“Fursuits are furry couture – high art furry fashion”. A great fashion news article from Racked.
by Patch O'Furr
It’s a belief demonstrated with skill by Jill, the highly demanded maker at Jillcostumes. Her quote appears in The Fursuit of Happiness: High Fashion in Furry Fandom – an article from July 2015 at Racked (a style and beauty industry news site owned by Vox Media).
The author is Sydney Parker, a journalist who previously wrote about furries for Splitsider, a news site about the comedy industry. Her previous piece was about CollegeHumor’s Furry Force and my interview with it’s writer. I loved helping to put Furry feedback in the story to show a good relationship.
When Fred Patten told me that Sydney was doing the fashion article, it made me want to send feedback again. (I’m just a suiter, not a maker, but Street Fursuiting is my favorite thing.) I was happy to hear that some info on Dogpatch Press made helpful reference, like the record top fursuit price. Most of what I sent didn’t make it in because the finished piece was so long and well researched. So, here’s the full thing as a bonus.