We call them mowdies in Scotland.

I have a vintage mink Bolero I paid £350 for a few years ago and it’s not a known designer, please don’t listen to people saying you won’t get £500 for this- there absolutely is a market for this kind of coat and I’d be looking at getting at least £800 for it

You could find a furrier and have it remade? An old fashioned muff on a chain to keep your hands toasty, a wrap for your neck, cuffs to attach to sleeves on a coat, cushion covers etc....

Just catching up on this thread and am aghast at the thought of using this beautiful coat for pets to lie down on -just no!

OP as above there are many places you could attain a good price for this, it looks to be in impeccable condition which always helps too. Please do not make fluffy cushions out of this-wear it with pride or sell it (to me ;-) )

I would agree with lots of previous posters, I suppose wearing fur in general these days is far less taboo and certainly vintage fur "acceptable".
And let's face it our consumption of meat, dairy and all other things listed above are really no different.

Hope you find whatever feels like the right choice for you x

I wear my mums fur coat from the sixties and I love it, no one has ever said anything apart from how gorgeous it is.

It's an interesting debate though, the ethics of it.

On the news last night there was a story about how much Brazilian rainforest is being destroyed to grow soya.
Everyone these days seems to have some sort of down jacket - are the birdies that the down comes from bred purely for their down? If so, then no different to breeding an animal for it's fur.
I'm not condoning breeding animals for fur but I'm curious about how it all sits in the wider picture in this throwaway world of consumption we now live in.

As someone whose family comes from a country partially in the arctic, I know there is nothing warmer than real fur.

Given the recent fashion for big furry coats, would most people even realise it's real? Most people would just assume it's fake?

I could actually do with it over my knees in my freezing office

Swiftier

Indeed. Breathtaking views.

Paganmolloy. Yes, sadly large chunks of the Amazon are destroyed to grow soya. Most of the soya is fed to animals (the stats I have seen indicate up to 97% of the soya grown is fed to livestock). Feeding crop to livestock to grow the livestock for human consumption is much less efficient, uses much more land and water, than feeding crop directly to humans.

Realise this is way off-topic but thought it useful to point out.

I feel a duty to wear it so as the animal didn't die in vain. The same way I feel a duty to eat nose-to-tail (dog gets the vile bits) and I find it morally abhorrent to bin an uncooked chicken. Once the animal is dead it deserves to be "used".

Given how much real fur is turning up on modern Chinese crap - including dog - embrace your vintage.