Beautiful hair accessories from the Rat
The fur of animals such as foxes, rabbits, sheep or very commonly used to make clothing or accessories supporting performances. But, now there are new animals that entered in the list of ‘ingredients’ accessories, namely mouse. Fur mice turned out to be processed into a beautiful fur scarves.
Type of rats used accessory materials are not rats at random. Rats are rats that live in brackish water areas, called nutria. Approximately 60 cm in length and weighing kg. Nutria rat fur scarf was featured in the collection of Autumn / Winter 2010, designer home Alabama, United States, Billy Reid.
Reid use the mouse to fur collar, hat and coat at night. The fashion house J Mendel also issued a collection of patchwork coat with fur, and looks very luxurious. Then, Oscar De La Renta make cuts on the edge of the fur of rats and combined with precious gems.
Rat hair accessory trend was pioneered by Cree McCree, an artist from New Orleans, United States. He took the initiative to make the fur nutria, becomes ethically accessory ingredients.
“I wanted to show how the nutria can be used with outside biasan and highlights how important it is to protect existing wetlands,” McRee said, as quoted from the Times of India.
He also sells gear nutria as earrings at a price of U.S. $ 30 (about USD 270 thousand) and a necklace with a price of U.S. $ 60-75 (about USD 540 thousand)