addicted Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 I mourn the passing of being able to wear my mink immensely. Nothing is as flattering on a woman or as warm. When my mother died I gave her ranch mink coat to a charity shop knowing I would not be able to wear it and being unable to bear throwing it away My fraternal grandmother was a courturier and furrier to the court of George V and queen Mary and when I was about 2 years old she made me a fur coat for the winter, ( not mink I hasten ro add!.) Each year she would insert new pelts to allow for my growth and this saw me through the majority of my chidhood, saving my parents a lot of money. No doubt the zealots previously referred to are the same kind of fools that released mink from a fur farm into the wild where they have wreaked havoc doing untold damage to the ecosystem. Carole 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MauriceMynah Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Fake fur is made from oil. Greenpeace should be condemning it and supporting mink farms. I suppose it all depends on whether you want to save the world or snub the wealthier people on it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marshman Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 No - thats not quite how I see it! I refer to see our indigenous population of water voles which the mink had put under a lot of pressure rather than a fur coat on legs!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MauriceMynah Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Sorry MM, I should have made myself clearer. I meant... Properly controlled captive mink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveO Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 3 hours ago, MauriceMynah said: Sorry MM, I should have made myself clearer. I meant... Properly controlled captive mink. Which they all were until the animal rights activists came to town. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MauriceMynah Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 58 minutes ago, SteveO said: Which they all were until the animal rights activists came to town. "Properly" includes security! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YnysMon Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 I regret giving away the fox fur jacket that one of my grandmother's customer's gave me (she was a seamstress and had a few valued customers that had become friends over the years). As Mark said, it was vintage, made long before the current anti fur views became accepted. And it was fox, not mink, so not from a caged animal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rightsaidfred Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 17 hours ago, MauriceMynah said: Fake fur is made from oil. Greenpeace should be condemning it and supporting mink farms. I suppose it all depends on whether you want to save the world or snub the wealthier people on it. Save the world!! ban people save wildlife. Just a thought Fred 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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