Clap Trap

Men! Yes, for once I am talking to you! Hey! No, I didn't think I was that bothered about your fashion either! Ha! Whodathunk?!

But seriously, just in case you had mistaken this site for one that rates the attractiveness of the fairer sex and had only skimmed over the post below while desperately trying to find the "hotties" let me reiterate my point that was a mere aside below:

You do not look cute in a trapper hat. Honestly. I'm not trying to, ahem, trap you> Look at the dude up there. He's a model and he looks like a corpse with a dead wolf on his head. Look in his eyes, he is dying inside. It is not a good look. Even if it is warm and prevents your head from freezing off. Seriously, I don't care about your basic rights to warmth and comfort I just care about my eyes and the fact that you are fundamentally offending my aesthetic ideals.

These are my reasons:

It is like wearing furry blinkers and I assume that as some trendy young hipster type who probably lives in Dalston or Hackney you will no doubt be mown down by one of your brethren on their fixie as you can't see their stealthy approach as you cross the road.

You do you not live in the arctic tundra. I know it might feel like it, but a couple of days of snow does not make you a hardened trapper who must wear fur to survive.

You look like a tit.

But hey, nice seeing you here! I promise I'm not always so mean. I'm sure all your other clothes are lovely and that you've got a great personality... Don't hold it against me, coz you know I'm right really, don't you? Yes, yes, that's ok, you let it all out, yes, peer pressure is a terrible thing, isn't it? It wasn't your fault...

Fur Real?

So, when did fur become ok?

I don't know if it was the same when you were at school, but admitting that you were considering wearing fur was tantamount to social death, applicable immediately. It just wasn't the done thing. And we were all horrified by the death of little animals for the sake of clothes. We shopped in Body Shop and appreciated Peta campaigns and felt political. Under no circumstance did we consider fur. No one did except the matrons of Park Avenue and people in Italian Vogue, and we scorned them.

When I was a student I happened upon a delicious white fur hat in a vintage shop. It was terribly Audrey Hepburn and terribly tiny. To the chagrin of a couple of other shoppers it fit my bijoux little head perfectly. And it was awfully soft and lovely. And it was vintage and I wasn't having an affect on the current fur trade. It didn't really count, did it?

But now fur is becoming infinitely more popular and people aren't flinching about it is the same way. It doesn't have the same stigma. The popularity of fake fur takes the attention off whether or not we are cool with the real stuff. And while it is both warm and glamourous and part of me wants to get involved I'm just not sure I am quite ready to throw away all my schoolgirl idealism and jump atop the furry bandwagon.

Fur-real?

Christ on a bike! Those furry studded glads are terrible. And then the furry pencil case reference just makes me feel all icky inside. I don't think even Raquel in her animal pelt bikini could carry off those bad boys. And if she can't do it, then it just can't be done. I mean, look at her!!

Fur you say? On an ACTUAL shoe?

I am boring myself with searching on and on for the perfect summer shoe. I have a good glad, a virginal, sparkling white converse and hunter wellingtons. That's all I need for a British summer. Why must I persist in torturing myself and trying to spend money.

Whilst I was looking though I saw these. I am a major fan of an animal print as you know...and a spot of studding. But then I zoomed and reallied that these are actually FURRY animal print glads. Which is a step too far I think. A coat can have fur, a sweater can be soft to the touch, but a shoe? I don't like it. And this one in particular reminds me of those really manky 'animal' print pencil cases that were all the rage in the early 90's. And that isn't a quality I would necessarily look for in like, a shoe.