Wondering how many of you still pleat the tails on your mink when you board it. It takes alot longer I know but I like the looks of that pleated tail.

It looks great but It Isn't going to get you any more money. Go full length and slap a piece of cardboard over It and stick In a few push pins.

I use to pleat them til the new price structure of 2-3 dollars now 1 pin suffices......

What do you mean by pleated tails? I pleat the legs of my mink over to beside the tail to form a square butt as in these pictures . Is this what you mean or something else.

BC Tomcat:

No, you actually push the tail up to make it shorter, back in the day it was supposed to make the back fur fuller and price a little higher, but the Beav is right the price now for mink it isn't really worth the effort. I still do it just because I like the looks.

It was a common practice for years, but maybe 5-6 years ago, an auction house began discouraging it.

I've been pulling the back legs around to the tail side(like they show in the NAFA dvd)

I always pleat the tail to shorten it cause thats how I was told to do it.

Still pleat my mink and coon tails. Just because that's the way I've put them up for quite a while. I know prices are low and it won't matter but I love my time in the fur shed and take pride in my work.