this is part two of my personal guide to know leather, specially when you shop and you can check the first part by clicking here
now you know the difference between the grains and the top quality leather, how would you tell if it is worth your money or not?
there are few ways, some of them are easy to know , some of them needs some practice.
1- The Touch
genuine leather , feels like touching your skin, smooth, flexible and has small particles and usually if you press a little bit hard it will bend with you causing the leather to wrinkle which wouldn’t happen with the False leather.
2-Nails
the best way to try is through passing and pressing with a finger nail, it will cause the leather to scratch a little bit yet heal back again which wouldn’t happen with the fake leather as it wouldn’t even scratch.
3-Smell
my favourite test , people will think you are strange doing that, but real leather has a distinguished smell that is special, too bad nowadays some are adding even that smell to the fake leather, have you ever smelled sushi bar, it smells almost like that.
4-Fire
this will make people scream around you, bring a heat source and bring it close to the leather, the real leather would go softer and heated up but wouldn’t burn but when it comes to fake leather it will burn or deform in away.
6- The Edges
usually real leather will have uneven edges
7-The Colour Blue
usually the process of preparing leather is a long and expensive so leaving the blue coloured leather and only tanning the surface is common, they would sell it as high quality leather, but you should search the inside, and the edges as you will notice a difference in colour between the blue and the coloured surface.
leather goods are the best fashionable items to hold and walk around with , you need to know what you are holding so no one would discriminate you trying to explain that you are holding the best quality while it is something totally different , I highly recommend buying your leather goods from well known and reputable leather stores.
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