Real Fur / Faux Fur
By suzzy3
@suzzy3 (8342)
March 30, 2016 3:30pm CST
Certain retailers including John Lewis have been selling real fur without realising. The garments have been coming in from Chinese suppliers.
On discovering this John Lewis and other retailers have stopped dealing with the suppliers.
The supposedly faux fur was examined by trading standards as suspicions arose. It was discovered real animal fur was being used. Rabbit, dog and various other animals had died to make these coats.
Apparently if you pull the fur apart if the fur is real you will see skin with veins. It makes my skin crawl. Even reliable shops with a " no real fur"policy can be fooled. So watch your fur trims.
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10 responses
@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
31 Mar 16
pretty horrible for those thinking their faux is real fake and therefore humane
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@marguicha (215481)
• Chile
30 Mar 16
I´m absolutly against killing animals for their fur. But I often wonder what happens to the coats made with furs before we all had banned the killing
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@JamesHxstatic (29242)
• Eugene, Oregon
30 Mar 16
What a shock for people who bought that merchandise and are against real fur for clothing. I am glad they caught it.
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@bobbyjoe143 (1287)
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30 Mar 16
I personally don't own any fur trimmed clothing, not really something I've ever been into.
It is quite shocking however that these major clothing shops can be fooled into buying without checking their stock, surely if it is as simple as pulling the fur aside and checking for veins, then it should have been spotted by their own quality control?
@flapiz (22403)
• United Kingdom
2 Apr 16
That's horrible. I'm pretty sure the retailers are horrified as well and it may have impact on their customers. As they claim to be selling faux and it turns out it's real. It means they failed to examine their products. But at least they did something fast about it.
I will never wear real fur!
