Monday, February 23, 2009
Fur your consideration...
I am super thankful and fortunate to have recently spent a week in New York (last week) catching up with family and best friends. As I have been visiting NYC with some regularity since age 4, I have gotten most of the touristy activities out of the way and can now just concentrate on spending time with people in their favorite neighborhood haunts. This trip I spent a lot of time in Brooklyn with friends, which was an awesome but slightly surreal experience of a place I've long associated with my Grandma, who lived there for years.
While traipsing through Williamsburg, fueled by cupcakes and coffee, my friend James and I found ourselves seized by an unusual fashion mission ... the search for the perfect vintage fur coat. Maybe it was the familiar, rejuvenating cold weather getting into my blood, or the memory of a photo of my Grandma in her twenties, standing on her Brooklyn sidewalk wearing a monkey-fur coat, but I must have tried on at least twenty coats that afternoon.
I know wearing fur is a contentious issue among many a fashionista. I would never buy a new fur coat, but if it's vintage, the proverbial damage has already been done, right? And there is something so glamorous about pulling a fur coat on over your t-shirt and jeans; it's an instant fabulizer. James aptly decided that white or light grey furs are a bit too Russian-snow-princess, and that anything with legs or heads attached were a tad Miss Havisham-ish, creepy. The closest we came to perfection was a mid-length warm brown coat with long sleeves and a small collar. I couldn't justify a fur purchase that day (I fear the wrath of SF animal rights activists, plus its simply not cold enough here to warrant that kind of gear), but someday I hope to add one to my wardrobe!
While I was in New York I also saw former Sunhee Moon girl CAROLINE on the subway -- a random but fortuitous encounter as I was making my way out to the airport! Made me miss that girl so much! Caroline we love you! Keep on doing your thing there in NYC, come back and visit too!
- Casey
While traipsing through Williamsburg, fueled by cupcakes and coffee, my friend James and I found ourselves seized by an unusual fashion mission ... the search for the perfect vintage fur coat. Maybe it was the familiar, rejuvenating cold weather getting into my blood, or the memory of a photo of my Grandma in her twenties, standing on her Brooklyn sidewalk wearing a monkey-fur coat, but I must have tried on at least twenty coats that afternoon.
I know wearing fur is a contentious issue among many a fashionista. I would never buy a new fur coat, but if it's vintage, the proverbial damage has already been done, right? And there is something so glamorous about pulling a fur coat on over your t-shirt and jeans; it's an instant fabulizer. James aptly decided that white or light grey furs are a bit too Russian-snow-princess, and that anything with legs or heads attached were a tad Miss Havisham-ish, creepy. The closest we came to perfection was a mid-length warm brown coat with long sleeves and a small collar. I couldn't justify a fur purchase that day (I fear the wrath of SF animal rights activists, plus its simply not cold enough here to warrant that kind of gear), but someday I hope to add one to my wardrobe!
While I was in New York I also saw former Sunhee Moon girl CAROLINE on the subway -- a random but fortuitous encounter as I was making my way out to the airport! Made me miss that girl so much! Caroline we love you! Keep on doing your thing there in NYC, come back and visit too!
- Casey
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