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Freezing Temperatures in Chicago Spark Dramatic Rise in Online Fur Sales

Freezing Temperatures in Chicago Spark Dramatic Rise in Online Fur Sales

Highs in the Twin Cities have been below freezing every day since Nov. 10, an 11-day stretch. This rivals the longest November subfreezing streaks on record there. The high on Nov. 17 was only 15 degrees, which is colder than their climatologically coldest average highs in January (23 degrees).

According to the National Weather Service, Chicago tied the record for longest stretch of subfreezing daily high temperatures, with seven days, for the month of November and set a record for consecutive hours below freezing for November with 180 hours.

Other Cold Notables:

Joplin, Missouri set a record low for the month of November on Tuesday with a low temperature of 6 degrees.

Casper, Wyoming, dipped to -27 at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday night, shattering their all-time November record low of -21 on Nov. 23, 1985 (records date to 1939). The temperature stayed at -27 at midnight Thursday, making it the new record low for Nov. 13 as well. Previously, the soonest Casper plunged to -27 was on Dec. 5, 1972.

Denver’s high of 6 on Nov. 12 was the coldest daily high so early in the season. Only three other November days had daily high temperatures colder in Denver, dating to 1872. Early Thursday morning, Denver chalked up a bone-chilling -14 degrees, easily the coldest temperature so early in the season.

Furs remain the warmest material known to man. Stay safe this Winter: bundle up in a fur garment from Marc Kaufman Furs! We ship anywhere in the country, including those places hit hardest by this arctic surge.

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With over 2000 quality furs to choose from, and the option to design your own, Marc Kaufman Furs of NYC has the most extensive online fur selection in the World, the possibilities are limitless! Most of our fur garments are one of a kind. Each and every fur was hand crafted and carefully designed.

Mink is a great choice for a blend of style and weather-resistance.

Stunning Long Hooded Mink Jacket Now only $3995 on Clearance at Marc Kaufman Furs

You don’t need to wait for a Fur Sale to buy a fur, Marc Kaufman Furs always maintains the very best pricing. Get in touch today to hear more about the multiple layaway and financing options offered at Marc Kaufman Furs.

World renowned for our luxurious furs and craftsmanship, our fur coats are worn by socialites, celebrities, hip hop artists as well as people of all walks of life that want to be warm and look beautiful.

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White Rex Rabbit Cropped Sleeve Jacket with Fox Fur Collar, exclusively from Marc Kaufman Furs in NYC

Marc Kaufman Furs in New York City, NY ships your fur purchases and rentals to wherever you may be: Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan, Buffalo, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, California, Minnesota, Seattle, Washington, Philadelphia, Taos, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Atlanta, Georgia, Portland, Oregon, Park City, Utah, Idaho, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Montana, Aspen, Colorado, Missouri, Anchorage, Alaska, Moscow, Russia, London, UK, England, Seoul, South Korea, Geneva, Gstaad, Lausanne, Zurich, Switzerland, Germany, Paris, Chamonix, France, Austria, Italy, Dubai, UAE, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, China, Tokyo, Osaka, Japan, Toronto, Whistler, British Columbia, Quebec, Canada, Helsinki, Finland, Stockholm, Sweden, Copenhagen, Oslo, Norway, Melbourne, Sydney, Australia, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Singapore; to all 50 States, and just about anywhere else in the World! With over 2000 quality furs to choose from, and the option to design your own, Marc Kaufman Furs of NYC has the most extensive online fur selection in the World.

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Record-Breaking November Arctic Cold

Record-Breaking November Arctic Cold

Published Nov 21 2014

It’s official: Winter is here. Its time to take your furs out of the closet or purchase one (or more!) new pieces! With over 2000 quality furs to choose from, and the option to design your own, Marc Kaufman Furs of NYC has the most extensive online fur selection in the World, the possibilities are limitless! Most of our fur garments are one of a kind. Each and every fur was hand crafted and carefully designed.

There have been more than 400 record lows and record cool highs set, covering 43 states, since Sunday. With blocking high pressure aloft over eastern Alaska and northwest Canada, a direct pipeline of cold air came from Siberia to near the North Pole, then southward into Canada and the U.S., particularly the Plains and Midwest. According to the National Weather Service, Chicago tied the record for longest stretch of subfreezing daily high temperatures, with seven days, for the month of November and set a record for consecutive hours below freezing for November with 180 hours. 

Below is a European model forecast loop from last week depicting where the coldest air was expected to be this week.arctic-13nov14

Marc Kaufman Furs has a fabulous collection of quality furs on Clearance. Since our Clearance page is our most popular, we routinely list brand new one-of-a-kind samples for sale there. These furs can be as little as a day old.

Ever wanted to wear a fur garment to a special occasion but thought you couldn’t afford one? Now you can look and feel like a celebrity without breaking the bank with Marc Kaufman Furs’ Rent-A-Fur program. Renting a fur from Marc Kaufman Furs is fast and easy: we even ship fur rentals to wherever you may be!

Stunning Long Hooded Mink Jacket Now only $3995 on Clearance at Marc Kaufman Furs

You don’t need to wait for a Fur Sale to buy a fur, Marc Kaufman Furs always maintains the very best pricing. Get in touch today to hear more about the multiple layaway and financing options offered at Marc Kaufman Furs.

Stay safe this Winter: bundle up in a fur garment from Marc Kaufman Furs! We ship anywhere in the country, including those places hit hardest by this arctic surge.

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White Rex Rabbit Cropped Sleeve Jacket with Fox Fur Collar, exclusively from Marc Kaufman Furs in NYC

Marc Kaufman Furs in New York City, NY ships your fur purchases and rentals to wherever you may be: Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan, Buffalo, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, California, Minnesota, Seattle, Washington, Philadelphia, Taos, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Atlanta, Georgia, Portland, Oregon, Park City, Utah, Idaho, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Montana, Aspen, Colorado, Missouri, Anchorage, Alaska, Moscow, Russia, London, UK, England, Seoul, South Korea, Geneva, Gstaad, Lausanne, Zurich, Switzerland, Germany, Paris, Chamonix, France, Austria, Italy, Dubai, UAE, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, China, Tokyo, Osaka, Japan, Toronto, Whistler, British Columbia, Quebec, Canada, Helsinki, Finland, Stockholm, Sweden, Copenhagen, Oslo, Norway, Melbourne, Sydney, Australia, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Singapore; to all 50 States, and just about anywhere else in the World! With over 2000 quality furs to choose from, and the option to design your own, Marc Kaufman Furs of NYC has the most extensive online fur selection in the World.

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Rent a Fabulous Fur for your Winter Wedding

Rent a Fabulous Fur for your Winter Wedding

We love winter weddings! To keep our winter brides warm and looking festive for their wedding, we offer a variety of fur jackets, wraps, muffs and stoles for sale and rent.

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Brides don’t want to put a cloth coat on over a wedding gown. In fact, we can provide fabulous furs for the entire wedding party – the mothers, brides, grandmothers and aunts.

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Full length fox fur coat from Marc Kaufman Furs

In an age when one can rent a Mercedes or a date, fur rentals are still a rarity, according to Konnie Karopoulos, executive director of the Master Furriers Guild of America in New York, a national association of retail furriers. Few companies provide the service because of the risks: They are afraid customers will become attached to the furs and run off with them, Karopoulos said. At Marc Kaufman Furs, if you rent a fur and fall in love with it, we will apply the fur rental charge towards the purchase of the fur that you rented.

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The increased growth in rentals reflects an upward sales trend in the fur business, Karopoulos said. Fur is no longer just for warmth on the coldest days of the year, furs has moved into the hot “must have” fashion category and are worn from day to night and across all seasons.

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Rent a fabulous fur coat or fur garment from Marc Kaufman Furs for a special occasion, a scene in a movie, a music video, a wedding or a photo shoot for a magazine. We have a beautiful collection of unique designer furs for rent at every price range.

White Fox Shoulder Wrap from Marc Kaufman Furs

Most of our fur garments are one of a kind. Each and every fur was hand crafted and carefully designed. If you are interested in renting a fur, come in and see what kinds of furs we have in stock and what’s available for fur rental in your size. We have a huge inventory of furs for rent for you to choose from, in a wide range of styles and prices; you are guaranteed to find a piece for any occasion.

Baby Blue Fox Fur Jacket from Marc Kaufman Furs Sheared Ranch Mink Fur Coat with Silver Fox Trim

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White Rex Rabbit Cropped Sleeve Jacket with Fox Fur Collar, exclusively from Marc Kaufman Furs in NYC

Marc Kaufman Furs in New York City, NY ships your fur purchases and rentals to wherever you may be: Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan, Buffalo, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, California, Minnesota, Seattle, Washington, Philadelphia, Taos, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Atlanta, Georgia, Portland, Oregon, Park City, Utah, Idaho, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Montana, Aspen, Colorado, Missouri, Anchorage, Alaska, Moscow, Russia, London, UK, England, Seoul, South Korea, Geneva, Gstaad, Lausanne, Zurich, Switzerland, Germany, Paris, Chamonix, France, Austria, Italy, Dubai, UAE, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, China, Tokyo, Osaka, Japan, Toronto, Whistler, British Columbia, Quebec, Canada, Helsinki, Finland, Stockholm, Sweden, Copenhagen, Oslo, Norway, Melbourne, Sydney, Australia, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Singapore; to all 50 States, and just about anywhere else in the World! With over 2000 quality furs to choose from, and the option to design your own, Marc Kaufman Furs of NYC has the most extensive online fur selection in the World.

 

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Wearing Furs Fabulous Benefits the World

Benefits of Wearing Fur Coats, Jackets and Vests

Canadian Sable Fur Jacket 734 Description: Canadian Sable Fur Jacket

Canadian Sable Jacket 734

Not many people realize this fact, but there are a couple of advantages to wearing fur. Activists in the animal rights movement might strongly disagree, but wearing coats can be beneficial to humans and animals. Granted, this is not always the case; it is essential to give the practice of wearing animal skins the credit it deserves. The purpose of this article is to highlight some of the main benefits of wearing fur. Hopefully, we can answer the question of “is wearing fur that bad?”

It is a simple fact of life that all living things will eventually die. Turning an animal’s pelts into clothing for humans ensures that none of the animals biological material will not go to waste. A fur coat made from the deceased animal, its skin would go to waste. It is hard to argue that a jacket from the animal pelts has significant adverse effects, assuming the animal population hunted responsibly.

Black Fox Jacket Silver Fox Inserts

Black Fox Jacket Silver Fox Inserts

Extremely Effective Heat Retention

The Eskimos have recognized the effectiveness of wear fur and have employed this practice for centuries. Animal pelts retain heat, that is unmatched by any synthetic materials available today, despite advanced technology. Protection against extreme cold is necessary. A large fur coat is always the best option to stay warm.

Fur Just Looks Fabulous

Let’s face it; looking good is an essential part of being happy today. Being at the top of the food chain has its perks, not something we should feel wrong. Fur clothing benefits the fashion industry’s creative motors and helps boost the self-esteem of the over-privileged class of society.

Pullover Red Mink Jacket

Pullover Red Mink Jacket

We have a beautiful collection of unique designer furs for rent at every price range. Interested in renting a garment, come in and see what kinds of garments we carry in stock and available for rental in your size.

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Fur is Back in Fashion with a Vengeance

Fur is Back in Fashion with a Vengeance: Will You Embrace It?

by Nora Crotty


Two Tone Brown and Black Mink Coat Puffed Collar exclusively from Marc Kaufman Furs’ collectionSupporters call it “natural” and “sustainable.” Opposers say it’s cruel and inhumane. But whichever side you fall on, there’s no denying that fur had a major presence on the fall 2013 runways this past month, being hailed as one of the biggest trends for next season.

Golden Sable Coat

Golden Sable Coat

Striped, dyed, embossed, and manipulated, the sheer amount of real animal fur we saw this fashion month was more overwhelming than we remembered from seasons past. We scoured through every single photo of every single collection that walked this season and found that a startling 70% of the designers who showed during fashion month used fur in at least one look. Several collections, including those by Altuzarra, Marc Jacobs, and Louis Vuitton, incorporated fur into over 20 looks. Others still, like J.Mendel, Marni, and Giambattista Valli, used fur in more than 30.

And then there was Fendi. Karl Lagerfeld apparently had some fuzzy vision happening while designing the Italian label’s fall line: Every single look from the 40+ piece collection featured multiple instances of fur usage, including (but certainly not limited to) coats, handbags, sunglasses, shoes, and even mohawk-esque hair pieces made of dyed fox. Needless to say, there were zero PETA pie-ings reported.

So is it safe to say that fur has finally fallen back into favor? Wearing fur has always been a hot button issue. Once considered the most regal and luxurious of materials, the animal rights movement first brought attention to the alleged wrongdoings of the fur trade in the late 1970s. In that same vein, the Internet age has beckoned an onslaught of viral anti-fur videos showing the horrific living (and dying) conditions of innocent animals skinned alive for their pelts–inspiring a new generation to think anti-fur. Veganism, more prevalent than ever amongst health-freaks and animals lovers alike (see: Anne Hathaway), promotes a lifestyle completely devoid of eating–or wearing–anything that once had a face. Not to mention the city of West Hollywood, California’s historic ban on the selling of fur products, slated to go into effect this September.

White Mink Coat Full Length

White Mink Coat Full Length

According to Keith Kaplan, executive director of the Fur Information Council of America, the case against fur is due mostly to a lack of education–and the fashion world is at the forefront of changing those misconceptions. “Designers have done their homework,” he told us via email. “They have come to recognize that the fur industry is committed to the humane and responsible treatment of animals and that no industry is more highly regulated at local, national, and international levels.”

Dyed Green Silver Fox Fur Vest, exclusively from Marc Kaufman Furs in NYCKaplan went on to describe fur as an eco-friendly option, calling it a “natural, renewable, biodegradable resource”–and thus a smarter choice than synthetic fur, which he says is petroleum-based, non-renewable, and manufactured in such a manner that “releases harmful chemicals into the atmosphere.”

Furthermore, “fur has a unique and unparalleled richness and texture that even the best of faux cannot replicate,” says Kaplan–which may explain why Marc Jacobs chose to show almost cartoon-like, stuffed animal-looking stoles for fall, made of very real animal fur.

Of course Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour has made no secret of her penchant for the real stuff and is often credited with introducing it back into fashion. Countless verbal and physical attacks from anti-fur protesters (including a raccoon carcass-bombing during dinner) haven’t dissuaded the first lady of fashion from using it in her editorials since she began her rein in the late ’80s.

But were the fall runways a sign of the fashion industry going green, or something more sinister? PETA‘s Danielle Katz told us that fur-friendly designers, such as Karl Lagerfeld, “use dead animals for shock value” and that, as far as the general public is concerned, “fur remains as popular as a cold sore.”

royal blue mink coat

royal blue mink coat

Katz could be on the right track about the latter. After all, it was our shock at the prevalence of fur at shows like Lagerfeld’s Fendi that lead us to investigate fur’s current social standing in the first place. As for the public’s opinion, is the general populace really looking for a tube of Abreva big enough to wipe out the fur industry–or is the fashion industry simply responding to society’s fever for fur?

We consulted data polling site Gallup.com for the cold, hard, fur facts. Gallup’s most recent survey on the subject, conducted in May 2012, asked participants whether they considered wearing fur morally acceptable. Of the 1024 people included, a resounding 60% saw fur as morally acceptable–a 4% increase from the same poll taken one year earlier. However, in 2012, only 35% believed fur to be morally wrong–a 4% decrease from the 39% who were totally anti-fur in 2011.

Dyed Blue Silver Fox exclusively from Marc Kaufman Furs in NYCThere are of course, as with any poll, various factors at play here, including the age, education, and income of the participants. But if these numbers say anything, it’s that fur’s approval rating has only increased in the past year–and the fashion industry, per usual, is totally in tune.

But what say you? Will you be clamoring for real-fur everything next season and turn your cheek at your house pets’ third cousins, or would you rather save the animals but potentially upset Mother Nature in doing so? Can there ever be a middle-ground when it comes to fur in fashion? We want to hear what you think.

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Two Tone Brown Black Mink Fur Jacket 9944

Two Tone Brown Black Mink Fur Jacket 9944

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Red Fox Fur Stroller with Belt & Hood, exclusively from Marc Kaufman Furs in NYC

Marc Kaufman Furs in New York City, NY ships your fur purchases and rentals to wherever you may be: Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan, Buffalo, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, California, Minnesota, Seattle, Washington, Philadelphia, Taos, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Atlanta, Georgia, Portland, Oregon, Park City, Utah, Idaho, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Montana, Aspen, Colorado, Missouri, Anchorage, Alaska, Moscow, Russia, London, UK, England, Seoul, South Korea, Geneva, Gstaad, Lausanne, Zurich, Switzerland, Germany, Paris, Chamonix, France, Austria, Italy, Dubai, UAE, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, China, Tokyo, Osaka, Japan, Toronto, Whistler, British Columbia, Quebec, Canada, Helsinki, Finland, Stockholm, Sweden, Copenhagen, Oslo, Norway, Melbourne, Sydney, Australia, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Singapore; to all 50 States, and just about anywhere else in the World! With over 2000 quality furs to choose from, and the option to design your own, Marc Kaufman Furs of NYC has the most extensive online fur selection in the World.

 

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Red Fox Vest

Best Luxury Gift

Fur is no longer just for warmth on the coldest of days; furs have moved into the hot “must-have” fashion category and are worn from day to night and across all seasons. The best luxury gift can be purchased at Marc Kaufman Furs of NY.

World-renowned for our luxurious furs and craftsmanship, our fur coats worn by socialites, celebrities, hip hop artists, and people of all walks of life who want to be warm and look beautiful.

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Since 1870 the Marc Kaufman Fur Family has been manufacturing, designing, repairing, altering, and providing cold storage and fur cleaning for fur stores and individuals. With over 100 years of fur expertise, “Marc Kaufman Furs,” “A name you could trust with all of your fur needs.”
“Experience Does Matter”

World-renowned for our luxurious furs and craftsmanship, our fur coats worn by socialites, celebrities, hip hop artists, and just ordinary people that want to be warm and look beautiful. When you purchase a Marc Kaufman Furs, you know that you are getting quality, reliability, and excellent customer care and service.

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Marc Kaufman Furs has the complete selection of the most beautiful fashion furs. Collection of full-length mink coats, mink strollers, mink jackets, fox coats, fox jackets, sable coats, and sable strollers.

For the softest in furs, we have the most beautiful Mink coats, Mink jackets, Chinchilla coats, Chinchilla jackets, Lynx coats, Lynx jackets, Sable coats, Sable Jackets and many other types of fur jackets and fur coats.

A full range of fur colors including mahogany mink, black mink, and whiskey mink. All furs at desirable prices. We can also customize a design to your taste.

Special Orders is our Specialty. We can take a collar from one coat, a sleeve treatment from another jacket, a color from another fur, It”s all your Choice.

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