History Main / LiveMinkCoat

** In an episode, Usagi uses the Disguise Pen to put herself in fancy clothes for sneaking in a posh reception... and she wears a disgruntled Luna around her neck as a fur stole.
** In the opening sequence for the ''S'' movie, Minako tries on several outfits in a retail shop. The last one is a super-revealing dress topped with a full length fur coat, and she's also wearing a fastidiated Artemis as a stole.

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A SisterTrope to ItsFakeFurItsFine (in averting the implications of real fur), FeatherBoaConstrictor (wearing a snake similarly), GardenGarment (wearing plants that avoid withering), HeadPet.

* ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' went through loads of character designs in its DevelopmentHell, one even giving Elsa a [[http://bemusedlybespectacled.tumblr.com/post/69772064494/visual-development-work-for-frozen-part-2 coat of live ermines]].

* A number of trainers show such costumes made of ferrets, often with a fox collar. Just search for "ferret coat" on YouTube.

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* Patricia Roland of the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' games wears a coat of her pet foxes, who then come loose and help her in some tasks. The silver fox on her neck even acts as an ExpressiveAccessory.

->''Beatrice Bright is for animal rights--\\

The fox that she wears is still'' alive.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'', the teenage girl Charlene gets a stole which is a real mink-like creature. The stole is very snooty and starts telling her which friends are not high-class enough to be friends of "theirs". In the end Charlene decides some fashions just aren't worth it.

* ''Munster, Go Home!'': The Munsters are traveling by ship to England to see a castle they inherited. Grandpa Munster accidentally turns into a wolf (having mistaken wolf pills for seasick pills) and is worn by Lily to get through customs when he hasn't changed back yet.

* In the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' books, there's a live genetically-engineered fur blanket that "feeds" on light, so it doesn't even have a head, and appears nonliving until it's touched. Knowing that it's alive ends up being a plot point.

* ''Film/GhostbustersII'' has a freaky scene where the evil slime terrorizes New York, and one poor lady in a fur coat has it come alive, turning into a pack of pissed-off minks.

* ''Film/GhostbustersII'' has a freaky scene where the evil slime terrorizes New York, and one poor lady in a fur coat has it come alive, turning into a pack of pissed-off minks!

Contrast CruellaToAnimals.

A SisterTrope to ItsFakeFurItsFine (in averting the implications of real fur), FeatherBoaConstrictor (wearing a snake similarly), GardenGarment (wearing plants that avoid withering).

** In the opening sequence for the ''S'' movie, Minako tries on several outfits in a retail shop. The last one is a super-revealing dress... and she's wearing a fastidiated Artemis as a stole.

Basically when a character (most often a woman) is wearing one or more fur-bearing animals like a fur.

* In the ''MerrieMelodies'' cartoon ''Fox Pop'' (1942), a fox overhears a radio announcement that fox furs are fashionable that season. The fox immediately imagines a woman wearing him, wrapped (alive) around her neck.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has a "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror" segment that parodies ''Literature/TheIslandOfDrMoreau'', where Dr. Hibbert transforms several characters into animals. One scene has him wearing a fox around his neck, which is actually a transformed Mr. Burns.

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** In the episode, "Prom-ise Her Anything", Elmyra wore Furrball as a sash as part of her prom outfit.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had a "TreehouseOfHorror" segment that parodied ''TheIslandOfDrMoreau'', where Dr. Hibbert transformed several characters into animals. One scene had him wearing a fox around his neck, which was actually a transformed Mr. Burns.

A SisterTrope to ItsFakeFurItsFine (in averting the implications of real fur), FeatherBoaConstrictor (wearing a snake similarly).

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* Marie Miwa of the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' games wears a coat of her pet foxes, who then come loose and help her in some tasks. The silver fox on her neck even acts as an ExpressiveAccessory.

* ''Manga/SailorMoon'':

** In the opening sequel for the ''S'' movie, Minako tries on several outfits in a retail shop. The last one is a super-revealing dress... and she's wearing a fastidiated Artemis as a stole.

Basically when a woman is wearing one or more fur-bearing animals like a fur.

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* ''Manga/SailorMoon''

* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}} 2'' has a freaky scene where the evil slime terrorizes New York, and one poor lady in a fur coat has it come alive, turning into a pack of pissed-off minks!

-->'''Nanny''': I happen to believe in beauty without cruelty.

* Once in ''Series/{{Mongrels}}'' Nelson spends some time pretending to be a fox stole for some celebrity in order to retrieve his girlfriend's corpse that she had been wearing.

* In an older DonaldDuck cartoon, a bear trying to escape hunters disguises himself as the bearskin rug in a hunter(Donald, natch)'s cabin. After Donald finally leaves, it turns out the original rug, which the bear had stuffed in a trunk, was another bear who had the idea first.
* In the MerrieMelodies cartoon "Fox Pop" (1942), a fox overhears a radio announcement that fox furs are fashionable that season. The fox immediately imagines a woman wearing him, wrapped (alive) around her neck.