Critter id please

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vintagemeggie

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Hello everyone,

I have a few questions about a coat.

50s? It has a union label - ILGUW AFL-CIO, National Recovery Board, Coat & Suit Industry.

The fur collar is real, but I have no idea what kind of critter.

How to describe the coat - it looks like mini-shag all over it.

How to take a pic where the coat detail & the fur show up at the same time? I either get the coat detail but the fur is blurred, or I get the fur but the coat is a black blob.

Thanks in advance,
Karen:)

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Different fabric! It's a tough one to describe. That pic helps a lot! Maybe call it "long pile" or something like that. Mini-fringe ???

No help at all on the fur...sorry!
 
Wild (no pun intended!) guess here - could it be oppossum? There's just something about it that seems un-mink-like...

Obviously, I'm no expert but I thought I'd take a stab at it :)

Carolyn
 
My first thought on the fur was ermine.

I think the term given to the fabric treatment is 'eyelash'. Eyelash what though? Faille? wool?

Very unique. I have seen a late 50s jacket with this fabric but never a full coat, and I imagine it was fairly pricey in it's time.

Sue
 
Ermine? Ya don't see many of them around here. :D Actually, I don't even know what it is...I'll go check out the fur section on the home page.

Eyelash - I like that. Thanks Sue.

Karen :)
 
Wow, Leigh - you're so right!

Leo's title of his painting conjures such a different image; I looked at it and thought Lady Cuddling Weasel (!!)

Your Philistine Friend,
Carolyn :)
 
<a href="http://www.vintagefashionguild.org/furs/ermine.html">VFG Fur Resource Ermine</a>

Summer ermine is brown, in winter their coat is white. I really do think this is ermine.

Sue
 
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