Re: [h-cost] What kind of fur would you use for this?

[Land of Oz]

I had a thought about this -- brain working overnight, you know -- and 
wanted to add to the list of possibilities.  Domestic rabbits are the source 
of all nearly tanned pelts in the US.  Showshoe hares are very different 
from domestic rabbits - they are larger and they turn white in winter like 
the ermine.  This may be a more historically accurate source of white fur 
for anyone but the highest nobility. If a garment was lined completely with 
white fur similar to that portrait, it would make more sense to use the 
large skins of a hare. I'd suspect that ermine has a much shorter length of 
hair than shown in that portrait.  Even shorter than mink - but someone who 
has compared both would know better. The only ermine I've ever seen was road 
kill.

Denise B
Iowa 

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