poll: the sound and the fur-y

hey, it's friday. good job, day-jobbers, doctors, lawyers, and the like. you did it.

it's too late to play the FP-DG, plus, i wonder if we technically need that at other times that aren't fridays in your life. i'll throw one at you mid-week and see how it goes.

it's fashion week here in chicago, and romantic flair is in for the ladies. lace, blazers, long flowy hair, beads, natural colors, rich prints.

another thing that's in? fur.
UGH!
i've always been repelled by fur coats (and animal prints, for that matter). my mom had a detachable fur collar on a coat when i was in high school, and i made her take it off. i couldn't have been madder at the time, and looking back, my poor momz felt so bad. what a teenage a-hole move - but at the time, i felt a lot of conviction towards the matter. when i was a vegetarian, these things made sense, but now i acknowledge that i eat meat and that's senseless too... blahblah. i can't keep up, but want to make as many kind decisions as i can while acknowledging that the food chain is real and ok for most.

in addition, i don't know that i think i like the way the fur coat looks. i mean, it looks good on things that have fur, but not on old ladies with old money and pedigrees.

but now, as i'm seeing all these items crop up, and faux fur is out there in droves, i kinda like it. i think it's not due to trends, but nearly all due to the italian princess in me wanting to slum around in a shabby-chic badass bronx coat; newer obsession with the sopranos, just being in jersey, and thinking about my relatives has brought this out in me. also, a fran drescher-esque voice is fun to imitate (until your throat bleeds), and i can do that in said coat.

so, america, i leave it to you: do you think i can pull this off?
is it too much? or delightfully too much?
it would be a short-coat, like this.
it wouldn't be an everyday, it'd just be a sometimes.
and, i promise to act as trashy as possible while wearing it.
hoops, nails, and catfights - a defran guarantee...