Vintage furs from the 80’s and 90’s

The prosperity of the 1980's brought the attitude that excess is good, and what better way to convey wealth and prosperity than to don an elegant fur coat. The fur bomber jacket made it to the height of popularity in the 1980's with the younger crowd. They wanted a fur coat that could be worn everyday. Puffy sleeves and shoulder pads were in every fashionable piece of clothing in the 80's. This same fate didn't escape fur coats. Trench coats made of fur became an 80's fashion staple. Many fur coats rode out a couple of decades in the back of closets. The backlash on fur and decline of its common place in fashion in the late 1980's to the early 1990's led to a trend to go back to the basics.

The Inuit and Dede tribes of Northern Canada sold fur pelts and collaborated with furriers to make a more natural design that tied in a traditional way of life with fashion to try to deflect from the previous reputation of excess that fur had been given, now giving it a more natural and earthy appeal. The fur coats that did make it out of closets in the 1990's often times had a more body hugging tailored effect to them. Minimalism was the key, and the furs of this period were often very drastically sheared and basic looking. The classic minimalist look of 1990’s fur coats has actually made them a desirable lasting piece of high fashion vintage wear. Toward the end of the 1990's, designers got more daring with styles of fur coats by adding more exotic looking furs, and brilliant new colors into the mix.