Rex is one of the most amazing types of fur from all, presented today in the market. This is a French royal rabbit, soft, fluffy, tender and unusually warm. But its main value is that Rex successfully imitates more valuable and expensive kinds of furs. So, modern technologies of fur processing allow to get a fur coat from rex under chinchilla, mink, beaver.
Rabbits of this breed were withdrawn almost a hundred years ago in Germany, and for more than fifty years living reindeer animals were banned from exporting from the country - careful and cautious Germans did not want to lose the monopoly on making fur coats from rabbit rex. It is said that the Soviet geneticist Serebrovsky carried a pair of thoroughbred rabbits with contraband, crossing their rex parents with another breed, not banned to export, but having recessive genes, which allowed a few generations to get from the exported mestizos almost purebred royal rex. The coat of these animals has a velvety texture and a pleasant smoky shade, the length of the villi reaches 1.5-2 cm, which makes it similar to the skin of a more expensive and complex beast - chinchilla. Often, buyers who do not know the niceties, sell under the guise of a fur coat from chinchilla Rex. To avoid this, remember that the geometry of the fur of these animals is very different: the skin of the chinchilla is close to a rectangular shape, the rabbit skin resembles a square, and in general it is somewhat larger in size. In addition, the villi in the chinchilla are more tender, and the mezdra (the layer of subcutaneous tissue) is thinner.
How to choose a fur coat from rex?
If you deliberately decided to buy a fur coat from fur rex, in the store, pay attention to the following parameters: Skin quality. Examine necessarily in daylight. Make sure that the fur is missing deep grooves, wrinkles, pile shines, and the substrate has not lost its plasticity.
Wear resistance. To make sure that the fur of the cropped rabbit Rex does not begin to molt after the first winter season, slide with a wet finger in the direction of growth of the villi and against it. If at least one villus has stuck to the finger, it is better to refrain from buying - most likely, the manufacturing technology or the conditions for storing the fur product were violated.
Match your size. Make sure that the rabbit fur coat sits on you like a poured, as a small baggy face threatens to eventually turn into a formless something - the rex does not hold its own shape well.
Very original, fresh and elegant looks a fur coat from rex with fox fur. Luxurious long fur of a black-brown fox, used for collars and cuffs, favorably emphasizes the tenderness and subtlety of a light gray or white fur coat from a rex. In addition, the fen is more frost-resistant than the royal rabbit, so this collar serves not only decorative, but also warming purposes.
How to care for a fur coat?
In order for your furs to serve you faithfully and not for one season, you need to know some subtleties of caring for them. So, if the rabbit fur coat is slightly wrinkled, it is necessary to slightly moisten the pile, comb it in the direction of growth and leave the fur coat to dry at room temperature. To give the fur an attractive shine will help glycerin or a weak vinegar solution. That the white fur coat does not turn yellow, it should be stored in a blue linen bag or wrapped in blue paper and must be separate from all other things, especially from painted fur. Also, it is undesirable to store the product in a folded or folded form - it should be free to hang.
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