Would ponies have a winter coat?

[ggg-2 3,550]

Real life ponies and horses, like many mammals, have a thicker winter coat of fur. (They look super cute and fluffy ) Would ponies in Equestria have a winter coat like this too?

[Malinter 3,064]

they probably do. The show just doesn't show them all that fluffy because animating it would be a pain in the butt.

[Chara 1,565]

No, in Winter Wrap Up no one had any coats on. (at least from what I saw)

[Britney Biskit 55]

Yeah I think they like, do

[Malinter 3,064]

No, in Winter Wrap Up no one had any coats on. (at least from what I saw)

 

for fashion, not for elemental protection.

[Metemponychosis 1,238]

I'd like to see that! But the fact that they wear saddles and other clothing articles for winter speaks against that.

[Shanks 10,811]

Probably though there are likely some limits on how much protection said coats would offer, they are ponies and not polar bears after all. I would assume the amount of protection they would offer would be similar to a small to mid sized dogs winter coat.

[NullAccount 287]

Probably not. In the episode Winter Wrap Up, we saw ponies wearing clothes to stay warm. If they had winter coats, they wouldn't need warm clothes. I do think a pony with a fluffy winter coat would be adorable, though!

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 40,354]

While we may never see such a thing, I would looooove for it to be a thing for at least one episode. We then could see Fluffy Derpy in the background. :3 Pretty every character in that episode would be a pony pillow. XD

[Riganthor 483]

While we may never see such a thing, I would looooove for it to be a thing for at least one episode. We then could see Fluffy Derpy in the background. :3 Pretty every character in that episode would be a pony pillow. XD

or like the hairy flufle puff

[Venomous 18,813]

Assuming that the MLP ponies function as real life horses, then yes.

[cider float 2,536]

 

Twilight and Rarity must be the only ones with winter coats since they don't wear... winter coats... what?

[Cupid's Bow 26]

this topic is making me want to draw fanart of a really floofy applejack and/or rarity omg!

[sweetolebob18 724]

Of course they have Winter coats -Rarity makes them.  (in the Winter Wrap Up song, Rarity notes "this fashion's getting old")

Edited January 5, 2016 by sweetolebob18

[CrystalRarity 119]

..Hope so because that sounds ADORABLE.    Previous posts about said winter coats offering not too much protection sound plausible.. at least, such that the ponies wouldn't then be sweltering in winter garments.  But surely many ponies, at least in Pony Nudist Colonyville, go about naked even in winter, so a winter coat woouuld make adorable sense.

 

fluffy ponies fluffy ponies fluffy ponies

 

An episode where the Mane 6 are shedding, heck yes.  XD

[ggg-2 3,550]

this topic is making me want to draw fanart of a really floofy applejack and/or rarity omg!

Do it! It'd be doing Celestia's work!

[cider float 2,536]

Inb4 someone mentions Flufflepuff

[Justin_Case001 4,857]

It wouldn't be hard for the animators to do winter coats.  All you'd need is a few little curvy arrow shaped lines in the color of their outlines drawn throughout their body.  I'd love to see that in a winter episode.  But judging from the ratio of winter to non-winter episodes on FIM, I'd estimate that winter in Equestria lasts for about 2 days.