Would you wear...

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A vintage fur? Mum died and has several fur coats. 40+ yrs old. One well worn; the other barely out of it’s cover.

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You need to keep it. Even if you only wear it around the house.

No, apart from just not wanting to wear part of a dead animal (I don't wear leather either or eat meat or fish or slaughterhouse by products), if people wear vintage furs that just contributes to keeping the wearing of fur being seen as normal and acceptable. If I inherited a vintage fur I would consider donating it to PETA.

It looks beautiful, not sure I would wear it but only because I would feel self conscious, in the other hand it is no good stuck in the back of a cupboard so I would do as pp said and make a throw or cushions, or even seat cover for the car so non od it goes to waste.

I would wear it if i liked it. Purely on taste i dont like it. Plus if you wore it out her smell will fade quicker. Id just have it at home to snuggle up when i miss her.

I'd probably wear it at home (freezing house).
I don't usually give a tiny rats ass what people think, but I might if I wore a fur out.

No, I'm sorry, I know it has sentimental value to you, but to most modern eyes it will look grim and barbaric. I think you will get so many looks and comments it will spoil your memories in any case. It is a memory of you mum, but it is of its time and that time has gone.

I don't think I could bring myself to wear it. But could you have it remade into a throw for the bed or sofa?

In those circumstances, yes I would. It will remind you of your mum. Agree it would look good dressed down.

If you do decide to donate instead, please call charity shops and ask what they do with donated fur, many wont sell it, even online. I volunteered in a charity shop a few years ago and remember an argument between the manager and deputy manager about if they would just put a donated fur in the bin. In the end, the manager took it home, ebayed it from her personal account and donated the money raised back to the charity. The deputy manager still maintained they should have just sent it to landfill. [Sad]

I couldn't wear it, as someone said can you have it made into cushion covers.

It’d be a very small throw. And it’s so exquisitely made, I actually think it’d be sad to chop the garment up to make a small throw. Personally, I’m not much of a clothes horse but, as I say, it’s beautifully put together.

It’s very old fashioned so I’m not sure how I’d wear it TBH. Probably, just with jeans. My mum used to get comments on it. She never had any “bad” comments but I do know her to have claimed it was faux. We were shopping and someone said it was a beautiful coat but “please tell me it’s not real fur”. She said it wasn’t and the woman said “it’s amazing how faux fur has come on, isn’t it?”

I’ll give it more thought. I have it airing now. In my family, I’m the only one it’d fit tbh.

The style is definitely vintage, I'd wear it although I'd never buy a new one.

@goose1964... No, it wouldn’t occur to me to go out and buy a new one. Though I do have a very nice softest soft leather coat and I never give that a second thought.

My son came home today from college. Saw the coat hanging up and said “Grandma... smells of her still”. She always wore either Cartier or Chanel No.19 so, probably a combination of both.

That may be the decider to pack it up and put it away again.

Its lovely. Yes wear it.

I would wear a vintage fur, but not the current fur trim coats with farmed animals.

I'm another that absolutely would not wear it. It's not just that it's dead animal, it's the sheer number of animals, and how they lived in hell and then died horribly. If you're thinking about lying that it is fake, then your conscience is already telling you something.

I'd donate it to an animal sanctuary that could use it. I cant remember what they do, but it might be making pretend 'mothers' to feed orphaned babies.

@Judystilldreamsofhorses

dizzy my gran had a similar thing but it was a whole fox that clipped its tail in its mouth to make a kind of scarf (stole?). I was obsessed with it as a child.

My gran had one of those too. It’s eyes were horrible, it had a baleful glare.

No. I've never liked fur coats. I'd never wear one.

My gran had two of the fox scarfs (one had a twisted up face), and a fur coat.

I can still remember the horrible smell they had.

Yes I would wear it, I used to have a fox fur stole. and a mink fur collar, both were given to me by my adored late Grandmother. I used to put the fur collar on one of my best coats in the winter. I wore the fur stole to go over evening wear on cool evenings, But all this was many years ago when I did a lot of ballroom dancing, and liked to glam up for the nights.

I would not buy real fur now though, but having some vintage fur is nice to own.

A few years ago, I knew a woman who bought a lovely real fur coat,she went out in it, and someone of the anti fur type, through a large glass of red wine all over this fur coat in protest.