ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned primarily with official fur businesses of the kind that had their own premises - headed notepaper emblazoned with line drawings either of unrealistically tall and slender women wearing full-length coats or of smiling fur animals - and quite, often their own websites too. However, people from a range of connections to fur seemed to consider the unofficial trading of fur an important aspect of 'what fur is'. Prestigious work is desirable both as a means of obtaining money and as an end in itself, a social position. The desire to work can be motivated by people with whom one had only the weakest of ties Or who were strangers. Young people whose forebears had worked with fur, as they put it, 'long ago' linked their own working opportunities to: capital and stories garnered by their great-grandparents.
