I should have assumed, but I am just now realizing the suits cost that much and that there are infact fursuit repair shops. I would have thought it was going into a fabric store… Living over here in my isolated ignorance I guess lol
(Comically I had to go back and edit pursuit to fursuit because it wasn’t in my phones standard diction)
They’re expensive for the same kind of reasons that getting a tailor to custom make a normal suit from scratch would be expensive. Takes a lot of labor and only a relatively small pool of people have the relevant skills, plus some of the material costs add up.
I should have assumed, but I am just now realizing the suits cost that much and that there are infact fursuit repair shops. I would have thought it was going into a fabric store… Living over here in my isolated ignorance I guess lol
(Comically I had to go back and edit pursuit to fursuit because it wasn’t in my phones standard diction)
They’re expensive for the same kind of reasons that getting a tailor to custom make a normal suit from scratch would be expensive. Takes a lot of labor and only a relatively small pool of people have the relevant skills, plus some of the material costs add up.
They’ve been around a long time actually. Somebody had to make mascot costumes, and i imagine that skillset translates pretty well to fursuits
Mascots are just commercially acceptable fursonas
Mascots are corporate / sports fursonas.