PatriciaLaHag wrote:Thanks for your support. Of course, I can't prove my theory now, but I asked Phicen right now and will wait for their response.
The fur looks like the material which was used on the Female Dragon Warrior sets from Vicky Secrets. This was rabbit fur. Hopefully I am wrong.
I’d love to see you get an answer from Phicen/TBL but of itself I am not hopeful. Something like Mattel or even Sideshow would probably give you a straight answer but I would not be optimistic about smaller companies in the Asian region. Maybe you could direct them to the new laws prohibiting sale of fur items in California (and suggest that if they do not answer you may pursue it further with the authorities or worse for them, the retailers) which should at least get TBL's attention. NY Times says "For the purpose of the law, fur is defined as “animal skin or part thereof with hair, fleece or fur fibers attached thereto.” For the purposes of shoppers, that means mink, sable, chinchilla, lynx, fox, rabbit, beaver, coyote and other luxury furs." So here's a link https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/style/fur-ban-california.html you could use to get TBL's attention with. Several prominent retailers are in California, so if TBL can reassure you, they should do so, before someone suggests to those prominent California retailers that some TBL goods could be illegal.
I'm not quite sure where rabbit fur places on the ethical scale. Leather gets a partial pass as an existing by-product of the food industry (unless the rule is that all "Meat is murder") while mink, chinchilla etc and even cat are outright raised for fur, and totally indefensible. Rabbit fur is probably on the latter side, since some are offshoots of food industry, but probably not enough to supply all of the fur industry use. But now I'm veering off-topic.