Would you ever consider (or have you) wearing real fur?

[Fassa Albrecht]

Question's in the title and I'll put up a poll. Searched, nothing recent came up.

I've just been reading an article sent to me by a friend of mine on Burberry's use of fur and how real fur is being sold still in Europe and the West, often mislabelled.


So I was thinking: people wear leather on a regular basis, including (I'm guessing) an overwhelming number of TBers. But how many people here would openly wear real fur? Or something like crocodile skin?

[Hoover]

I would wear beaver. In a heartbeat.

What?

[Fassa Albrecht]

I don't think I could bring myself to openly wear fur somehow. I don't know why.

[Relic]

I have 4 rabbit skins and I can't figure out what to make out of them....
anyone have any suggestions? I was thinking gloves (fur-side in)

[Fassa Albrecht]

Originally Posted by Relic

I have 4 rabbit skins and I can't figure out what to make out of them....
anyone have any suggestions? I was thinking gloves (fur-side in)

Leaving them on the rabbit would have been a good idea. Poor little bunny...

[Relic]

Originally Posted by Fassa Albrecht

Leaving them on the rabbit would have been a good idea. Poor little bunny...

nah, he didn't need it anymore.

[Fassa Albrecht]

Originally Posted by Relic

nah, he didn't need it anymore.

I actually laughed at this...I am a bad person.

[HEIST]

I love wearing dead animal.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Only with formal attire, the ladies love a man in a Kilt with a hairy Sporran

I'm guessing this is more a question of ethics. I wear a leather jacket regularly, I have and regularly wear leather shoes and boots. Ethically, I have no problem wearing fur, but I don't think it's a good look on me, other than in the aforementioned formal attire.

[SoonerMatt]

No, but only because it's out of style and I'd look ridiculous wearing it.

[Fassa Albrecht]

Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

Only with formal attire, the ladies love a man in a Kilt with a hairy Sporran

I'm guessing this is more a question of ethics. I wear a leather jacket regularly, I have and regularly wear leather shoes and boots. Ethically, I have no problem wearing fur, but I don't think it's a good look on me, other than in the aforementioned formal attire.

No-one bats an eyelid at leather though.

And what's a sporran?

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Originally Posted by Fassa Albrecht

No-one bats an eyelid at leather though.

And what's a sporran?

Plenty people complain about leather.

It's just that fur was/is more of a status symbol, those damned rich people, killing animals and stuff.


Sporran : Let me google that for you

[Fassa Albrecht]

OOps, that's what a sporan is.


Brain's on autopilot. I'm gettingg fdrunk...

[Kwesi]

I would if it didn't look stupid in 99% of it's implementations.

[Fassa Albrecht]

Originally Posted by Kwesi

I would if it didn't look stupid in 99% of it's implementations.

Lawlz.z

[SMILEYSIXX]

Don't wear fur, don't wear leather, and I try to avoid meat. Not full on vegetarian, but if possible, I avoid meat. I understand eating meat though because it's a regular part of most people's diet, but adding insult to injury buy WEARING a dead animal is, in my eyes, a pretty douchey thing to do.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

I see it as a pretty douchey thing to waste the materials of a dead animal.

[Relic]

Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

I see it as a pretty douchey thing to waste the materials of a dead animal.

+1

[GregC]

Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

I see it as a pretty douchey thing to waste the materials of a dead animal.

Yeah, but animals are being trapped and killed specifically for their fur or raised on fur farms.

[Staccato]

Yes, I love to hunt small animals in season, too!