Fur Coats Can No Longer be Sold in Los Angeles

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When I was a young woman in my 30s living in Dallas, Texas, my husband bought me a beautiful, luxurious mink coat with a fox collar. I wore it often in Dallas ... to theater performances, special events, and church. Occasionally, in especially cold weather, I would even wear the coat to the grocery store or to run similar errands. Fur coats were well accepted in Dallas in the 1980s and 1990s and it was common to see women of all ages wearing them. When we moved to California in 2000, however, I discovered that I rarely had a reason to put it on. Not only is the weather normally too mild to justify wearing a heavy coat, but furs are not socially acceptable here. I believe I have worn it twice in the last 18 years ... both times on winter trips to Las Vegas. I have not taken it on trips where we had to fly in the winter, simply because it is too bulky to take on a plane. Now, the Los Angeles City Council has taken the extra step of making it illegal to sell fur coats in the city. Although I do not live in Los Angeles, but in Orange County which is south of LA, I will not be surprised to see this law spread to other, nearby cities. I fully support that decision. I actually do not want to wear my fur coat ever again, although I am not quite sure what to do with it. I hate the thought that cute little minks, like the one in the photo, were killed to make my coat. Do you wear fur? How do you feel about it?