#fur lining coat

[raudskegg]

But like legit though, Hussars’ pelisses are some of the most beautiful coats ever in history, like is this not the equivalence of WEARING ART? The embroidery and fur and hyper-complicate button system all combined makes me giddy and shit! Plz plz plz let these re-enter mainstream fashion after like 150+ years plz!

[forestfoxworld]

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[professorpski]

Keeping Warm in the 17th Century: The Fur-lined Cape

As it turns cold where I live, we break out the fuzzy sweaters, stock up on tea and soup, and turn on the furnaces. But once upon a time you couldn’t turn on the furnace and had to rely on fireplaces which, as anyone with one knows, aren’t all that good at toasting up a room. What to do?

If you were wealthy, one of the answers was fur. This portrait from 1638 is of one Pieter Jacobsz, a man who made his money by brewing beer and became a political leader in Haarlem in the Netherlands. It’s a fine painting, and the wall label talks about its painter Frans Hals and “the vigor of the brushstrokes, especially in the face.” Me, I was thinking of the collar--as in, how do they do that? how much starch does that take?--and the fur lining of the cape. Wealthy men wore their fur on the inside up through the early 20th Century as it is cozier. It is also a kind of quiet spending of money for a man who doesn’t feel he has to prove anything.

I have made two winter coats poly microfiber on the outside and lined with fake fur (and blogged them both), and they are the only thing that seems to work around the wind tunnel created around the Notre Dame football stadium. If you are trying to stay warm this winter, a fur-lined coat will help and the fake furs now available are wonderfully soft.