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- Dec 19, 2022
Fake leather can be more durable, and doesn’t require oiling. The last time they made a lot of noise they ended up using mushroom skin leather, so I suspect that’s what’ll happen this time too. Mushroom skin has no benefits over real leather apart from cost, which tracks with a premium product. Got to max those margins.Why also vegan pleather. Leather is better and is actually luxurious and more environmentally friendly than whatever plastic polymer abomination they use.
You need to be very picky about leather products because you want them to last and wear beautifully, and certainly Linus don’t understand this. Absolutely you want them to be genuine leather, plastic doesn’t wear right and mushroom/cork is too fragile. I have a fifteen year old leather clutch that’s more beautiful now than it was new because it has worn with well use. Will this backpack do the same? I doubt it.
It shocks me that people would trust a tech youtuber with making leather products. That’s more the field of fashion YouTubers, and I’d be more trusting of that since at least I’d know they also know the basics of decent bags. Why isn’t Linus making mouse mats and keyboards or something else I’d actually trust him to understand?