How to Choose a Fur Coat

Every girl dreams of a beautiful fur coat from the moment she began to think about her clothing. It isn’t surprising, because a fur coat not only keeps her mistress warm, but also shows her taste and of course, status. Nowadays there are so many fur coats that often arises a question: how to choose a good fur coat?
The choice of the fur should be properly considered, so that you won’t feel sorry for your money.

Fur coat purchase

Do you want a chic mink fur coat just to show off in the party?

First of all decide, what fur you want. Mink, fox and beaver fur coats are very popular, sable and chinchilla furs are very expensive and rare, coyote and opossum furs are used for men overcoats.
Decide what do you need a fur coat for. Do you want a chic mink fur coat just to show off in the party? Or you need a warm overcoat for every day, and maybe stylish jacket or a coat with fur collar will be appropriate?
Women, who are interested only in their style, won’t be worried about the ability of fur coat to keep warm and its durability. The main factor in this case is fashion brand and high price of the fur.
Those who prefer practicality, durability and comfort, should know that the warmest fur have sable, fox and mouton. Then go the blue fox fur, beaver, chinchilla, nutria, seal and mink. The coldest are considered to be ermine and marmot furs.
The most durable will be a coat from otter and seal – 20 seasons. You can wear the fur coat from river beaver for 18 seasons. Astrakhan and mink will look good for 10 winters, 7-8 seasons – the term of life of blue fox, sheepskin, fox and sable fur. You’ll enjoy squirrel, nutria and musquash for 4 winters, rabbit and chinchilla only for 2-3 seasons.
Decide, whether you want a fur coat from shorn fur or unshorn, dyed or natural. Special processings, such as fur dyeing, usually just increase the price. Dyed furs are the most popular nowadays, they look unusual and modern. If the fur was dyed due to all the rules of technological process, it won’t influence the quality. That’s why, don’t be afraid to buy a fur coat with dyed back spines. Such bright colored furs as yellow, red, orange, and snuff-colored, violet and cherry-colored are very durable too. So the choice of the fur – dyed or natural – depends only on your taste.
Go through the shops, compare the fur coats, their prices, models and quality. Don’t try to choose the most fashionable. Of course it depends on your taste, but if you are going to wear the fur coat for a long time, it is better to choose a classic model. The classics are out of time. Anyway, buy the coat that suits you, in which you feel comfortable.
To choose a really qualitative fur coat, consider different furs. Fur coat should be smooth, shiny, soft, and if you rub it the wrong way, the fur shouldn’t crunch and break. Squeeze the lap in a hand. Qualitative fur will get its original form at once.
Try the fur coat on and decide, if it’s weight suits you. Is it too heavy? But at the same time the fur coat shouldn’t be too light. Convenience is not the only reason to choose a fur coat due to its weight. To decrease weight and to save the fur, the fur is stretched: the width of the skin decreases, but the distance between the furs increases, as a result the fur coat becomes cold. The weight of the fur coat depends on the length of the fur, the quality of fell dressing and the presence of warmth-keeping jacket. Lately the warmth-keeping jacket is either not used at all, or used only in the chest and back area.
Selecting a fur coat, check the stitches. Fur coat made of well dressed fells is soft, falling. Usually there is no lining on the bottom of long fur coat, it’s a good sign: it means that producer has nothing to hide.

Advices on fur coat purchase

We often don’t know what fur coat to choose, how to evaluate its real price. The price of the fur coat usually depends on the quality of tailoring, fashion, brand, number and quality of whole fells. The more pieces are in the fur coat, the cheaper it is. Producers can cunningly glue the pieces on fabric, so that nobody will notice it. The whole fell is considered to be a cut of 15×15 sm. If the cut is smaller – then the price of the fur coat should be 20-30 % lower, then the price of the coat from whole fells.
Buy a fur coat that corresponds to your budget. It is better to choose a qualitative beaver fur coat, then a mink fur coat of low quality
Very cheap fur coat usually have some defects or are of low quality.

Remember also that the way of killing the animals, from which the fur coat is made, is also important. That’s why you should be very careful, selecting a fur coat that was not made on the factory or that is sold on the market. Fur coat producers are not always humane. So nobody can guarantee that the fur coat you are going to buy was not made of the fells of tortured animals. This fur coat, even being very cheap, can cause a lot of troubles. The fur of the tortured animal has its energy and can influence the person, who wears it.

So, having all the necessary knowledge and advices, you can easily choose one of the most important purchases in your life. Don’t forget that the chosen fur coat usually can’t be exchanged or returned, so you have the right to look it through, to touch and to try it on as many times as you think is necessary.
Have a good purchase!