Faux Fur and Snowboarding?

[cbernard92]

Hey it may be faux and have weird colors, but it's still fur, and it's breaking into the world of snowboarding! (And Skiing, well extreme skiing I guess)

http://www.backcountry.com/store/SPD0655/Spyder-Old-Fudd-Jacket-Mens.html?CMP_ID=SH_FRO001&CMP_SKU=SPD0655&mv_pc=r126

 

http://www.backcountry.com/store/FRM0185/Forum-Slapaho-Reversible-Jacket-Mens.html

[Worker 11811]

There may be some times when faux is preferable, such as when it can easily get damaged or dirty. Snowboarding is probably one of those times. It'd be a shame to see a good fur get ruined.

 

But I would allow it only on ONE CONDITION!

 

When you're done snowboarding and head toward the lodge, you must take off the fake fur and put on a real one!

 

 

I always say that fake fur makes a good "gateway drug!"

[Guest]

Why not wear real fur snowboarding?

 

 

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[Worker 11811]

Because, unlike skiing, snowboarders do a lot more stunts and, often at a more dangerous level. Even freestyle/mogul skiers don't do the kind of stunts that snowboarders do in the halfpipe.

 

Snowboarding is essentially a risk-taking sport. How far are you willing to go to pull off that perfect reverse 720º spin? Falling down is part of the game. It is even considered to be a credibility builder up to a point. One who tries more difficult stunts is more likely to fall.

 

If one was snowboarding for style, just to look good and socialize on the slope but didn't intend to do more than the basic jumps and tricks you'd be okay. That's not so risky. I wouldn't have trouble with wearing fur in situations like that. But if I was out for doing tricks, I wouldn't want to ruin a good fur.

 

I guess I should have qualified my first answer. Eh?

[cbernard92]

yeah plus a 200 dollar snowboarding jacket with faux fur is expensive enough for me, so thats why I wouldn't get a real fur... yet!!!

also I do snowboard pretty roughly.... have managed to keep my bones safe, but I have slammed pretty hard!

[Worker 11811]

Sponsored any good "yard sales" yet?

 

Like I said, if you're just chillin' it, there's no reason you couldn't wear a nice fur while snowboarding. But if you're going out to shred up the slope you are bound to take a spill or two. A real fur probably wouldn't stand up to more than one or two bailouts.

 

I say it's best to wear a fake one when you're going for broke and wear a real one for style.

[cbernard92]

so....

any donations so I can follow your rule of wearing a real one afterwords???

 

haha just kidding, anyways I'll be sure to check out all the vintage/second hand stores for some cheap real furs this fall and winter, I saw a sealskin stroller at this antique store, fit like a glove but it was a bit dirty, and there was a huge hole in the front!.... it was only 30 bucks though.... anyways I passed! I kind of want to save up for this overland jacket

 

http://www.overland.com/

 

Edit: Shortened link. - Worker 11811

[Worker 11811]

That bomber looks nice!

 

I know what it's like to live on a tight budget. Best advice I have on that is to put $25.00 per week (or whatever amount you can afford) away in a cookie jar somewhere and save it up to buy the things you want. If you can put $25/wk into that cookie jar, you will be saving at a rate of $100 per month! If you can keep it up, you will have enough money to buy that Overland bomber before snow season arrives! (In three months.)

 

That is exactly how I saved up to buy my wife's fur coat. I stashed $20-$25 per week in a coffee can until I had enough. It took me a little over a year and a half to save up the cash but her coat was a lot more expensive than your shearling, plus I had a few financial emergencies that I had to dip into my stash for.

 

I have shopped for furs at a couple of second hand stores and you can find some nice things if you look. But the problem is that you really have to shop with a jaundiced eye. Most of the furs you find in second hand stores are very old and probably haven't been taken care of very well. And because people have a tendency to believe furs are a lot more valuable than they really are, the prices can be unrealistic. Fortunately, the owners of most second hand stores that I know of are willing to haggle over price. They don't want a lot of "useless junk" clogging up their stores.

 

If you are willing to go in and really look over the furs and check them for problems and if you are willing to bargain for price you can get a good deal at a second hand store. You just have to be willing to work for it.

 

I still take the occasional trip to the local "Next to New" store but, for my money, I think I'd rather save up and get something I know will last.

 

On the other hand, that sealskin jacket you looked at might make the perfect "donor" for some other fur project. You might be able to get somebody to take it apart and make it into a liner for a nice bomber jacket.