Fake fur

Promotion photo from You're My Everything featuring Anne Baxter wearing a fake fur coat
Woman wearing a hood lined with fake fur
Two women wearing fake furs

Fake fur, also called faux fur, is a pile fabric engineered to have the appearance and warmth of fur. Fake fur can be made from a variety of materials, including polyester, nylon, or acrylic.

First introduced in 1929, fake furs were initially composed of hair from the South American alpaca. The ensuing decades saw substantial improvements in their quality, particularly in the 1940s, thanks to significant advances in textile manufacturing. By the mid-1950s, a transformative development in fake furs occurred when alpaca hair was replaced with acrylic polymers, leading to the creation of the synthetic fur we recognize today.[1]

The promotion of fake furs by animal rights and animal welfare organizations has contributed to its increasing popularity as an animal-friendly alternative to traditional fur clothing.[2]

  1. ^ "How fake fur is made". www.madehow.com. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
  2. ^ "Definition from the Textile and Apparel Industries". Retrieved 2010-01-25.