Your new Coach: a mini-reveal thread!

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#26,391
Hyacinth said:
"Original Glove-tanned Leather" has no legal or official definition whatsoever. It can mean anything Coach wants it to mean including leather layered with or covered with plastic to the extent that US law allows. "Full-grain leather" on the other hand, is or was a legal definition for all natural skins with no plastic at all and is what almost all vintage pre-China leather Coach bags were made from.

Carefully read the very long but very informative Coach Screed for an explanation of Coach leather descriptions and what has changed over the years, and why so many of the modern bags feel and smell like plastic:



ETA - From The Coach Screed:

"WHAT IS GLOVE-TANNED?" Classic style vs. Fast Fashion

So old Coach bags were made from full-grain leather --the hide's natural surface-- vat-dyed with oil-based aniline dyes? Yes. And then the leather was glove-tanned in a special secret technical process known only to and used only by Coach? No. Some of the later Coach promotional material does kind of make it sound that way, as do many of the current silly puff pieces you encounter constantly on the web. But the truth is quite different. Understanding exactly what "glove-tanned" means just became more crucial, too, since more recent Coach/Tapestry marketing has elected to stretch (we feel, maybe even pollute) this branding concept as "GENUINE GLOVETANNED LEATHER," all run together as one word, and now printed on the bottoms or backs of certain reissued/'archival' bags (see ex. below) that are now being made of mere 'genuine leather.' Some of us have even begun to suspect that this move indicates a hope that young buyers may become (even more) confused, mistaking "glovetanned" for some known benchmark of leather quality, and thus failing to notice the switch from good full-grain leather to the lower-quality splits found in 'genuine leather.' For the record, full-grain actually is a benchmark of leather quality. "Glove-tanned" is not, and was always a branding concept. This recent use of the new GLOVETANNED makes a look at the origins and meaning of glove leather worthwhile...."
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This was super interesting, thanks for sharing. I probably count as one of the newbies who thought glove-tanned leather was an indication of quality.

I tend to find that I like their bags that are marked as glove-tanned the most, but for me this is largely because often they are the smooth leather bags and tend to feel high quality to me. But it’s good to know that they are not necessarily the higher quality bags.
 
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I have about 50 coach bags. I think I’ve only paid full price for about 3 of them. I saw this on Nordstrom’s website and I had to order it. There is a similar one on the coach website but of course it’s not included in the private event and it’s also on backorder. Thinking of getting the rogue bag charm to go with it.
 

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leopardgirl0123 said:
I have about 50 coach bags. I think I’ve only paid full price for about 3 of them. I saw this on Nordstrom’s website and I had to order it. There is a similar one on the coach website but of course it’s not included in the private event and it’s also on backorder. Thinking of getting the rogue bag charm to go with it.
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I was eying this one! Sooo cute!:heart:
Are the "pockets" painted on?
 
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