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JUNE 2005
British fur seller quits
LONDON––”Selfridges
has reviewed its policy on fur and will no longer be selling any fur products,”
the upscale department store chain announced in mid-May 2005.
“Selfridges closed its fur department
in 1990 but continued to sell items such as rabbit fur-trimmed gloves
and clothes,” wrote social affairs correspondent Maxine Frith of
The Independent.
The strategy of claiming to sell only
fur produced as a byproduct of the meat industry worked for 15 years,
until awareness spread that much “rabbit fur” coming into
Europe from China might actually be dog or cat fur.
Selfridges, with stores in London, Glasgow, Birmingham, and Manchester, was among the last major British retailers to sell fur goods.