Pierre from HSUS sent word of a new report from his group about the whole fake fake fur thing.

Wow, "fake fake fur" made me think about that old Will Smith "Wild Wild West" song, so I just went and listened to it, substituting "Fake Fake Fur" into the lyrics as needed. It makes pretty much the same amount of sense. Anyway.

So the fake fake fur: as it turns out, in the USA, the clothing people only have to label the fur in their garments if the fur's value is more than $150. A bunny rabbit might be priceless to you or me, but to the fashion world, it's apparently worth considerably less, since not only are companies putting real fur trim on their products, they're actually labeling it as fake.

The list of retailers goes way beyond Crazy Otto's Discount Fake Fur Emporium too - Bloomingdale's, Neimann Marcus, Sak's Fifth Avenue and others are names in the HSUS report, which, incidentally, can be found here, with an in-depth PDF report here.

I understand fake hot dogs, and I can even get into the whole fake leather thing to a degree, but I don't get fake fur. Even when it's really fake, it's too real to me.