Calling all Cannucks - need help dating Inuvik 2-Pc Parka

[seven****]

Hi! This is a beautiful, red 2Pc parka with heavy duty 2-way zippers on both the outer shell and parka itself made by the Inuvik Sewing Centre in the Canadian Arctic. The parka is a la Hudson Bay blanket. Both pieces have garment labels stating "exclusive of trim". The fur looks like wolf, but my research tells me that they usually use Wolverine because it doesn't freeze in subarctic temperatures.
Does anyone know what Wolverine looks like?
My intuition tells me mid to late 70's, but...I'm hoping somebody will know more about these parkas than I do.

Thanks!!!

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[Patentleathershoes]

Here's a photo of a wolverine. They are in the same family I believe as the badger.

http://www.bishops.k12.nf.ca/science/envsci/endangered/tfry/Wolverine.html

http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/cohesive_strategy/integration/wildlife/wolverine.htm

I don't think its wolverine just because wolverines are usually gray and black with maybe a little white depending on the type.
Unless it is very young wolverine that are born more brownish. (but then again, there could be a different species i don't know about)

usually when i see "exclusive of trim" it usually goes hand and had with the trim being manmade but i have been known to be wrong. (and might be as I am not a fur person) I had a coat in the 70s with faker than fake trim around the hood.

Chris

 

[Jonathan]

The Inuit usually use indigenous furs and the Arctic is a bit north for most wolves, other than arctic wolves. I am not sure of the northern boundaries of wolverines but they do inhabit the tundra regions of Labrador and the Yukon. I believe wolverine is coarser and not as soft as wolf.

Date wise, these have been made for export in the arctic since the 1960s. They fell from favour in the 1980s when a more fashionable Parka style was popular in Canada called 'La Parka' that was designed by Linda Lundstrom in Toronto. So its somewhere between the mid 1960s and the mid 1980s.

 

[seven****]

Thanks for the links, Chris! The "exclusive of trim" is with regards to the man-made material, but the trim on the hood is real fur and, now that I've seen what looks like a very tempermental wolverine, I'm almost certain it's wolf and I'll research more on them and Arctic wolves.

Thanks for the history lesson on Parkas, Jonathan! I think I'll be safe saying post mid 70's because of the garment care symbols that are incorporated into the garment label (and the symbols are quite large). What do you think?

Thanks again!!!!