Your a Fake, Baby... (and the real fur option)

Still love the song "Fake""by Alexander O'Neil and now I really can be a "Fake" Baby, with my new shaggy fur coat!

Snowy Stylista had told me about a great faux fur number she had seen in TK Maxx by Gharani Strok, with an original retail price of £179 but selling for £60.  It was love at first sight but sadly they didn't have her size so she intended to go back a few days later to see if any more had come back in stock.  Whilst there and seeing that they did have my size, she text me through a picture and I responded with "yes, yes, yes" completely forgetting that I am on a shopping embargo until the January Sales, having had Claudia's 18th Birthday 4 weeks ago and Little Mans 10th, earlier this week!  It was so sweet of her to think of me, I find friends in general wouldn't do that, I really couldn't say "no" could I?

My jacket gives more than a little "nod" to the Anna Sui number pictured below, so if you are looking for the "Glam Factor" when it comes to your winter outerwear, then a shaggy faux fur number can easily take you from day to evening, eliminating the need for more than one new coat this season.
Whatever colour you choose, they transform Skinny Jeans and Classic Flat Boots for coffee with the girls or lunchtime drinks and are surprisingly warm and cosy even on the coldest of days (I wore mine one day last week and couldn't wait to get it off, but this week its a different story!). 
Team with your Little Black Dress and Louboutins  for after work cocktails or Christmas Partywear Glamour.

Anna Sui Faux Fur Coat £725 at net-a-porter

Faux Fur Jacket £120 from French Connection

My "real" Fur yearning has also been taken care of recently with a beautiful gift from a fellow blogger.  When teawithonesugarplease was having her winter wardrobe sort out, she asked me if I wanted her real fur jacket.  Initially, knowing that TWOSP is a beautiful teeny tiny lady, I suggested that the coat would be suitable for my two size 8 daughters but when it arrived (or when I managed to get to the post office to collect it - finally) and my eldest daughter saw it and tried it on - I thought "excellent it will fit me as well", so we are all going to share it, the skinny kids will wear it belted and it looks great styled that way.
This vintage jacket is of remarkable quality and does not smell like a "wet dog" as my ebay find did.  TWOSP would have made a nice bit of money selling this on ebay, but she gave it to me, the kindness of some people is truly touching, I just love my blogsphere friends!

Juicy Couture Rabbit Fur Hooded Jacket, £250 from net-a-porter


So I truly have all my coat/jacket options taken care of this season and will soon need to buy a new wardrobe just to accomodate my outerwear when you take into account I bought a Puffa Coat for the school run and got gifted an Isabella Oliver Cape back in February!
Meanwhile, the essential Pea Coat  I have been lusting after for the last couple of years, doesn't seem so essential anymore and goes on the back burner once again and can wait till next year or the January Sales.

Have you gone for the faux or real fur "glam" option this season?

Note: No animals were killed in the making of this post and don't bother leaving me a nasty comment if you eat meat and wear leather, I don't condone the killing of animals for their fur alone, but have no problem with wearing vintage fur or fur/skin from animals that would be killed for meat.