Wow! Those are really awesome! (And what a way to show off your new figure again too, hehe).
I would totally get a pair if I were living in such a cold climate too. But luckily our winters down here aren’t THAT cold. (phew at them being not ‘that’ cold).
During the recent winter market in town there was someone selling coats, jackets and boots made from seal skin. EU may ban stuff, but I guess it doesn’t reach “the boondocks” all that fast…
Indigo
Nice pants and who is that wearing them?
Johanna
Hey Clare –
do you know, how does/will the EU treat Greenland/Denmark on this? Is that where the traditional hunt exception comes in? I could not get over the incredibly stylish, beautiful sealskin clothing I saw in boutiques in Nuuk (and, while I couldn’t afford any of it, did find myself feeling a bit smug that people from the USA wistfully fingered it and said, but I’m not allowed…)
Thanks Kara.
Leah Oqallak was the seamstress Michael.
Thanks Melodie. They are very warm. Trying them on inside for the photo I was cooking.
Nice to see some common sense out there allmycke.
Thanks Indigo, and that would be me.
Johanna. Greenland opted out of the EU a number of years ago, so the rules don’t apply there. The ban effects their imports to Europe however. There is an exemption for aboriginal harvested seal, but it is unclear as to what the actual regulations involve.
Very nice!
A little known fact is that the phrase “seal skin ban” also translates roughly as “ignorant and grossly misinformed” in some Eastern European languages.
🙂
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They are really nice!
Gorgeous! Who made them?
Wow! Those are really awesome! (And what a way to show off your new figure again too, hehe).
I would totally get a pair if I were living in such a cold climate too. But luckily our winters down here aren’t THAT cold. (phew at them being not ‘that’ cold).
During the recent winter market in town there was someone selling coats, jackets and boots made from seal skin. EU may ban stuff, but I guess it doesn’t reach “the boondocks” all that fast…
Nice pants and who is that wearing them?
Hey Clare –
do you know, how does/will the EU treat Greenland/Denmark on this? Is that where the traditional hunt exception comes in? I could not get over the incredibly stylish, beautiful sealskin clothing I saw in boutiques in Nuuk (and, while I couldn’t afford any of it, did find myself feeling a bit smug that people from the USA wistfully fingered it and said, but I’m not allowed…)
Thanks Kara.
Leah Oqallak was the seamstress Michael.
Thanks Melodie. They are very warm. Trying them on inside for the photo I was cooking.
Nice to see some common sense out there allmycke.
Thanks Indigo, and that would be me.
Johanna. Greenland opted out of the EU a number of years ago, so the rules don’t apply there. The ban effects their imports to Europe however. There is an exemption for aboriginal harvested seal, but it is unclear as to what the actual regulations involve.
Very nice!
A little known fact is that the phrase “seal skin ban” also translates roughly as “ignorant and grossly misinformed” in some Eastern European languages.
🙂
You should have got a pair when you were here Darcy.