Mink fur - beautiful, warm, waterproof, shiny, with a smooth pile of brown, chestnut and brown color variations. With proper dressing, proper care and careful storage, a mink coat can last at least twenty years.
Mink for making fur coats is grown all over the globe, but above all in Russia, the USA, Canada, China, Poland, Holland, the Baltic States and the Scandinavian countries.
At the zoo farms of these countries, as a rule, the same species is bred - American mink. Animals differ slightly among themselves, only depending on the breeding variety of a particular animal farm. She got her name from what was originally found in the forests of North America.
In the wild, a wild commercial mink can be met very rarely; no more than one hundred thousand skins of this animal are mined in a year. The forest species is much smaller than the farm one, the body length of the wild animal does not exceed 35 centimeters, while the length of their breeding "aviary" counterparts starts from half a meter.
The fur of mink living in natural conditions on the banks of rivers and lakes and feeding on frogs, fish and crayfish is extremely unstable in its quality: unlike farm mink fur it is not too fluffy, thick and shiny, it has a rather high pile, in some places wild fur has a long spine, while in others it is almost the same as the underfur.
The color of such fur is only grayish-brownish, and not a very even underfur, as a rule, much lighter than the outer hairs.
Wild animal skins often have all kinds of defects due to damage caused by life in the wild and bites of all kinds of parasites, which makes them unsuitable for creating products, and because of the numerous marriage, such fur is not particularly valued.
Products from wild mink are almost crowded out on the market, since their production is not very profitable.Although these skins are much cheaper, but they are significantly smaller in size, this greatly increases their consumption.
To sew at least one fur coat from a wild mink, it will take tremendous efforts, and you may even have to break the law, since in many countries this animal is listed in the Red Book.
Sometimes poachers catch animals, but fur is allowed only to make collars. On an industrial scale, wild mink is caught, harvested and sold only in Canada.
Thus, if a mink coat is suspiciously cheap, it is either a Chinese non-factory and illegal product, or it is sewn from low-quality or poorly crafted skins, or sellers simply try to foist a buyer under the guise of a wild mink a product made from completely different fur, for example, dyed ferret, khanorik or groundhog.
It can be easily distinguished by its more prickly and stiff coat, such furry rustles to the touch, and the undercoat is thinner than the mink.
Sometimes trade workers are cunning, calling the common groundhog "wild field (steppe) mink."
Sometimes, under the guise of a wild mink, fur coats are sewn from the fur of young nutria, who died before the age of three months. In order to avoid losses, Chinese entrepreneurs who are not clean at hand put their skins into production.
Such fur coats are characterized by a low core pile, and the fur feels not quite natural, rather artificial.
Unscrupulous sellers can also issue an ordinary rabbit for a fur coat from wild plucked mink, although it’s simple to distinguish it simply by feeling.
Sewing fur coats from wild fur in the modern world of fashion has become unprofitable, it has become almost impossible to meet and buy a real product from wild mink even at a very high price.
But if you are nevertheless lucky to find real high-quality wild mink coats on sale, we advise you to opt for chic elongated classic models that reveal the beauty and luxury of fur in the best possible way, emphasize the status of their owners, never go out of fashion and serve faith and true for many years.
