{"id":47868,"date":"2026-04-27T20:16:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=47868"},"modified":"2026-04-27T20:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:16:36","slug":"fur-is-back-in-fashion-as-vintage-trend-drives-coat-sales-but-is-it-misguided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=47868","title":{"rendered":"Fur is back in fashion as vintage trend drives coat sales, but is it misguided?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/04\/27\/e09cb755-9e45-4750-83ea-20a437353b62_96a5b968.jpg?itok=sA8wjtTW&amp;v=1777276555\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Laura Jacobs thought she would never wear animal fur, having witnessed years of protests over its use in clothing \u2013 until suddenly she started spotting it all over New York.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Jacobs fished out the long mink her grandmother left her years ago and took it to a Manhattan furrier to give it a second act.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Fur \u201cwas stigmatised for so long\u201d, Jacobs says, posing before a full-length mirror and assessing a potential crop.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">But the return of <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">real fur<\/span> \u201cfits with everything that\u2019s going on with recycling and bringing back vintage\u201d, she says.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI never would have bought a fur coat,\u201d Jacobs says, adding that the thought of \u201ckilling animals like that\u201d gave her pause. But \u201cthis felt like I was recycling it\u201d, she says.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">New York is thawing out after a particularly cruel winter that has included debates over fur\u2019s revival as influencers push the look and retail sites report a jump in searches for vintage pieces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/fashion-beauty\/article\/3351512\/fur-back-fashion-vintage-trend-drives-coat-sales-it-misguided?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Jacobs thought she would never wear animal fur, having witnessed years of protests over its use in clothing \u2013 until suddenly she started spotting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[21479,4545,354,21478,21480,945,7400,18970],"class_list":["post-47868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-coat","tag-drives","tag-fashion","tag-fur","tag-misguided","tag-sales","tag-trend","tag-vintage","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}