Sable in Action

If I remember correctly there were couple of sables that featured.

There was also some fabulous furs in Casino with Sharon Stone but I don't think sable.
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Sharon Stone wore chinchilla in that film and fox I think.


If I remember correctly there were couple of sables that featured.

There was also some fabulous furs in Casino with Sharon Stone but I don't think sable.
 
OK ladies, I'm having very serious second thoughts on the sable jacket! :thinking: I love the coat, it's not about the coat itself, but I don't know if it will fit into my casual life style. I'm very casual overall (rarely wear dresses and skirts) and I feel the sable is so extravagant and 'fancy', I don't know if sable is the right choice for me. I see all the gorgeous Russian models in their sables, but I don't have a life like them or dress like them. The coat is mine if I want it, it's been paid for but I don't have to take it when it comes in on Thursday. It's a gorgeous coat, but I don't want to get something so expensive and barely wear it!

I don't know if I should choose a less extravagant looking fur, such as mink? I'd still want the shorter jacket length to go with my casual look. What do you ladies think?
I know this is a VERY old thread, but I'm going through that NOW! It's so gorgeous- I saw a photo of someone's vintage capelet and now I'm dying to have one too!!! I'm casual mainly, and have other things I'd wear otherwise, so this is exactly my question- we live in the city and use mass transit all the time; I really hate worrying about ppl smashing into me with coffee/drinks/sharp objects etc...
I'd love to see what you all ended up with! :nuts:
 
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Sables are dense warm fur and very fluffy unless someone lives in the Arctic, up a high mountain or continental inland, the heat generated will be hard to stand.

From my obsessive scrutiny of sable watching, ladies who buy huge, long sables thinking the more sable the better think they look like the first pic, but end up looking like the second.
:lol::lol::lol:@papertiger , this is ALWAYS how I feel!!! :lol: How does one eyeball a fur and know it WON'T fit like that?! Are you an internet-fur-shopper? I'm afraid of these very-fluffy ones for this reason. :wtf: Do you have to be a rail for these to work?!

I just don't want to join the club of lumberjack -bear ladies running around in their ginormous coats!!! Not that they don't look amazing.

(@KittieKelly this is exactly why I'm terrified of sizing up!!! Reminds me of when my father would hoard things for me to 'grow into'- I still have one FF coat I wore to the mailbox downstairs today as my housecoat, which is LUDICROUSLY BIG, which he thought I'd 'grow into'... and here I am 25 yrs later...:lol::lol::lol:)
 
:lol::lol::lol:@papertiger , this is ALWAYS how I feel!!! :lol: How does one eyeball a fur and know it WON'T fit like that?! Are you an internet-fur-shopper? I'm afraid of these very-fluffy ones for this reason. :wtf: Do you have to be a rail for these to work?!

I just don't want to join the club of lumberjack -bear ladies running around in their ginormous coats!!! Not that they don't look amazing.

(@KittieKelly this is exactly why I'm terrified of sizing up!!! Reminds me of when my father would hoard things for me to 'grow into'- I still have one FF coat I wore to the mailbox downstairs today as my housecoat, which is LUDICROUSLY BIG, which he thought I'd 'grow into'... and here I am 25 yrs later...:lol::lol::lol:)

No. It's really important to try furs on. A good furrier can cut most furs to flatter. It also matters how you style types of fur. My sable is a jacket and it looks great dressed up and sexy (OK, me here, so sexier not super-sexy) with a pencil skirt or column trous/pants, for evening over a LBD or slim long gown. I wouldn't wear it over voluminous dress or full skirt. I have a fox 'chubby' that basically I have to wear a mini with or skinny jeans otherwise I look like a bear. No way would I ever get away with a chinchilla, maybe only as a bolero. At the end of the day mink is always going to be one of the most wearable, versatile furs but that doesn't take away that the right sable on the right body can look every inch magnificent.