Anyone can make his or her outfit classy and elegant by adding a fox fur coat.
Fox fur is silky, fluffy, and long. This helps for both trimmings and garments. Fox fur can be used to make jackets and coats, coat trimming, muffs, scarves, and fur capes. From the Northern United States and Canada, the best quality of red fox fur comes.
Very dense and long fur is produced from there. The rail of the red fox is very long and as compared to its body, the tail is half of it.
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How Much Does a Fox Fur Coat Cost?
The cost of a fox fur coat depends upon the fur type and fur quality. As compared to blue fox pelts, the silver fox pelts and shadow blue fox pelts are more expensive in general. So the coat made from shadow blue fox is expensive. $800 can be the starting price of a fox coat and it can go up to $2000 and more.
Some facts about the cost of a fox coat
Generally, mink coats are more expensive as compared to fox coats. Because to make a fox coat, it needed 4 to 8 pelts, on the other hand, the mink coat needed 30 to 35 pelts.
Therefore, as compared to processing of mink coat, the fox coat processing needs less technique level.
The quality mostly affects the cost. EU fox coats are more expensive than the fox coats that China manufactures.
The coats which are made from whole pelts are also expensive as compared to the coats which are made from more than one piece which are left out from the previous production.
Composition of a fox fur coat
Generally, there are three layers present in a fox fur coat and each layer consists of different types of hairs.
Down hairs
This is also called underfur and this is the inner or bottom layer. This layer has no sharp points or straight portions.
Instead, it is composed of curly and wavy hairs. The most numerous part of a fox coat is the down hair level.
These hairs are the shortest and flat. Next to the skin, there is dry air-insulated by the down hair principle function.
Awn hair
There is a gap between the different properties of the guard and down hairs. The awn hair can take the main part to bridge the gap.
The beginning growth of awn hair is the same as the growth of guard hair,but when the growth comes to its half of the full length, it slows down and becomes wavy and thin.
In thermoregulation, the awn hair’s proximal part is assisted as down hair and the shed water process can be done by the distal part like guard hair.
Guard hair
The outer or top layer of a fox coat is the guard hair level. The softer down layers are protected by the guard hair which has straight shafts. Generally, the guard hairs are coarse and longer.
Leather parts of a fox coat
Between the Fur layers, some leather parts are sewed in the fox fur coats nowadays.
This technique is used To make the fox coat more elegant and less puffy, but in the past, the fox coats were so heavy and that was ok that time.
However, modern generation People demand less fluffy and more dainty fox coats because of the different fashion trends.
Fox fur types
The fox industry offers natural fox pelts of great variety. In Finland, there is an Auction called SAGA fur held and that is the largest market of fox pelts.
You can find the Superior furs with the finest section there.
And the source of that fur is Europe and it is strictly regulated. There are huge types of fox furs used in coats in the market.
Some are – blue fox, shadow blue fox, platinum gold fox, blue frost fox, cross fox, fire gold fox, sapphire frost fox, fawn light fox, and the list does not end here. Blue fox fur is considered the core of fox pelt and the most common type.
Quality of fox fur coat
It is so easy to misjudge a fox coat because of its fluffy composition and in the market, there are a lot of qualities of fox fur coats available. You should search the labels of the origin pelts of the particular fox coat which you want to buy.
The pelts manufacturer or origin country should be Nafa, Kopenhagen, or Saga.
You can touch and feel the real material quality of the fox coat. You have to keep in your mind that the composition and softness of the fox fur coat differ from the different types of the fox. For example, the silver fox has not-so-soft and long hair. But the blue fox has shorter and softer hair than the silver fox.
There would be a use of whole fox pelt for making the best quality fox coat by the manufacturer. However, there is a different effect and lower quality of a fox coat if smaller pieces made the coat of pelts.
Conclusion
If you want to add a fox fur coat to your wardrobe, you have to understand some points. First, if your fox coat sheds in the first few uses, then it is normal. The fur shed is temporary and will be stopped after some use. A small amount of shed is ok and you don’t have to worry about it. Second, to avoid the shade while wearing, you can shake it well for the first 3-4 times before wearing it. Third, if you don’t want to invest so much money, $200 to $400 is the average cost of a medium-quality fox coat. If you take proper care, your fox coat can last up to 40 to 50 years or more.
For the long-lasting of a fox, the coat keeps the pockets clean. Even during the winter, you have to keep it at the right temperature to avoid damage. You have to give the coat to a professional furrier for its cleaning and don’t wash a real fox coat on your own at home by using hard detergents. It will damage the coat permanently.
