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halleybird · Hermes

Is this true? (Re: fur)

erin · Chanel

well, since it's not peta saying it, it might have some truth..i don't really know though.

wicked · Coach

Sort of off topic, but I heard PETA report that J. Crew uses dog and cat pelts from china.

wicked · Coach

http://www.peta2.com/OUTTHERE/o-tommylee-chinafur.asp

here's the link

Sorry for hijacking

(for some reason I wasn't able to edit my original post)

laken1 · Hermes

Ok, I seriously couldn't watch that video.

Hermione · Kate Spade

Yeah, I'm not going to even click on the link - I usually try to avoid these topics anyway - they upset me too much -

it seems a little odd to me that companies would want to pass off real fur as fake ...

hrm

halleybird · Hermes

indiekitten wrote:

Yeah, I'm not going to even click on the link - I usually try to avoid these topics anyway - they upset me too much -
it seems a little odd to me that companies would want to pass off real fur as fake ...
hrm

me too -- you'd think it would be the other way around.

The fur trade makes me sick anyway. I decided last year not even to buy faux fur, because I don't like promoting the fur "look."

laken1 · Hermes

So halleybird, how do we know if that article is true? Have you been able to find anything else on it? I would never have thought that anything marked as fake fur would be real! I guess I assumed that was regulated somewhere.....

I sent the info to my MIL - she is a relentless animal rights activist, perhaps she has heard something / knows something...we'll see.

-- Edited by laken1 at 09:25, 2005-10-21

Seashells · Dooney & Bourke

I did notice that it says that real fur may be "unlabeled"- so that may not mean mislabeled meaning that something can say "FAUX FUR" and it really is faux. *Hopefully*

halleybird · Hermes

laken1 wrote:

So halleybird, how do we know if that article is true? Have you been able to find anything else on it? I would never have thought that anything marked as fake fur would be real! I guess I assumed that was regulated somewhere..... I sent the info to my MIL - she is a relentless animal rights activist, perhaps she has heard something / knows something...we'll see. -- Edited by laken1 at 09:25, 2005-10-21

I am not sure how to find out. But the Humane Society is not as radical as, say, PETA -- all the previous news alerts I have received from them have been legit. I guess I believe them.

ETA: I think most of the cases are probably like Seashells pointed out -- unlabeled.

-- Edited by halleybird at 18:45, 2005-10-21

poptart · Coach

I think it is true, unfortunately. I've seen several fabric bags with suede components that aren't labeled.

Something similar happened to me. I purchased a white wool coat (I am trying to get away from wool, but it's hard) with what I thought was a faux-fur collar, because it wasn't labeled. The label under the brand label said "100% wool." The coat was not particularly expensive, and was on a steep discount (I think I got it for about $50) so it never occurred to me that the fur could be real, since it wasn't labeled and the coat was so cheap. But when I took it to the dry cleaners, they informed me that they would need to detach the fur collar. I said "Oh no, don't worry about it; it's fake." The woman looked at it more closely and said, "No, it's real." Then she and I scoured the coat, and sewn into one of the seams on the bottom right side, totally out of sight, was a tiny label that said "Lining made with rabbit fur." I thought I was going to throw up. Obviously, this wasn't a case of "nonlabeling" but it was definitely misleading, since the "main" label didn't say anything about the fur.

halleybird · Hermes

oh, Lisa! That is horrible!

Mia · Kate Spade

Halleybird, unfortunately, this is true. About 6 years ago I saw a segment on one of the newsmagazines (20/20 or Dateline - I think it was Dateline) about this exact thing. They singled out a store called (I think) 'Burlington Coat Factory' as one that was selling coats with real fur. It was real fur, but it was dog fur, from China. The American SPCA was the organization that brought the story to light and they interviewed the then-head of the US SPCA (don't know you guys call it!). They also had video footage that to this day I cannot get out of my head, and which I am not going to describe. Suffice it to say it was one of, probably the most awful thing I have ever seen in my life. Dogs are raised in China for their fur and slaughtered in ways that, honestly, make electrocution seem almost humane.

So everyone who is concerned about this, if you are wearing fur, MAKE SURE it's from where you think it's from.

-- Edited by Mia at 20:52, 2005-10-28

halleybird · Hermes

Mia...that is horrific. I hate Burlington CF anyway, and now I have another reason. Like I said, I was never that into faux-fur in the first place, but I am going to make sure not to buy it now.