Ruby Red Hi-Low Full Length Mink Fur Coat

Description

The hem is the point of this coat: it finishes at mid-calf in front and sweeps to the floor behind, so it moves as a full-length coat and wears as a shorter one. Ruby Red mink runs in vertical pelts down the body, split by narrow leather strips, with a zip closing to a rounded fur collar. The cuffs are deep fur banded in leather, and the same banding and border finish the hem.

Hi-low is a cut, not a length: the front is raised so the coat clears the leg when you walk, while the back keeps the line of a full-length garment. It only works if the sweep is weighted, which is what the leather banding and the fur border at the hem are doing — without them the back rides up and the shape collapses. Ruby red is a clear dyed red rather than a wine shade, and it takes an even pelt to carry it: any difference in depth between skins shows immediately in a colour this bright.

Made and altered in our own workroom in the New York fur district, where Marc Kaufman Furs has worked since 1870. Every piece is fitted to you before it leaves us.