A little while back I got the hankering to make a fur coat. Initially
I wanted to buy one but as usual I created quite a specific list of
requirements that meant I couldn’t find just the right one. So, I took
myself down to Berwick Street in central London and went to one of my
favourite fabric shops. An here, almost immediately, I found the most
luxe fabric I had ever come across. So thick and sumptuous and looked a
lot like a wolf fur (NOT REAL OF COURSE). The technology behind fake fur
fabrics these days is so good it would be my first choice every time.
Anyway, I got home and started to freestyle together my coat… What I
had not anticipated was the extreme fluff that came away as you cut and
sew. Every inch of my flat was covered in a thick fur dust. The
thickness of the material was quite difficult to work with so the shape
of the overall coat was dominated by this, I would have maybe liked
skinnier arms.
In the end I was really happy with it. It’s a totally gorgeous coat
that makes me feel uber glamorous (if a little over the top) and most
importantly WARM and snugly. When I go out in the winter time the one
thing I cannot be is cold but this usually means covering up with fifty
thousand layers until there are just a pair of eyes poking out of a
tangled mass of knits and fleece and furs… Problem now solved!
