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Only Vintage Fur buttons

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Only Vintage Fur buttons

Why It's Good:

This is how Riccardo Bonechi of New York City's fine vintage store Rue St. Denis describes the pins he designed: "They're perfect. I chose the font and the black and the white to look like the best kind of vintage"—slightly worn, with character and maybe a story to tell, and yet timelessly chic. Also: might help prevent strangers from getting in your face for wearing your grandmother's fur-cuffed hand-me-down.

Why It's Green:

Is it animal-friendly to wear cuddly critters that have been dead for perhaps decades? Die-hard activists would say no: There is no statutory limit on murder and it still meant some poor thing was cruelly trapped and had their skins ripped off. The less fanatical might say that vintage or anything second-hand is giving new life and use to something that might otherwise have moldered in a attic or been thrown out in a rubbish heap. We don't aim to set morality—just to give you options, and you pick what feels right for you.

Where To Get It:

Call Rue St. Denis 212-260-3388 to order. Medium button is $15, large button is $20; shipping charges separate.

Guilt-Free Fur?

A badge of honor or a shield of protection? When wearing this "Only Vintage Fur" button pinned to your '50s fox-collared coat, it's totally up to you which side you fall on this philosophical hair-split. You don't have to be a PETA target—such as Anna Wintour, Vogue's editor-in-chief, who once found her Four Seasons lunch interrupted by a dead raccoon somersaulting onto her plate—to fear reprisal of some kind while wearing your gorgeous thrift-shop steal. (Or even a faux-fur find: One Sprig staffer was deemed a "murderous freak" while sporting a very real-looking plushy vest. Ahh, New York.) Relax knowing that this button, designed by Riccardo Bonechi, the proprietor of discerning vintage store Rue St. Denis in Manhattan's East Village, declares your body a no-insult safety zone. But then there's the other, more positive (and shall we say, more Sprig-like) side of the equation. Why live in a defensive posture? Why not proudly proclaim your support of perhaps the greatest, most eco-effective R in that environmental triumvirate—Re-use? Vintage shoppers: Recognize!