How can I reuse or recycle a fur coat?
We’ve had an email from “the Cleworths”, asking a rather interesting question:
A family member died and we are left with a fur coat that charity shops won’t take and neither will any period clothing outlets.
Any advice as how to pass this on other than taking to dump?
I can see why charity shops won’t take them – even though it’s second hand, it’d still be promoting the idea of fur as clothing – but does that mean the coat should just be dumped?
Is there anything that can be done with it that won’t promote the future use of fur – but stops this fur being wasted?
(Photo by markjhandel)
UPDATE: I’ve just deleted about 40 comments of people trying to buy or sell fur coats. I don’t like censoring discussion but this isn’t the place for it or for organising buying/selling stuff and it’s clogging up the comments list. Any future comments of this nature will be deleted too.
i have fur coats for sale if any one is interested.i have all kinds short and long.they are of all kinds:bear,fox,sheep,bison and others.if u are interested leave me a message on my e-mail:korche_3@hotmail.com.thanks alot
do you still have the coats for sale many thanks
There are places in the US to recycle FUR . check out my blog
http://evolutionvtg.blogspot.com/2011/08/compassionate-recycling.html
FUR is WEAK & NOT CHIC!
I’m a veg, and I don’t promote buying new furs, but once you have a fur coat that someone passed down to you it’s not like you can bring the animal back to life. If you have any sewers in your family, I’d suggest looking up teddy bear patterns. We have a fur teddy bear in our house that was made under the same situation. This way you can still have an heirloom that you can pass down to someone, and the fur doesn’t go to waste.
Ther is so thing to be made with the old fur coats.You can visit our facebook/boutique-atelier-lausanne or http://www.boutiquelausanne.ca. Away of restoring life in our old fur coats