Comments on: Style on Trial: Faux Fur

By: karla

karla — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:29:38 +0000

u dont think fur trade is mean wat if they skin u would u like that?

By: Candice

Candice — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:29:44 +0000

I grew up in and live in Central Alberta, I can’t fathom, with all the natural beauty and wildlife around how people can see a fox, or lynx, or raccoon, and just want to kill it. I read about how trappers love nature, so why do they want to kill the animals? I don’t know, it makes no sense to me, or breed wildlife in captivity, to kill them for their skins, when it is not a necessity, I just don’t understand how people say they love wildlife, and only want to kill it for money. How is that ethical? Sustainable ‘harvesting’ of skins of sentient beings? I think many are just used to it so they can’t see why people are so appalled. But some people just don’t care about the suffering of animals, they are just ‘products’ to a lot of people. I don’t know how you can call something that causes such suffering ‘ethical’.

By: M

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:01:43 +0000

That’s exactly my point…I’m not saying all these people who want to wear it should just buck up and wear it, I’m saying I find it ridiculous that other people can be so…aggressive about their beliefs.
I’m not saying I know how to fix it…it just makes me wonder sometimes.

By: Marie Vahl

Marie Vahl — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:27:53 +0000

I totally agree with Kuri.
I live in Greenland, where people are as natural about death to wild animals as to animals living in a stall. If you eat meat, you kill animals. That’s pure fact, just because Brigitte Bardot was photographed with a baby seal doesn’t make fur more cruel to wild animals than a hamburger is.
I understand why people won’t wear their fur in public, nobody wants to be abused, but it is a sad fact. What if we were all abused for eating meat in public?

By: The Fashion Police

The Fashion Police — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:41:28 +0000

M – if you’d seen some of the abusive comments we have to delete from this site every time this subject is raised, you’d perhaps understand why people worry about this. Some people have very extreme views on the subject, and while it’s one thing to read that kind of abuse on a computer screen, it would be quite another thing to have to deal with it face to face.

By: M

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:13:42 +0000

I’m a (straight) guy, and I don’t much like fur because I just don’t really like the way it looks.
That said however, does anyone else find it ridiculous that you can’t wear what you want for fear of offending others? This thought came to me when reading some of the comments, in which people were saying they didn’t want to wear fake fur for fear of people thinking it was real.
I didn’t read them all so I’m not sure if it was addressed or not, and I do not mean this as any sort of attack on anyone (even crazy PETA people). Just my $0.02

By: Si

Si — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:21:06 +0000

I love real fur; fake fur takes hundreds of years to decompose so it is actually far worse for the environment than real. Having said that I have two fake fur coats from charity shops which I love and wear. I have about ten real fur coats as well as hats, scarves, gloves etc. For all you people saying how cruel it is, I really hope you are vegans, otherwise you are just a hypocrite.

By: The Fashion Police

The Fashion Police — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:17:30 +0000

Thanks for the comments folks: it’s interesting to get your perspective on this because as I said, I do love the look of fake fur, but have been wearing it less, mostly for the reason cited by Kelly – even although I don’t really think the one fake fur jacket I own could really be mistaken for the real thing, I do worry about getting abuse from people who either think it IS real, or who think fake fur is just as bad as the real thing.
Janers – those examples you give are just horrifying Really, really disturbing fur.
I think kkd’s comment probably best sums up how I feel about it personally, but always interested in hearing more opinions – it’s an interesting subject, so thanks again to everyone for the thoughtful responses.

By: Paiton Goodwin

Paiton Goodwin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:17:12 +0000

I voted for “Other-I’ll tell you in my comment” and heres my coment: Faux fur is alright. It’s a great look for some people but I,m not one of them. Faux fur makes me look bigger than I really am. I’m not that fat but in faux fur I look like I am. However, I think that for the people that it looks good on it is a timeless look that makes you look hot and traditional at the sme time. And I for one think that is a very hard look to pull off hot AND traditional!!!!

By: Janers

Janers — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:36:46 +0000

I love faux fur, as long as it isn’t that monster “fun” fur (worn seriously) or a purse that looks like a pet. I love that it wasn’t alive once only to die for fashion’s sake. I personally don’t think vintage fur is a animal rights sin, but I also can’t bring myself to wear a dead animals skinned off hair cells…:( ew. It’s nasty in my mind despite the so-called glamour.
High quality faux fur supplies the same look and soft feel. Plus that way I don’t risk wearing a cat a dog labled mink (which happens A LOT)…sadly. Not that a domestic animal’s life is more important, just closer?
Anal electrocution and skinning alive videos did it for me. Watching a raccoon with no skin in a pile on top of others, writhing in pain & batting long lashes, still alive was too much, or the foxes having their skulls stomped in.
I’m wearing faux for life.
I can’t seem to justify anything else.