Vintage Leather Clothing Buy - Jackets, Skirts, and Fashion Accessories From Italian Tannery Era
Leather garment production in fashion houses moved through distinct phases after World War II. The Italian tanneries of Santa Croce sull'Arno near Florence supplied much of European couture leather through the 1970s - a region tanning since the thirteenth century using vegetable bark processes that produced a suppleness and aging quality that chrome-tanned leather, which took over through the 1980s, does not replicate. Vintage leather clothing buy searches are often reaching into this Italian tannery output: Versace leather trouser suits from 1989, Claude Montana biker jackets from 1982, Helmut Lang compressed lambskin from 1994. Buy vintage leather jackets online and the weight difference from current production is immediate. Vintage leather fashion accessories - belts, cuffs, crossbody straps - carry the same vegetable-tan quality in smaller form. Authentic vintage leather buy decisions here are supported by construction and provenance documentation on every piece.
