Yes, people either did it directly if they lived near the fur storage companies, or they would do so through a local drycleaner who would have them delivered to a fur storage company.
You’re right - then a few decades later in one of the early liberal violent tantrum movements, women wearing minks would have their coats spray painted with red paint while they were wearing them. Commie influenced ‘protests’ played out by democrat ‘youth’ spraying while wearing expensive leather shoes...