This is what i love about leather work. It has the potential to become sentimental pieces as they last through time.
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Good quality cotton hemp or flax clothes will easily last 30 years if you take care of them.
Good quality leather and wool can last 50+ years, longer if you take proper care of it.
Planned obsolescence has warped people's minds.
Their synthetic products with poor quality stitching has people thinking that these things are not meant to last.
The polyester t-shirts that fall apart after 6 months etc.
The vinal fake leather crap, and all the plastics and crap.
People just don't expect things to last anymore and therefore do not take proper care of them like we used to.
Very few actually make shit that will last, feeding into the cycle of expectations
Yes, even if the materials are higher quality a lot of time the stitching glue or whatever else isn't up to the same standard and things just fall apart.
a pair of wool UGG boots I got last year damn soles aren't even stitched in, the stitching was literally just faked.
Got the boots wet and the glue dissolved and they just fell apart.
Even though it's high quality materials shit just wasn't put together properly
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Polyester clothes foster BO too.
Natural fiber only is the way to go.