My father was a fur dresser. His father was also and got him into that line of work. Both my grand-mother and mother had beautiful, black, warm seal skin coats. As a youngster I used to love running my fingers through the fur.
Just sayin’...};^)
Fwiw, SEAL SKIN coats/jackets were not for ladies only “back in the day”. = I once had what was called a “Gentleman’s Stroller”, in the WWI era-the 1920s, of seal in the 1970-1980s.
(VERY warm, on FRIGID Winter days in Northern VA.)
When the fur got won enough from “Sunday wear” & started showing its age, I started wearing it with jeans/boots.
I lost it to a pick-up burglar, who broke out the back window on my locked truck to get it. = The VASP looked & looked for somebody wearing a sealskin stroller W/O success.
(I think that I was the only man in Alexandria that had a seal coat. At least I never saw another one in town.)
Yours, TMN78247