Ripley Vintage fair

[fuzzyedges]

Just some from the vintage fair today

 

 

 

 

 

 

And lastly a fox stole resting

 

[NannyFerret]

I like the first three. They are so dynamic, but I can't understand people wanting to wear a fox fur.

There's nothing wrong with your shot, and you have taken and presented it well. I just disagree with foxes being killed for fashion.

[fuzzyedges]

I just disagree with foxes being killed for fashion

 

I have to agree with you in this day and age we should be more compassionate to  livestock

 

BUT you must remember to portray the 40's you have to have fur

These furs have been dead for over 70 years and there is no sign that they are promoting the killing of foxs today to wear as stoles

I do meet people wearing leather shoes or shoes glued with horse derived products and are not vegitarians that are appalled at the furs

It does smack of double standards and a not well thought out argument

I do try to educate them not to eat animals but they seem to think I am a loony

Thou shalt not wear a fox skin but thou shalt eat a mac donalds as they are only cows arnt they

[NannyFerret]

I'm not a vegetarian, but I do disagree  with the inhumane way that some of them are kept or slaughtered.
Humans are carnivores the way some animals are and the leather used would be wasted if shoes weren't made from it.
Foxes aren't killed for food though and their furs are used as a status symbol.
Don't get me wrong, Your picture is really good and I can see why you got it.  I just think that people who wear them could buy good fakes these days instead.

Anyway, My intention wasn't to spoil you thread, It's my personal thoughts. I don't expect everyone else to feel the same.

By the way, I love the lady in the colourful dress shot, and the portrait one.

[Leon]

like them all but I love no3

[fuzzyedges]

I just think that people who wear them could buy good fakes these days instead.

 

Not in 1940's style and if you could they would be expensive and cheaply made

Those who wish to have status from fur dont usually pick fox but then they normally dont have taste or style either just access to money

 

I look at it  a bit like ivory pre 47 okay post 47 not for sale legally (in this country)

 

We would no more buy 2013 fur than fly but in our search for original 40's clothing furs of that era are acceptable, as they were then

[NannyFerret]

It still makes me sad that the animals were originally killed for fashion and slung around someone's neck. Even animals deserve dignity after death.
It's the morality of it as well as the cruelty, and even though fox hunting is banned it is still going on in this country.
There's nothing that we can do about the past as you said, the fur is very old, but we can do something about the humane treatment of animals in the future,

Too many animals are skinned alive, treated cruelly or kept in terrible conditions, especially on the fur farms. 
Sorry, I'll get off my soapbox now.

[Phil]

I like the slight desaturation in the bg of the first 2, really makes the main subject stand out

[Korky]

A very nice set - I fully agree with Phil re the desaturation, it works brilliantly well.

 

Number 4 cheered me up no end - great to know the ancient pastime of ferret strangling is alive and well on the wrong side of the Pennines!

 

Korky

[NannyFerret]

Now don't set me off about people wearing Fitch fur.

Ferrets are best dancing around and getting up to their antics,

I love my ferrets with their little warm bodies inside of their fur coats thanks!