The main points of buying a leather bag
1. Look at the surface of the leather
Genuine leather surface has clearer pores, patterns, cowhide pores fine and dense, irregular arrangement, leather smooth. Yellow cowhide has more proportional fine pores, sheepskin has fish scale holes;
2. Look at the leather of the closing section
Put the leather bag, wallet, etc. leather edge turned out to see, genuine leather leather is more loose, there are animal fibers, and artificial leather is more compact, no fiber. It is a good imitation leather, the edge can not do the same as the real leather;
3. Press the surface of the leather with your fingers
When you press the leather down with your finger, there will be small wrinkles on the surface, and when you lift your finger, the wrinkles will disappear immediately. Synthetic leather and artificial leather do not have wrinkles, but if there are wrinkles after pressing, they will not disappear naturally;
4. Pinch the leather surface with your nails
If the nail marks disappear quickly and return to their original state, the leather is genuine, if it does not recover or takes a long time to recover, it is fake leather;
5. Smell the leather
The real leather obviously has a fishy animal smell, while the fake leather has a more stimulating plastic smell;
6. Ignite
Tear off a bit of fibre from the back of real leather and artificial leather, light it on fire, where the pungent smell, lumpy is artificial leather; where the hair smell, not hard lumpy is genuine leather.
7. Drip water
After a few minutes, the water droplets will spread through the pores, and you can see obvious wet spots, which means that the leather is absorbing water, then it is proved to be genuine leather.
Myths about the purchase of genuine leather bags
1. think that the quality of goods is leather must be good
Genuine leather is people for the difference between synthetic leather and the customary name of natural leather. Leather is processed from mammalian skin, there are many kinds, quality also varies, leather has different levels, the first layer of leather is not only wear-resistant, and has good breathability, and the second layer of leather fastness, wear resistance is poor, so different goods should choose the appropriate leather, can not think that the quality of leather goods is necessarily good.
2.that the goods are genuine leather is 100% genuine leather
At present, there are a lot of so-called genuine leather goods on the market, they will use part of the genuine leather and part of the imitation leather together to do, in some obvious, the main position with genuine leather, and some hidden, secondary position with imitation leather, thus with the low cost of goods.
3.Think soft is leather
In fact, the difference between genuine leather and imitation leather is that the raw materials are different, and the post-treatment method is very similar, the surface effect may be very close and not easy to distinguish, the breathability, strength, aging resistance and feel of genuine leather is better, imitation leather there is a certain gap, but its softness may be better, leading to consumer misidentification.
