Chinchilla-like artificial fur

An chinchilla-like artificial fur, comprising:

• a substrate fabric weighing from 50 to 150 g/square meter, made of yarn consisting essentially of filaments of 1.5 deniers or less and having a stiffness in both the warp and weft directions of 40 mm or less;
• a multiplicity of pile fibers projecting upwardly from the surface of said substrate fabric, said pile fibers consisting essentially of
• (1) a multitude of underhairs having a fineness of from 0.9 to 2.5 deniers, an average length of from 15 to 25 mm, a hair density of from 12,000 to 20,000 hairs/cm.sup.2 and a crimp ratio of from 0.5 to 5%, at least 70% of the number of said underhairs having lengths within .+-.30% of the average length of all of said underhairs, and
• (2) a multitude of guard hairs which are thicker and longer than said underhairs, said guard hairs having a fineness of from 8 to 20 denier and a hair density of from 50 to 1,000 hairs/cm.sup.2, the weight ratio of guard hairs to the total of said pile fibers and the fineness of said guard hairs lying on or within the closed quadrilateral area defined by lines connecting the points P, Q, R and S in alphabetical order, wherein the points P, Q, R and S are defined on an XY rectangular coordinate system by the following values
• ______________________________________ X Axis Fineness of Y Axis Guard Point Single Guard Hair Hair Ratio ______________________________________ P 20 8 Q 20 20 R 8 23 S 8 9, ______________________________________
• the average length of said guard hairs being from 1 to 6 mm longer than the average length of said underhairs, the weight, per unit area of said substrate, of the parts of said guard hairs that extend above said underhairs being from 0.2 to 10 mg/cm.sup.2, said guard hairs being free from crimps, said pile fibers exhibiting a low anisotropy, said pile fibers having a minimum friction coefficient (M.sub.1) of 1.2 or less measured in a first direction in which said pile fibers are inclined and having a second friction coefficient (M.sub.2) measured in a second direction which extends at an angle of 180.degree. to said first direction, and the ratio of M.sub.2 /M.sub.1 is from 1/1 to 1.2/1.