What does chinchilla look like?

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Fur coats from chinchilla furs are highly appreciated, so if you decide to purchase this wardrobe item, you need to be very careful to avoid a fake.

Let's see how the chinchilla fur looks and how to distinguish it from another fur.

Price. The fur coat from chinchilla is very expensive: the minimum price is 5 thousand dollars. If you see a fur coat cheaper, most likely, you are trying to sell a fake.
The structure of fur. Chinchilla from one hair bulb grows about 50 hairs, this feature makes fur uniquely dense.
Color and texture. The color of the hair of a chinchilla is not uniform, it seems to pour over the entire length. The natural color of the chinchilla is dark gray with white or bluish-white. Of course, you can meet and dyed fur, but to paint manufacturers resort rarely, so as not to spoil the most valuable fur.
The weight. The chinchilla fur coat is very light. As a rule, under a chinchilla fake rabbit, which is much heavier. The chinchilla fur coat made of 300 skins will weigh about 2 kilograms, the rest of the fur will be much heavier.
Exceptional softness. Chinchilla fur is very soft and gentle, tough and coarse hair are extremely rare.
Adaptation to the environment. The chinchilla fur is always a bit cool, the other fur, especially the rabbit fur, takes the room temperature very quickly.

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