Furry or high fashion?
15 September 2010 | 5 comments
No fandom is off limits to my studies, but I don’t know as much about furries as I’d like to. I still have yet to watch American Furry, a documentary on the fandom. However, I haven’t missed the fact that they’re currently at the top of the high fashion food chain. Below are actual photos of haute couture for William Rast and Chanel:
That’s a tail on the left and a full-on fursuit on the right.
Let’s play a game. Some of the pictures below are products designed for furries, the rest are high fashion fall must-haves. Bet you can’t guess which are which! Answers are at the bottom of the post.
Answers: One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven.
Bwahaha! Oh, fashion. I guess you have to try everything once!
I am flabbergasted that 6 is sold from a legitimate english fashion shop–or that anyone would wear the thing on the right!
Spencer, you need to watch this video of a guy actually wearing the fursuit around NYC this summer! http://fabgabblog.com/2010/08/chanel-fur-suit/ It’s especially weird when he hangs out with Elmo.
Haha, wow. Yeah, you wouldn’t catch me dead in one of those things…
@Spencer but would we catch you alive in one. =P
Hows it going, as going to Anime USA this year?
I actually could not tell which ones were for furries-they all looked like they came from legitimate places, except maybe the pink furry boots. I don’t know much about the furry culture, just everyone tells me to steer clear from it, and don’t wear anything animal like, such as tails. Someone thought I was a furry last year at Katsucon, but I told them I was just cosplaying a Moogle, so I suppose they were more clueless than I as to what a furry was.
I feel like wearing furry things would be itchy and uncomfortable. I’d maybe wear the ears for Halloween or something. I will also die laughing if someone actually buys and wears the antler headband.