FIREWORKS AND FIREFLIES.
If you understand skins and know what youre buying, you dont have to show off. If you have a brown, beaten-up piece of luggage that happens to be croc, an innocent bystander wouldnt know it, but you would - and your friends might. Skins from salties, especially big ones, make excellent, highly prized leather. Demand for skins (for use in shoes, belts, suitcases, briefcases and handbags), supported a significant crocodile-harvesting industry in northern Australia between the end of World War II and the 1960s. If you understand skins and know what youre buying, you dont have to show off. If you have a brown, beaten-up piece of luggage that happens to be croc, an innocent bystander wouldnt know it, but you would -- and your friends might. Alligator, the most common of the reptile skins, makes a fine, tough, close fibered leather with a scaly surface which can be distinguished from imitations by the fact that the edges of the scales on the genuine leather are slightly undercut. I personally dont wear gold often but when you put it on a chocolate brown deployment claspset leather strap, not sure how you can go wrong. If you thought Bottega Venetas Spring 2010 collection was worth drooling over, feast your eyes on the labels six-piece luggage set made from alligator skin (via luxist). If you understand skins and know what youre buying, you dont have to show off. If you have a brown, beaten-up piece of luggage that happens to be croc, an innocent bystander wouldnt know it, but you would - and your friends might. And having the independence to go where you want to go, when you. Remember those lotion commercials from a few years back that featured an alligator roaming around, showing us all how dry, cracked, and just overall unappealing our skin can look because winter is so desolate. Yes, exotic skins and their less expensive cousins are widely available, agrees Jana Matheson, creative director of Judith Leiber, but its still an insider look, which, seems to make it all the more desirable. Exotic skins - and many more faux exotic skins - can bridge the gap between too much and not enough.