Only a few years ago, seeing scores of women strolling around New York City in real animal fur coats would have seemed unimaginable.
Fur has been out of fashion for so long that it’s been decades since Vogue’s Anna Wintour was regularly seen wearing it. (In one of the last instances, in 2005, she was pelted with a tofu pie by anti-fur protestors outside a Paris fashion show.)
But walk around Manhattan – or most cities with a wintry chill – and you may wonder whether you’ve fallen through some kind of sartorial portal to the 1950s, when lush, bracelet-sleeve furs were a symbol of old-world glamour and post-war wealth, or the 1980s, when an ankle-length mink was de rigueur for the peacocking…