That it is uneducated folly that LV’s elegant, tough, spectacularly designed bags with vachetta leather need to be babied. Vachetta leather was specifically applied to the wear edges and stress points of canvas covered trunks in order to withstand the abuse of the elements and vicissitudes of travel. These bags were tied to open carriages, covered with road dust, rain and snow, stacked at wharf side and loaded into dank, dark holds of ocean-crossing ships sometimes for months at a time. They were toted by the world’s greatest explorers and adventurers—by train and barge and pack mules.
And yet somehow, 165 years later, fashionistas barely out of diapers have decided that Mr. Vuitton, having created a marvel of a lightweight, virtually indestructible bag (which is unduplicated to this day) had no idea what he was doing. They have invented the notion that vachetta is “delicate” and “you must be careful with it.“ Because they value nothing that shows any sign of having actually been used for a practical purpose, they believe ideal vachetta must never lose its perfect pale newness or have dust or spots or scratches. The pervasiveness of this nonsense has pressured LV to remove the protective vachetta from the wear points of many designs rendering them useless for those of us who want to carry anything other than three tubes of lip gloss. And then these same people who won’t buy a bag with vachetta, are shocked and dismayed when their canvas bag wears on the corners and stress points. They feel betrayed and duped that a bag that LV could at one time repair (by replacing the leather) can no longer be repaired because there is none.
Well at least I made you smile. 
I don’t know know what gets into me sometimes, I need to calm down. 
