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YN -> RE: Best Lining For A Leather Collar? (6/10/2013 4:48:35 PM)
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"Modern tanneries" are the trouble, (or more correctly the lack of them.)
If treated properly, chrome tanned leather is safe for normal wear if not in direct and continual skin contact, a shoe is an example, though many of the better ones are still lined with a bit of calf, pigskin, etc. in the wear areas on the heels and on the sole, as it is contact with abraded skin which causes the trouble.
However the majority of modern industrial tanning using the chrome process is done in places like Nigeria, Pakistan and Indonesia and there have been various scandals concerning them and their products which often are turned into cheap leather goods, those 20 Euro leather miniskirts and 50 Euro leather motorcycle jackets for examples. Chrome not being properly washed out is only one type of complaint, lead, arsenic and other things are in some dyes or the process.
Next of course is where those medical appliances like prosthetic and splints still must be lined with the vegetable tanned suede, calf, elk, pigskin, etc.
Then as earlier noted a collar is subject to sweat, perfumes, antiperspirants, makeup, etc. and also uses metal furniture in many cases, and between the chemical and electro- chemical reactions over a term, a certain amount of the dyes and any other chemicals with be leached. The vegetable tanned lining, being essentially natural skin in many aspects, will absorb and take the chemical beating instead of the wearer.
Anyway, the question was which collar lining was the best.
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