Here's Mel checking out the price tags:
This was just one of the big differences I noticed between England and the American South. Animal rights is a huge thing over here -- if you even try to wear a fur on the street, you will be hassled and someone will throw paint on it if they can.
It would be unheard of that you could actually display furs in a department store like that, and they would be untouched. In England, they would be destroyed within moments. No kidding. Animal rights are very important here.
(I counted three women wearing fur coats at my god-daughter's wedding. It's so unusual a sight to see here that I noticed them immediately and stared.)
OK, that was one big difference I noticed, and the other was that you can smoke anywhere you want in Natchez -- even in small restaurants. I thought smoking in public was dead, but no.
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I also was shocked by the fur coats in Natchez. What is so funny is that you certainly don't need one down here - except for the horrible winter we just had. But people will wear them if there's even a chill in the air. They are a status symbol - like they used to be in the 50s.
The Humane Society is very strong here, but they wouldn't dare condemn fur coats. They'd lose their benefactors.
Yes, they are throwback tacky status symbols for old women.
Sorry, Suz, I beg to differ. I am a vegetarian and an animal lover, but when my husband offered to buy me a mink coat for our 25th anniversary, I said "HELL, YEAH!" I fully acknowledge my hypocrisy, and would like to apologize to the minks who gave their lives for my Blackglama stroller. Tacky throwback status symbol it may well be, and wearable only about twice a year in our Southern-USA climate (as Casey Ann observed), but...what can I say. I also wear leather shoes/boots. I'll put animal stuff ON my body, just not IN it! So sue me.
We don't have much needfor furs in Phoenix, and I suspect most of the ones you see at the opera, etc. are on snowbirds and out-of-towners, but PETA is very active here and you have people throwing blood and stuff. Done it to ladies wearing FAUX fur, too; seems to me they should support those, but maybe the look offends them?
yes, people would get hassled for wearing faux fur too -- if it looks like the real thing -- but fake fur dyed another color is OK.
yes bmj, then you meet my definition of a tacky throwback (hypocrite) who likes status symbols because they give the valueless (you) value. Hell YEAH (redneck).
"The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."
* F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Handle With Care", Esquire Magazine (March 1936).
SQ, valueless though I be, I am so happy to "meet your definition." Now may your lips meet my ass, as I certainly invite you to kiss it, but only after you wipe your snarky smirk off 'em. And by the way, it's "bWj"... that would be, "MADAME bwj" to you, darlin'...:):)
...But... why is fur itself bad? I've never heard of anyone throwing paint on leather shoes, or a leather car, or a hamburger. I wear my grandmother's fur stole when I dress up in the winter. It's been used for generations, as opposed to a leather car seat which will be tossed after a few years, or a steak, which lasts the length of a meal. Seems to me that if one is to use a part of an animal, a multigenerational fur coat is a good way to do it, no?
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