新型貂皮大衣，以前不能穿现在能穿.docVIP

貂皮大衣：保护动物而不能穿？？?? 2015-02-03 16:42:27|??分类：?english 阅读|字号?订阅 A couple of months ago I?inherited some items that had once belonged to my mother我继承了一些曾今属于我母亲的东西?. Most of these boxes?invoked poignant 深刻的，鲜活的 joy.?But one?produced产生?a moral dilemma但是其中一个箱子确让我陷入了道德上两难的境地.? I found a collection of fur?garments服装?, wrapped in plastic, that my mother had inherited from her mother. This included afabulous?难以置信的，极好的，美妙的?floor-length垂至地板的?mink貂皮?coat其中包括意见极赞的及地貂皮大衣?of the sort that?heiresses 女继承人once commonly wore around New York or Geneva就是过去纽约或者日内瓦的女继承人常穿的那种, and wealthy women still sport in Moscow or Davos.? ?Should I wear that coat??Toss掷硬币决定?it away? Just sell it on eBay? Twenty years ago my answer would have been clear:?I would have conducted a?ritual 仪式，宗教的仪式?burning of the mink while?enveloped笼罩，包围?in a?smug 自鸣得意?glow of political correctness我会举行一个小仪式，烧掉这件貂皮大衣，沉浸在政治正确带来的强烈自得之中. I started my adult life as?a tie-dye-wearing anthropology student 喜欢穿扎染衣服的人类学生?and?back then the animal rights movement was running such?a slick光滑的，聪明的，熟练的，巧妙地 anti-fur campaign?that mink seemed?taboo禁忌?to westerners of my age. 那时候动物权利运动发起的反皮草运动展开的如此成功，以至于貂皮似乎成了当时西方年轻人的禁忌Who can forget those?ghastly 可怕的 posters海报?of?slaughtered屠杀?seals? Orthe shots of?fur-clad?穿着皮衣的 ladies being?doused浇洒上?in red paint in the streets by angry protesters?或者大街上穿皮草的女性被愤怒的抗议者泼红色油漆 In those days,?sporting炫耀，给人看 ?fur?in public seemed like an act of deliberate?provocation 挑衅在那个时代，在公开场合穿皮草这种行为本身似乎就是一种故意挑衅—?even before you?factored?把。。因素包括进去 in the issues ofprivilege 特权?and wealth. 更何况它还没有炫耀特权和财富之嫌 Indeed, fur was so?controversial有争议的??that I had forgotten my mother even had a mink coat because she barely wore it. But today, my attitudes to fur — like those of many western consumers —?have become less black and white不再是那么非黑即白.?Or?sable and cream“紫貂”和“白貂”, perhaps. That is partly due to experience: having lived in Russia I now realise?that fur is extraordinarily effective at combating 打击，与。。战斗 extreme cold. But it is al