Members Cat Posted February 26, 2010 Members Share Posted February 26, 2010 Only once, when I was offered one a cigarette break at a party (it looked black-and-white in the night-time light but I now realize it must have been those black-and-golds). I have passed the store on Fifth Ave a number of times, though. Susan Lucci in a RED mink? Honey, you must have drag queens genuflecting at your feet right about now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted February 28, 2010 Author Members Share Posted February 28, 2010 TV Tropes.Org has an article on Dynasty, and mentions all this: shoulders of doom, pretty in mink, screw the rules - I have money, smoking is cool, <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SmokingIsGlamorous">smoking is glamorous</a>... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphanguy74 Posted February 28, 2010 Members Share Posted February 28, 2010 I LOVE Joan in her furs. She's a woman who was made to wear them. Somehow Lucci doens't look as good in them, I don't know why. My grandmother had a coat with a mink collar (this was a big splurge for a farm wife)... but my brother, many years ago... hunted and sold furs. Coyotes could bring some decent money, and raccoons weren't bad either (and you ate the coons, so there wasn't any waste), before the bottom dropped out of the market. My biggest problem with so many anti-fur campaigns is that they use these cute little "fuzzy wuzzy" animals as their poster children. I see billboards that say "you should be ashamed to wear fur"... but I've yet to see one that says "you should be ashamed to buy a fishing pole", or "You should be ashamed to buy rat poison". But you know, i've felt SOME fox that seemed kind of coarse to me... but then some that felt much nicer, i'm assuming it's a quality thing. Although it's CHEAP... just for FEEL, my favorite is still RABBIT! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted February 28, 2010 Members Share Posted February 28, 2010 Rabbit *is* extremely soft. The problem is of course that it sheds and the leather is fragile, pieces fall off and stick to everything. Anyone who's had parent who kept their funky rabbit coat from the '70s in the hall closet knows what I'm talking about. Sheared rabbit feels very nice, like velvet and sheds less, but of course these days they use Rex rabbit/orylag to mimic the MUCH more expensive chinchilla: Rex: http://theodorafur.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/057.85173755_std.JPG http://www.fur-china.net/rexchinchilla/rex-chinchilla-scarf.jpg Chinchilla http://peterpalms.com/couvre-lit/graphics/chinbedspread.jpg http://www.poshandbeyond.com/images/chinchillascarf/chinchillascarf.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted February 28, 2010 Author Members Share Posted February 28, 2010 Good thing I hate fur. Mink, chinchilla, rabbits, racoons, sable... All. And find it awful, a completely lacking in tastefulness. Just screams k!tsch, ostentatious and vulgar display of 'wealth' or whatever. Ew. Even if Nan Kempner used to wear it: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphanguy74 Posted March 1, 2010 Members Share Posted March 1, 2010 I'm a Bob Mackie Bitch all the way...Oh, I LOVE vulgar displays of EVERYTHING. fur, sequins, over the top hairstyles: Call me strange, and it's fur... but "sheared" fur, i've always loved Angora (me and those rabbits!). I used to have this fluffy Angora pullover sweater in Light blue and lavender stripes, and I LOVED it. Fur CAN be tacky if overdone... then you get into "pimp" territory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members quartermainefan Posted March 1, 2010 Members Share Posted March 1, 2010 I just don't know why in 2010 people still wear it. I get it looks good, but nothing keeps me warm like my goretex. That is some crazy fabric! I walk out in 40 degrees with a summer shirt under the goretex and am perfectly fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted March 1, 2010 Members Share Posted March 1, 2010 Is that Dusty? That's actually restrained for Dusty I've never heard of that. I assume it's not related to Al Gore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members quartermainefan Posted March 1, 2010 Members Share Posted March 1, 2010 Goretex is just a synthetic material you see every day people wearing in the winter. You could climb a mountain in it and stay warm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphanguy74 Posted March 1, 2010 Members Share Posted March 1, 2010 Its the softness that's the appeal of fur, at least for ME. Many men indulge in the fur: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K8vD9C82go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 1, 2010 Members Share Posted March 1, 2010 One day, I will have my floor-length silver fox, and if it makes me look like a pimp, then so be it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted March 1, 2010 Members Share Posted March 1, 2010 +1 http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=liberace+source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dliberace%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den%26tbs%3Disch:1&imgurl=3fc5157e4511a42e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 1, 2010 Members Share Posted March 1, 2010 On second thought, maybe I'll just settle for a stole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted March 1, 2010 Members Share Posted March 1, 2010 LOL, I tried to upload a pic of the much cooler and more pimpin' Duke from Rocky V in his full-length silver fox, but it wouldn't let me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted March 30, 2010 Members Share Posted March 30, 2010 I know this is all old hat but here's a few more recent photos put up of Joan's VL appearance. This stuff airs in early or mid May. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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