To Faux or not to Faux

Faux Fur

Real Fur

Talking about this years trends has bought me on to the issue of fur. Real fur is massive this season, and to be honest, to me, like animal print, denim, leather etc evan when it goes out of fashion, its still in fashion, hanging at the back of everyones wardrobe just waitin to come bk into vogue, and being worn by those people who differ from the trends and set the new trends. However the issue surrounding fur has now, over recent years, become quite controversial. Real fur has been used by designers for decades, it has always been the piece de la resistance, a luxuary item for customers who want to feel the quality of what there buying and for many people is a statement garment of their wealth. Many years ago my generations grandmas, aunties etc owned many real fur jackets, and how they were made and how the fur was obtained was not questioned nor an issue. Nowadays if you own a real fur designer jacket it will set you back thousands and not every tom dick and harry can afford one, and due to years of campaigners and anti-rights activists we now know where that real fur were wearing has come from and now not every tom, dick and harry wants one. In the 20's 30's 40's etc you were complemented on wearing real fur jackets, now if your seen to be in what looks like a real fur coat, you get sneers or comments etc. I was once wearing a faux fur leopard print jacket whilst on the tube and due to the jacket being pretty good quality and looking quite real, a woman came upto me and said i should be disgusted with myself for parading around in real fur, the fact i was a poor trampy looking student getting of at dagenham station should have gave her the clue it wasn't real, but i actually thought it was going to be one of those paint thrown over my jacket moments lol.....I am absolutely against real fur, animal testing and anything along those lines and i am a member of peta and a regular vegetarian who sometimes falls a bit by the wayside when i smell or see seafood :-) however evan in the name of fashion you would never ever get me in a real fur jacket. I do not understand how in this day and age with all the campaigns going on, all the shocking videos released, all the celebrities turning there back on real fur, there are stil people that wear real fur and more shocking than that, the amount of people wearing it is on the up. I am not someone who would preach or push my views on other people and i certainly would not judge someone if they were wearing a real fur jacket, as i have many friends that do, i just find it hard to know that people own cats, dogs, rabbits etc and they can wear a fur coat knowing full well what has happened to the animal in order for that coat to be made....I personally blame the designers. These days you can purchase high quality, quite expensive faux fur jackets that look identical to real fur jackets.. So the question is, in these times with faux fur coats looking and feeling so real, is it time we stopped making and buying real fur jackets. Unfortunatly i can not see designers cuttin back on the use of real fur nor the cusmtomers stopping buying real fur anytime soon.

Real Fur or Faux fur?