The first paragraph uses the word "fur-a-palooza."
February 18, 2025
Another sign that the Trump movement is extending far into the culture.
This NYT article about how people are wearing furs again: "What Happened to the Stigma of Wearing Fur? After years of protests and strides in fake skins, vintage furs are popping up all over."
Posts
51 comments:
I'm having trouble associating "furs" with support for Trump. Perhaps I am wrong.
Come back to us Sarah Palin. All is forgiven.
If they are going back to furs, I hope they consider the reality of vintage animal products. After touching my grandmother's ancient, stiff fox stole and the old furry cat skin used to demonstrate static electricity in my high school science class, I'm not interested. Leather is nice and lasts forever if treated with the right preservatives, but fur degrades and can get smelly too. Consider the limited lifespans of down, where it leaks all over everything as it slowly crumbles to dust and sneezing powder. Consider the breakdown of stuffed hunting trophies (as insect food) too.
I think mostly people just no longer give a shit about whatever it is that the professional protestor class objects to.
The best, and most expensive, item of clothing I own is a camel-hair, beaver-lined collar chesterfield topcoat that belonged to my grandfather. Nobody gives a shit that one or more camels probably died in the coat's construction, but I've been asked at least once if the collar is mock-fur.
I am reminded of Dennis Leary's famous stand-up about dolphins vs. tuna fish...people, especially women, don't give a crap if the product came from something ugly and bad-tempered.
I'm having trouble associating "furs" with support for Trump.
I don't agree. This is on brand for the Trump era.
1 - Trump is rich and dresses his trophy wives in fur
2 - Trump doesn't give a fuck about political correctness or radical animal-rights activism
3 - Trump's sons are big-time hunters and undoubtedly have brought back some bearskin rugs and such
4 - Trump delights in antagonizing his opponents, and knows making real fur popular again would really push the buttons of the purple-haired vegan lesbian cat ladies in Vermont
My mom left my wife a very nice vintage mink stole that she won't wear out of fear of violence from the antifa types. I've promised her I'll bring one of my pistols and stay close beside her if she wants to chance it. Maybe now is the time. At the next hospital fundraising gala I'd definitely enjoy carrying my suppressed Walther PPK under my tux and pretending to be James Bond.
1. Who knew that NYC was such a hot bed of Trump supporters?
2. I love all the advertisements for vegan leather - that’s plastic to all you non-vegetarians.
"Nobody gives a shit that one or more camels probably died in the coat's construction, but I've been asked at least once if the collar is mock-fur."
What I would have said if I had time to think about: No, it's genuine fur, and my collar mocks you."
"The first paragraph uses the word 'fur-a-palooza.'"
That the NYT editors think "fur-palooza" is anything other than infantile gives the world all the reason needed to utterly distain the Gray Bitch.
It's all part of America realizing that we don't need to cave to a tiny minority, who always manage to be have access to bullhorns.
And get me some good low-angle stuff. Don't make it too obvious, but I want to see fur - and early morning dew.
"I love all the advertisements for vegan leather - that’s plastic to all you non-vegetarians."
But, but plastic comes from Evil Oil™️ that threatens the snail darter, et al. I'm gonna cry if vegans buy plastic.
And things may go still fur ther.
RideSpaceMountain writes, "Nobody gives a shit that one or more camels probably died in the coat's construction..."
That's because no camels did die. Camel hair is collected by hand or by machine when the camel sheds its coat in late spring. And I suppose you know that a "camel hair" brush is typically made from squirrel hair. You can't trust those ugly, noisy, spitting, bitting bastards -- they'll lie about anything.
"I love all the advertisements for vegan leather - that’s plastic to all you non-vegetarians."
Many of you have read me joking about 'vegan leather harnesses' here before, and this is as good a time as any to explain why I think the concept of vegan anything is so funny. It's not the idea of a bondage harness itself that's so funny, rather the ridiculous idea that it be vegan.
For instance, if I'm dominating a slave by spanking them with a leather riding crop, you'll be damn sure that little bastard is going to be 100% genuine mammal flesh (I will upgrade to premium alligator or chinchilla for a fee). None of this sissy vegan crap. Animals will most definitely be harmed in the making of this bondage video. When I think 'vegan leather', I picture two malnourished gay men that look like Uriah Heep having a slapfest instead of a spankathon.
Most of the time only the genuine article will do, lest someone not be taken seriously. Always vote for real. Always vote for genuine, unless you're a German latex masochist that looks like Uriah Heep.
"That's because no camels did die."
I can assure you that at the time and country my papaw bought it, camels (plural) most certainly died in its manufacture.
It's like the national vibe is happily shifting to "Swing baby, you're platinum!"
(The great Phil Hartman as Frank Sinatra)
Vintage fur? So not really a problem for current-day animals.
Hassayamper writes, "I'd definitely enjoy carrying my suppressed Walther PPK under my tux and pretending to be James Bond."
I carry a Ruger LC9s. It's the same size as the PPK, is much lighter, fits in the same shoulder holster, and fires 9mm Parabellum JHP that will blow a much larger hole in Blofeld than 7.65mm or .380 ACP. And I, too pretend to be James Bond, but I must ignore several unpleasant facts whilst doing so.
I read that and learned two things -
1. Mongolians have fur.
2. "Browing" is a thing.
The tone of the article was loosely favorable to the trend of Trump acceptance. This is a good thing.
Also, I feel happy, happy just from a vicarious participation in the sheer orgasmic joy the posing posers pictured in the article must have felt when they saw themselves in the Times.
And "fur-a-palooza" was a quote from the owner of business they were promoting.
"I can assure you that at the time and country my papaw bought it, camels (plural) most certainly died in its manufacture."
I tend to doubt that. It makes little sense even to a very uncaring camel owner. Why kill a camel for a pound or two of hair collected once, when the same camel kept alive can do the work usually expected of a camel for decades and produce useful and valuable hair every year as a free byproduct?
I think everybody has had a papaw who didn't always tell the young'uns the unvarnished veritas when a few unverified red-colored details could make them stare back in fascination and say wow...
Because Quaestor many countries don't just use camels for wool but for meat (and milk) as well, especially in N. Africa where my papaw was based during the war. Agronomics works up to the point the livestock has outlived its usefulness as transport and then what wool/fur/hair wasn't harvested beforehand is harvested as part of the tannery trade, something big in Morocco, Algeria, and Libya.
I assure you there are dead camel fibers in that coat. It did not have a beaver lining then, that was added by him when he returned to Chicago.
"Hassayamper said...
At the next hospital fundraising gala I'd definitely enjoy carrying my suppressed Walther PPK under my tux and pretending to be James Bond."
Out of curiosity did you hear about that from watching Steven Crowder? I know he had advertised that brand for a while.
Dixcus said...
It's extending further: Donald Trump just fired ALL of Biden's US Attorneys - en masse
Good. They won't be able to sabotage things from the unemployment line.
"I love all the advertisements for vegan leather - that’s plastic to all you non-vegetarians."
You don't know that. Maybe some cows died a natural death and as part of their estate planning donated their body to fashion.
Your average Trump voter could never afford to wear an expensive fur coat. This is just click bait.
We used to have a commenter named ironrailsironweights or something like that, who would love the news that "fur" is back in fashion....
JSM
I don't know if this marks the growth of the Trump Movement so much as the waning influence of fake, virtue-signaling, Woke Left. Though if this is being observed in NYC that does seem like a noteworthy sign of the decline of the Woke Left.
Vintage fur? Later, y'all! I'm heading over to Only Fans!
OT but for Dixcus's comment... Via Sundance.
"Put another way, 900 career DOJ lawyers, who used Main Justice as their platform to participate in corrupting and weaponizing the American judicial system for their own financial benefit, have now publicly self-identified".
https://www.thejusticeconnection.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Open_Letter_to_Federal_Prosecutors__2-18-2025_.pdf
My wife inherited a Mink stole and a totally gorgeous Coyote coat. She doesn't wear it for the reasons mentioned above. Her handicap renders an assault as likely fatal.
Jon Batiste
When I was young there was a lady who sat in the pew in front of me in church. She wore a mink stole with the heads on it. You don’t see that anymore.
One of the more interesting signs of a shift in the Zeitgeist can be best seen on online dating apps. Pre-Trump, conservatives and moderates (basically anyone who doesn't self-identify as liberal) would just leave the field for political preference blank. So often, in fact, that if someone *didn't* say they were liberal on their profile, it was safe to assume they were conservative.
Now, however, it's a different world. Women (the only profiles I see as a straight male) are listing their political preference as "conservative" or "moderate" in *hugely* greater numbers. Their politics haven't changed-- but fashion has.
The roaring twenties return.
Out of curiosity did you hear about that from watching Steven Crowder?
Haha nope. I learned about the PPK from watching James Bond movies and reading James Bond books a decade before Crowder was born.
Very funny Itchy and Scratchy piece on an old Simpsons episode.
Itchy nails Scratchy's feet to an escalator step. When it reaches the top Scratchy's fur is scraped off, leaving him looking flayed. But his fur is in one piece.
Scratchy throws his fur over his shoulders and walks out onto the street, where anti-fur people stone him for wearing fur.
heh
lonejustice said...
Your average Trump voter could never afford to wear an expensive fur coat. This is just click bait.
************
So, you're admitting the "average Kamala" voter CAN afford those furs? Yet THEY are representative of the People?
Thanks for the confirmation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fur was for cold weather. As the population moved to the sun belt i don't see fur coming back.
Accurding to The Times:
The fur industry had been shrinking for years. According to the Fur Free Alliance, global fur production is down 85 percent in the last decade.
And I didn't see any mention of Trump but a quick check indicates that neither Melania nor Ivanka have worn fur since 2016,
Further, the 14% increase year over year from last year, some sales included resale of expensive used furs - so inflation is camoflaging real sales.
Where have all the fur farms gone? Long time passing . . .
Quaestor: "You can't trust those ugly, noisy, spitting, bitting bastards -- they'll lie about anything."
Are we still talking about camels?
Couldn't help but notice that Lauryn Hill was embedded in a massive amount of fur at the SNL homecoming concert last week: https://www.facebook.com/according2hiphop2/photos/lauryn-hill-pulls-up-on-saturday-night-lives-50th-anniversary-celebration/1154876746031279/
Reaganesque exhuberance is bubbling up “organically”— I’m pulling out the electric rollers from the back of the cupboard.
A series of coincidences convinced 20th century Americans that each decade was going to have its own personality that differed from the one before and the one after.
That hasn't been true in this century, but changes like this are what decade watchers have been waiting for, possibly creating, and certainly promoting.
We could take a hint from Mark Zuckerberg and only wear firs from animals that we had personally killed. With a bow and arrow ... or a knife ... or in hand to hand combat ...
I’m pulling out the electric rollers from the back of the cupboard.
I don't know what this means. Is it referring to hair curlers? Is Big Hair coming back?
I'd be OK with that, if so. When I first met my wife and fell for her, shortly after Reagan's massive victory in 1984, her hairstyle rose a good three or four inches above her head.
I guess this is good to read. My grandmother's mink stole is hanging in the basement. I think she bought it in the 50s.
Its amazing when you watch old movies from the 30s/40s/50s how hard Hollywood was selling furs. One leading lady after another is drapped in an expensive furs, or is dreaming of having one.
For example, I saw some old movie a while ago, where the joke was that some creep was letting his dates where an expensive fur for a evening out, and then leave them and take back the fur in the next AM. This supposed to be funny. Oh well, times change.
Later, hollywood stopped pushing furs and then turned against it. Wonder why? Did all their old friends get out of the fur business?
Get some red paint! And a rent-a-mob! There's an outrage to be protested!
Many moons ago, I worked in the retail fur biz in Boston. The store was a standalone boutique (as opposed to being a “salon” in a department store), so it had the main street-level shop, a private showroom and floors above for the repair department and temporary storage. Our clients were quite wealthy and all very much catered to. One year on Black Friday, the store was picketed by a group PETA protesters, who all looked like they skipped the Thanksgiving turkey and trimmings. A woman walking into the store wearing a fur (I think it was beaver) was approached and blocked by the protesters. They threatened to throw red paint on her coat. She responded, quite forcefully, “Go ahead! It’s insured. I’ll just walk in the door and buy another one!” And she elbowed her way through.
Post a Comment
Comments older than 2 days are always moderated. Newer comments may be unmoderated, but are still subject to a spam filter and may take a few hours to get released. Thanks for your contributions and your patience.