Now when it comes to wearing fur, I come down on the "anti" side of the fence. I could say it's because of the senseless killing of cuddly little snuggly things, but I'd rather approach the issue from an aesthetic vantage point. Mind you, I live and work in Eastern Europe, which, if you'll pardon the pun, is a whole different animal when it comes to fur.
But my argument is quite simple: it looks like crap. Somehow the fur industry has marketed their product so well here that women (and a scattering of men, ugh!) have got it into their minds that wearing a fur muumuu is a sexy and trendy thing. I've heard from quite a few women here that wearing fur makes them feel sexy and that they feel like all eyes are on them.
Now I know it was the "in" thing back in New York in the Studio 54 days when to be rich wasn't enough (you had to be tastelessly ostentatious as well), but I thought those days well behind us.
Enter the bear suit.
I say bear suit because these rather large (and I imagine, heavy) fur rugs are usually worn by women on the losing side of the figure wars and as such they present the image of a rather large bear waddling down the snow-padded streets. It really doesn't help either, when they top their chilly heads with a furry cap uncannily resembling a furry afro (sometimes this "frafro" sports an attached tail which proudly adorns the back of the wearer's neck-- à la harlem globetrotter meets Daniel Boone).
I understand how culture can influence fashion and that there is no "universal fashion sense", but really? I mean, come on! If you're going to buy a fur coat with the aim of showing off the fact that you are wealthy enough to blow an exorbitant amount of money on a coat made from the pliant skin of the last virgin, baby koala, go right ahead! But you'd have to be a bit delusional to think the darned thing made you look "sexy". If the folks living here have started equating wealth and ostentatiousness with sexiness then I'd say they need a lot more experience with capitalism. At least to a point where they become more comfortable in their own skin...
Just my 2 cents.
But my argument is quite simple: it looks like crap. Somehow the fur industry has marketed their product so well here that women (and a scattering of men, ugh!) have got it into their minds that wearing a fur muumuu is a sexy and trendy thing. I've heard from quite a few women here that wearing fur makes them feel sexy and that they feel like all eyes are on them.
Now I know it was the "in" thing back in New York in the Studio 54 days when to be rich wasn't enough (you had to be tastelessly ostentatious as well), but I thought those days well behind us.
Enter the bear suit.
I say bear suit because these rather large (and I imagine, heavy) fur rugs are usually worn by women on the losing side of the figure wars and as such they present the image of a rather large bear waddling down the snow-padded streets. It really doesn't help either, when they top their chilly heads with a furry cap uncannily resembling a furry afro (sometimes this "frafro" sports an attached tail which proudly adorns the back of the wearer's neck-- à la harlem globetrotter meets Daniel Boone).
I understand how culture can influence fashion and that there is no "universal fashion sense", but really? I mean, come on! If you're going to buy a fur coat with the aim of showing off the fact that you are wealthy enough to blow an exorbitant amount of money on a coat made from the pliant skin of the last virgin, baby koala, go right ahead! But you'd have to be a bit delusional to think the darned thing made you look "sexy". If the folks living here have started equating wealth and ostentatiousness with sexiness then I'd say they need a lot more experience with capitalism. At least to a point where they become more comfortable in their own skin...
Just my 2 cents.
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