Coypu Couture: Nutria-Based Fashion Line Aims to Help Save Louisiana's Coastal Wetlands

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Fashion is big on recycling itself, an axiom that is readily apparent in watching the '80s-style designs trotted recently along the runways of New York, Paris and Milan.

Now a pair of New Orleanians aims to tap consumers' taste for recycled trends and interest in environmental preservation with a clothing line built around the pelts of nutria, those pesky, non- native rodents imported to the Bayou State for the fur trade that are now blamed for gnawing away at tens of thousands of acres of Louisiana's coastal wetlands each year.

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Coypu Couture: Nutria-Based Fashion Line Aims to Help Save Louisiana's Coastal Wetlands

Cree McCree, a New Orleans writer and artist, figures her line, dubbed Righteous Fur, could help diminish the nutria population while satisfying an appetite for what she deems "guilt-free" fur.

"We're helping to save the wetlands and at the same time recycle and reuse wasted materials," ...

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