# Help me with my nappy coat.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-my-nappy-coat/276468>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 24, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-my-nappy-coat/276468 "2004-11-24T14:44:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-my-nappy-coat/276468/1 "2004-11-24T14:44:10Z")

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A friend of a friend gave me this supah-fantastic vintage coat that used to belong to her mother. It’s double-breasted wool with fluffy fur cuffs and a fluffy fur rim around the bottom of the coat. It’s in absolutely immaculate condition (_are you sure you don’t want to sell this on Ebay?_ I asked) . . .

. . . or it WAS, until I wore it (for the first time) this morning to brush snow off of the cars! I got the fur around the bottom of the coat all wet, and now it has, for lack of a better phrase, “gone home” on me!

In other words, the furry part that got wet is now _curly_ fur! (Strangely enough, this has endeared the coat to me even more–a curly-haired kindred spirit!)

So help me! What do I do? If I wait for it to dry, can I just brush it straight again? Or do I have to take it to my hair stylist for a blow-out and a flat-iron? 😉