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Fur Coat Repair & Restyling in NYC
Reline, shorten, restyle, or repair a mink, sable, fox, chinchilla, or shearling coat --- five decades of hands-on fur repair in Manhattan's Fur District.
Most inherited furs need three things: a new lining, a shorter length, and a modern collar. That's a fraction of the cost of a new coat and the result is a piece that reads current but has decades of workmanship inside it.
Ervin has done every kind of repair --- split seams, torn linings, worn cuffs, remounts onto new hides. If a coat can be saved, he'll tell you. If it can't, he'll say that too and use the good sections in something else.
What we do, plain and simple
Reline
New silk or satin lining in a color you pick. Stops the coat from wearing through at the seams.
Shorten
Trim a full-length coat to stroller or jacket length. Clean proportion, no wasted fur.
Restyle
New collar, cuffs, closures, or silhouette. Turn Grandma's mink into something you'd actually wear.
Fix lining
Patch torn pockets, replace worn panels, reinforce seams. Small fixes that add years.
By fur type
Mink
Relining, shortening, collar restyles, seam repair
Sable
Restyling, cuff and closure updates, lining replacement
Fox
Trimming, cleaning refresh, torn-pelt repair
Chinchilla
Delicate repair, relining, panel replacement
Shearling
Shearling repair, lining replacement, leather-side repair, restyling
Vintage & inherited
Full remounts, modern restyles, preserving pelts
Inherited coats, new life
A vintage fur is already a finished piece of craftsmanship --- the work is in updating it to fit your body and your life. Ervin restyles inherited mink, fox, and sable coats every season, cutting conservatively so the original character stays intact.
Read: the case for vintage furBefore & after
Full-length mink -> cropped jacket
Worn silk lining -> new satin lining
Dated fox collar -> modern stand collar
Grandmother's fur coat, still in the closet
The most common question Ervin gets is what to do with an old fur coat that's been hanging unworn for years - your mother's mink, your grandmother's fur, inherited but never taken out. The answer is almost always the same: restyle it.
To restyle an inherited fur coat is to remake an old mink coat into something you'd actually put on. A full-length coat becomes a shorter jacket. A heavy silhouette becomes a vest. A worn lining comes out and a new one goes in, and the collar and cuffs get cut to a shape that reads present-day - the same relining, shortening, and restyling work described above, applied to a piece that already exists.
Bring it in and Ervin will look at the pelts and the seams and tell you honestly what the coat can become. Sitting unused is the only outcome that wastes it.
Come by the shop.
Ervin will show you the skins first, then talk about the coat. Fittings by appointment; walk-ins welcome when the door is open.