Barbara Streisand in fur? Yes? No? Maybe?

[FurLoverinFL]

Can't tell from the pic - what do our experts think?

 

http://apnews.excite.com/image/20060608/PEOPLE_BARBRA_STREISAND.sff_NYET113_20060608111957.html?date=20060608&docid=D8I49G981

 

FLinFL

[Guest]

Dies Donna Karan make fur clothing?

Thats all babs wears 99% of the time according to her interviews.

[White Fox]

Maybe it is just me but to me the head is too big for the body. Just a copy and paste!

[ReFur]

Knit Rex Rabbit or Knit Beaver, I'd bet.

[AKcoyote]

Definately knit, possibly dyed Rex.

[Guest]

I'd agree.

Also Donna Karan does do fur...or did a couple of seasons ago anyway.

 

Also Babs has been in lots of movies whre she wears fur.

[Joe]

I was actually down at Flemington Furs the first time I saw this picture; it was shown to me by my friend Christina, one of their senior furriers. She told me that it was probably knit sheared beaver, a style popularized by the designer Paula Lishman. Christina knits with fur too, but she's more of a genius at color-degrade dying processes and making sheared feel like chinchilla. Anyway (you can tell I'm jonesing for a visit to FF)...the coat that Babs wears in the picture is most definitely double sided. I remember seeing a few more pictures of her in different sheared-knit fur coats as well, but I'll have to check Gettyimages or Corbis to be sure. You should too...it's a shame we can't directly link images in those sites.

 

But the softness of double-sided sheared knit fur...mmmmm. Something to go to sleep dreaming about when I'm off on another night away from home...

 

J.

[Guest]

Remember who invented this technique folks...its a Dene Indian traditional craft. Go to Dene fur clouds site www.ek-o.net .

[ReFur]

I can't tell you how soft knitted fur is. Plus, as Joe explains, it has the double-sided advantage.

 

Your are right Joe, it feels like Chinchilla. I wish there was another sensation that I could explain that could compare to this softness.

 

Rex Rabbit is one of the most under appreciated furs out there. Another is New Zealand Opossum, which is a GREAT fur!

 

This is an example of the pretties one I have ever found. It actually is a Knit Fox. It is sold. So, I can link to it.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=9308836512&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

[RonGav]

For the record, you old-timers will no doubt recall that Barbra Streisand was, and probably still is, into furs BIG TIME.

 

When she had just gained popularity in the sixties, the was a big LIFE magazine spread on her and her love of furs. She was a big inspiration for me in those days.. God love her for that...