I have a fur and I wear it. I spent a lot of money on it and I love it and will have it forever. You only need one. I'm not Kimora Lee Simmons with her 500 $12K Hermes bags and 100+ furs. I think excessive fur buying is no different than excessive animal activism - EXCESSIVE.
I think that we have the right to adore and abhor the things we want, but it drives me crazy when people become so dogmatic about it. I am not that into JLo, but when McCartney's wife went there with her PETA duds and made a huge hullaballoo, it was too excessive. If you want to make a statement, don't buy fur. I mean - when you hit furriers in the wallets, that's when you make a difference. Money's what it boils down to.
Even though we have synthetics, don't forget they are mainly produced overseas in sweatshops with little regulation. Also, it always struck me funny that no animal rights activist has ever attacked silk production. The worm gets boiled alive - and more disgusting is that in the Indian silk industry, little kids no more than 6 or 7 are burning themselves dipping the worms in the scalding water and going blind from the lye. There are a lot of tragedies out there like 3rd world pharmaceutical testing, white slave trading, war, famine, disease - fur seems quite inconsequential on the scale of things.