SC - Re: AEthelmearc's Coronation Feast

Wed Apr 4 08:30:33 PDT 2001

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In a message dated 4/4/01 7:45:10 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
ekoogler at chesapeake.net writes:

> Or the young woman who was visiting my house who was horrified that I have a
> VERY OLD coyote fur collar on my cloak...I picked it up at a yard sale, and 
> it
> obviously had seen several uses before I acquired it.  She also informed me 
> that
> she wouldn't eat meat because that was cruel to animals as well.  I then 
> asked
> her where she thought her leather shoes, bag and belt came from!  She 
> allowed as
> how she hadn't thought about that!
> 
> Kiri
> 

Kiri, I do the same thing with my furs that I buy and restructure for SCA 
use. I buy the old minks, etc., at yard sales, thrift stores, etc. And then 
rip them apart. It makes me feel better that nothing *currently* has given up 
its little life for the project. Also, there was a great post that went 
around many moons ago that said something similar about leather, and 
feathers, and so on. It brought up animal testing for meds, cosmetics; 
petroleum products used to make clothes that were dangerous to animal 
habitats due to drilling, etc. It ended with a statement that said 
approximately, "If you aren't wearing linen or silk clothes, shoes made of 
wood and reed, makeup from herbs you ground yourself, etc., then you have no 
reason to accost anyone as your view of 'saving the little animals' is narrow 
and skewed...."  

And has anyone else but me noticed the pendulum swinging back the other way 
with designers now and the clothing industry in general? They used to develop 
fake furs that were *obviously fake* (thinking blue leopard here). Then they 
went to furs that were wonderful knock offs of the real thing. Now, they are 
actually including *real* fur again in their lines. I keep thinking that 
maybe it is like the cigar smoking that came back into fashion. I get the 
feeling that people are getting tired of being PC and being told *how* to be 
PC; sorta the revenge-enjoyment statement to the world (I'll buy fur because 
I *want* fur and nothing you say is going to change my mind, so there).

Lars

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<HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ff80c0">In a message dated 4/4/01 7:45:10 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
 ekoogler at chesapeake.net writes:
 
 
 <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Or the young woman who was visiting my house who was horrified that I have a
 VERY OLD coyote fur collar on my cloak...I picked it up at a yard sale, and 
 it
 obviously had seen several uses before I acquired it.  She also informed me 
 that
 she wouldn't eat meat because that was cruel to animals as well.  I then 
 asked
 her where she thought her leather shoes, bag and belt came from!  She 
 allowed as
 how she hadn't thought about that!
 
 Kiri
 </BLOCKQUOTE>
 
 Kiri, I do the same thing with my furs that I buy and restructure for SCA 
 use. I buy the old minks, etc., at yard sales, thrift stores, etc. And then 
 rip them apart. It makes me feel better that nothing *currently* has given up 
 its little life for the project. Also, there was a great post that went 
 around many moons ago that said something similar about leather, and 
 feathers, and so on. It brought up animal testing for meds, cosmetics; 
 petroleum products used to make clothes that were dangerous to animal 
 habitats due to drilling, etc. It ended with a statement that said 
 approximately, "If you aren't wearing linen or silk clothes, shoes made of 
 wood and reed, makeup from herbs you ground yourself, etc., then you have no 
 reason to accost anyone as your view of 'saving the little animals' is narrow 
 and skewed...."  
 
 And has anyone else but me noticed the pendulum swinging back the other way 
 with designers now and the clothing industry in general? They used to develop 
 fake furs that were *obviously fake* (thinking blue leopard here). Then they 
 went to furs that were wonderful knock offs of the real thing. Now, they are 
 actually including *real* fur again in their lines. I keep thinking that 
 maybe it is like the cigar smoking that came back into fashion. I get the 
 feeling that people are getting tired of being PC and being told *how* to be 
 PC; sorta the revenge-enjoyment statement to the world (I'll buy fur because 
 I *want* fur and nothing you say is going to change my mind, so there).
 
 Lars</HTML>

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