(Click image for larger view.) A lingerie-football hopeful tries out for the team . (Joshua Trujillo)
The women of the Seattle Mist lingerie football team are getting tough on fur.
They?ll be taking part in one of PETA?s infamous demonstrations in downtown Seattle Wednesday, gathering at 4th Avenue and Pine Street to urge lunchtime pedestrians to ?leave fur off their shopping lists.?
Maybe buy a nice pair of tiny shorts instead.
?Wearing fur is a personal foul,? PETA spokeswoman Katie Arth said in an email advertising the demonstration. ?With so many stylish, warm, and durable fabrics available today, there?s no excuse for wearing anyone?s skin.?
PETA is famous for its nearly-naked demonstrations in cities all over the world. Usually, the protests feature attractive women wearing only underwear ? if they?re wearing anything at all. Here in Seattle, we get naked PETA protests a few times a year.
Take a look at what else the organization is up to lately.
Two half naked women, from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA) painted with Canadian flags, protest against seal slaughter outside the Canada Trade Office in Taipei on March 23, 2011. (SAM YEH / AFP/Getty Images)
(L to R) Park Ki-Hyun, Shawn Mcrae and Ashley Fruno of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) hold banners against fur in front of SETEC on March 27, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)
Lana Went (R) and Kristi-Anna Brydon (L), wearing nothing but bikinis made of real lettuce leaves, urge commuters and passersby to go vegetarian during a PETA protest in Sydney, 01 May 2007. (TORSTEN BLACKWOOD / AFP/Getty Images)
PETA activists at a past demonstration in Westlake Park in Seattle. The women, and a group of supporters, surprised people with their display. (Photo: Seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
PETA activists at a past demonstration in Westlake Park in Seattle. The women, and a group of supporters, surprised people with their display. (Photo: Seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
PETA demonstrators mimic typical meat packages with signs reading, "Meat Is Murder," in Times Square July 27, 2010. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP/Getty Images)
Two nude Peta girls shower on a sidewalk in Holllywood, California on March 22, 2011 in celebration of World Water Day to expose meat's alleged devastating impact on the planet. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS (Photo credit should read GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images) (GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP/Getty Images)
Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) wearing real lettuce leaves, hold signs that read "Turn Over a New Leaf, Go Vegetarian" on June 28, 2011 in Johannesburg to urge South Africans to go vegetarian. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP/Getty Images)
Washington, UNITED STATES: Activists from People for the Ethical Treatmant of Animals lie naked in flower-decorated coffins before counter-activists from the Center for Consumer Freedom (TOP) during a protest outside the United States Department of Agriculture 09 November 2005 in Washington, DC. (NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP/Getty Images)
A pair of Washington, DC police officers watch protester Erin Maupin, part of a group of topless protesters, outside the Spanish Embassy June 6, 2006 in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)
PETA activists Shatha Hamade (R) and Kristi-Anna Brydon stage a "nude" protest outside a Burberry Store December 12, 2006 in Sydney, Australia. (Ian Waldie / Getty Images)
Nearly nude PETA member Amy Jannette wears plaid body paint as she holds a sign protesting the use of fur by the Burberry clothing company, 29 May 2007, outside a Burberry store in New York. (STAN HONDA / AFP/Getty Images)
Paris, FRANCE: Members of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) stand in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, 27 June 2007 to protest against corridas and bullfighting in the world, before the sixth Naked Human Race of PETA Europe set to take place 05 July 2007. AFP PHOTO BERTRAND GUAY (Photo credit should read BERTRAND GUAY/AFP/Getty Images) (BERTRAND GUAY / AFP/Getty Images)
A PETA protestor in a body suit holds a "Naked Woman Demonstration: All Animals Have The Same Parts" at a busy intersection in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong, 09 November 2007. (MIKE CLARKE / AFP/Getty Images)
Lettuce Ladies Ashley Byrne (L) and Jessica Levin (R) of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), wear bikinis in below freezing weather as they hand out free tofu sandwiches to pedestrians while promoting vegan eating and animal rights at Farragut Square in Washington, DC, on January 4, 2010. (SAUL LOEB / AFP/Getty Images)
PETA activists at a past demonstration in Westlake Park in Seattle. The women, and a group of supporters, surprised people with their display. (Photo: Seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
PETA activists at a past demonstration in Westlake Park in Seattle. The women, and a group of supporters, surprised people with their display. (Photo: Seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
PETA activists at a past demonstration in Westlake Park in Seattle. The women, and a group of supporters, surprised people with their display. (Photo: Seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
PETA activists at a past demonstration in Westlake Park in Seattle. The women, and a group of supporters, surprised people with their display. (Photo: Seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
Activists of an animal rights group "People for Ethnical Treatment of Animals" (PETA) protest in wired cages in front of a Giorgio Armani shop at Tokyo's Ginza fashion district on November 15, 2011. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO / AFP/Getty Images)
Wednesday?s protest with the Mist will feature 10 players, including Chelsie Jorgensen and Angela Rypien, in their uniforms. They?ll and hold signs that read, ?Tackle Cruelty: Bench Fur.?
The demonstration starts at noon. Football fans, bring your cameras.
Visit seattlepi.com?s home page for more Seattle news. Contact Amy Rolph at amyrolph@seattlepi.com or on Twitter as @amyrolph and @bigblog.
The women of the Seattle Mist lingerie football team are getting tough on fur.
They?ll be taking part in one of PETA?s infamous demonstrations in downtown Seattle Wednesday, gathering at 4th Avenue and Pine Street to urge lunchtime pedestrians to ?leave fur off their shopping lists.?
Maybe buy a nice pair of tiny shorts instead.
?Wearing fur is a personal foul,? PETA spokeswoman Katie Arth said in an email advertising the demonstration. ?With so many stylish, warm, and durable fabrics available today, there?s no excuse for wearing anyone?s skin.?
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