Handmade leather bags: how to recognize them [first part]

Over time, technological evolution has made it increasingly difficult to immediately recognize a genuine leather bag from a fake leather one, but with the advice we are about to reveal to you, no one will be able to take advantage of your good faith and you will be able to distinguish the quality of a bag perfectly made with real animal skin from synthetic ones.

We decided to share these tips with you because we love handcrafted products and we want you too to be able to complete your look with the best possible quality without falling into annoying pitfalls that will make you dissatisfied with your purchase. Our Online Shop offers exclusively handcrafted leather bags made with the best materials that you can find online and we can't wait to let you test our advice on one of the Emporium Italy leather bags.
Let's get right to the heart of the advice and find out together how to recognize the inimitable quality of a genuine leather bag, even better if Made in Italy like all our models!


Here are some simple tips to appreciate the quality of a genuine leather bag!
If you already know genuine leather fashion accessories, you will know perfectly well the value they can offer you both in terms of style and manufacturing quality. In fact, a genuine leather bag offers anyone who wears it some unique characteristics that we will now see together because they are also what will allow us to distinguish them from those in faux leather. This fashion detail is one of the most precious elements that you can add to your outfits and for this we want you to have the best experience ever wearing it without surprises. Without further ado let's go in search of those features that will allow you to be sure that yours is a genuine leather bag with the ones you can buy on Emporium Italy:

Return your attention to the flesh side of the skin
Technically, the skin has two different sides which are called:
- flower side (which is nothing but what you see externally)
- flesh side (it is the hidden side of the skin)
By carefully observing the flesh side of the leather bag you are evaluating, you will be able to recognize if it is genuine leather only if the hidden part of your bag does not have the typical mesh fabric of fake leather. In fact, by placing your attention in the most hidden corners, if you don't find any fabric filament protruding from the heart of the leather, you will almost be sure that it is a handcrafted bag in genuine leather.
You will have to sharpen your eyes but this evaluation will leave no way out for fake leather because only real leather is made up of 100% animal fibers which therefore do not require any addition of fabric.

Take advantage of your sense of smell to savor real leather.
This is perhaps the oldest advice ever but also the one that can't make you go wrong because real leather has an unmistakable smell. As much as we may try to artificially imitate this unmistakable perfume, no one can succeed because each skin has unique characteristics deriving from the processing, conservation and many small details that are among the secrets of the expert craftsmen who make them. Trust your sense of smell, it can't be wrong!

Follow the next articles of the Emporium Italy blog to discover other useful tips that will allow you to immediately recognize a real handcrafted leather bag.
Until next time!