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Re: Let's have a fashion advice thread. - A

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calenlass:
PETA can suck it. I used to know someone through a historical society I worked with who practiced leather tanning, and he seemed to believe that most tanners get the skins either as castoffs from meat plants (or are, y'know, allotted for when the cows are raised for slaughter) or are acquired when a cow is put down, the way you'd put down an older dog or cat who is no longer living a good quality life, because with something as useful as leather it would be a shame to let a perfectly good hide go to waste.

It is kind of the same thing where a friend of mine in Japan had a friend whose parents knew someone (or whatever) who made shamisens. They were first covered in rice paper, but sometime in their history someone discovered that catskin sounds better. This of course sounds horrible, and I'm sure there are still questionable places in Japan that don't go about this very nicely, but my Japanese friend said that as far as she knew, shamisen-makers get the skins from the pound after the animals are put down.

So anyway! I guess my point is that not everyone tortures animals even though they use their skins for things, although I guess if you are a member of PETA you probably also think that eating meat is cruel, too, so this is probably a pointless post.

öde:
I don't think people that are against leather are against it for the cruelty aspects, but mainly as it's a by-product of the meat industry. A lot of the vegetarian/vegans I know are more practical regarding things that would otherwise go to waste. Furs are more the target of meat eaters (well, not necessarily but your post seemed directed at people that ate meat but don't want animals to suffer) who don't want the cute little animals to be raised and slaughtered. I'm also pretty certain most people on this forum either actively dislike or don't care about PETA, probably because they're hypocritical wastes of time. But anyway, how 'bout that fashion!

pwhodges:
I wear a baggy leather jacket; and I like it even if you do not.  I bought it in Florence, at the leather market.



(sorry for poor quality)

Jimmy the Squid:
I have three leather jackets (four if suede counts as leather) and they are some of my favourite things ever. I posted the newest acquisition earlier but my others are equally good if different in style.



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I don't much like the harley davidson type biker jackets unless you're actually riding one, you'll just end up looking like the Fonz.

Eris:
Lunchy, I saw a heap of jackets similar to you one (kind of a cross between yours and mine) in places like Dotti and Jay Jays today. Just Jeans too, I think. I don't know how real the leather was on some of them, but they all seemed to cost around $120, so I am guessing kinda real?

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