Question about double sided coats

[Efferus33]

Hi, 

I am thinking about getting a blue fox bomber when I saw an Instagram post where someone had put rabbit in his fox coat. I thought that could make my coat so much more confortable.

That seams like a fur dream, but is it practical ? Have any of you tried and regretted, like because that made the coat too hot or unpractical ?

It’s between 0 and 10 degrees Celsius in my country during the winter so blue fox is probably already overkill. 

Have a nice weekend !

[Kidnapped]

It is unpractical. And awesome. And too heavy. And just mindblowingly good. And too thick so you look a little like the Michelin man. But the softness to wear it is just so good.

All in all you may want to wear little more than a t-shirt under it, because even at -10C such a jacket will keep you warm enough. Only trouble is: as much as you love the jacket, you will wear it way fewer times than you might wish you did. Dream-pieces rarely stand the all-day-test. But... owning a dream-piece is still so satisfying.

[Efferus33]

Thanks for the reply! Maybe we all need that one piece that is heaven to wear! I’ll see what I do.

I find it interesting how often some online furriers are now making those double-sides pieces and putting them on their instagram.

I don’t know if it’s new or if it has always been the case. 

Edited June 7 by Efferus33
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[Kidnapped]

7 hours ago, Efferus33 said:

don’t know if it’s new or if it has always been the case. 

Oh my... if you want to dive into that topic...

Look, being a furrier was and still is an art. It takes experience and trained craftmanship to turn a fur into clothing. That... and a lot of endurance, too. You need to have a good visual imagination and, yes, an idea of design, even fashion and the proportions of the human body. So, nobody becomes a furrier just like that. It takes determination and a lot of it. 

Imagine you spend so much effort into mastering this craftmanship... only to learn that fur is falling more and more out of fashion. 

So, what do you do? You have spent so much time and effort into your education. And you need to fill the fridge, put some meat on the table. 

And suddenly (thanks to the internet) more and more people express a desire for crazy pieces. 10, 15 years ago these freaks (that is us) would only have dared to shyly buy something on ebay. But we have grown more bold, have seen photos of people being braver than us, have seen what is possible. Have seen that furries do not chase us out of their stores. And why would they? They desperately need customers, maybe now more than ever. 

So, no... doublesided furs have never been the norm. Neither have full pelts. But with more pelts on the market than there is demand, with furriers who try to make a living because they love their job and with more people asking for niche-products... yeah... those furriers start to offer pieces they wouldn't even have thought to find a buyer for, some years ago. 

What we see as offerings on instagram and tictoc is the result of a craftmanship fighting to stay alive. The few furriers that are left adapt to stay in business, somehow. And some of them do it pretty successful.

[Efferus33]

Thanks for the explanation very interesting.

Between the COVID and it’s effect on farms, those that lost their Russian clients because of the war (and those that have to survive to it like Sobolini) I mean those are hard times.

Its just strange to think that some furrier barely make any new fur while others are close to being specialised in making full length double sided coats.

But you explained it very well.