"It's vintage Coach all the way baby." My feelings exactly! Have you watched Tanner Leatherstein's channel? He is a great source of info on leather as he takes apart all kinds of bags and explains the quality, cost per materials and more. He himself is a trained leather worker. Great video!
YEEEES! Those of us who are familiar with Coach vintage KNEW!😂😜 This was SO well done, Autumn.👏🏽👏🏽 Thank you for allowing us to "geek out" along with you as you deep dive into all of this. THOROUGHLY enjoyed this video!
Autumn, I love your chanel and your handbags. Don't take it personally, but I would like for you to experiment with your sunglasses. I think you would look amazing in a honey color shade.
As of late, the price of vintage Coach bags have sure sky rocketed. Wish I would have shopped them preloved several years ago! Informative video - thanks.
"live your most luxurious life within your budget" now that's a great tag line Autumn👍 Appreciate that you had various leather examples to show us. Well done.
I was told Coach's Gloved-Tanned leather is a special process that's similar to the process used in making and conditioning a baseball glove. Like a baseball glove, the leather gets softer and my flexible over time. This explains why vintage Coach bags hold such great leather qualties.
I have a completely different perspective on the subject because of you, thank you for expanding my awareness on this and being so captivating at the same time
"It's vintage Coach all the way baby!" Absolutely LOVE this and agree, Autumn! My vintage Coach bags don't compare to anything else I own. I would also love to know the process for glovetanned leather, especially how they did it in the past vs now. Maybe they will see this video and share some of the process with us all! 👀❤️❤️
Autumn, so glad your video popped up on my phone. Lost you shortly after your move to Oregon. I'm a handbag lover and really enjoyed this info, am also a vintage Coach fan.
I'm geeking out on all this leather knowledge! I love my vintage Coach bag (and Coach in general). My ex husband bought it for me in 1987 and now it's vintage and just as gorgeous as ever!
Very concise and well researched. Thanks for the information. It would have taken far too much time to learn this on my own. Thanks for doing the heavy lifting.
Thank you for the info! I learned a little about leather from a former boss I had. She knew her stuff! We worked in a store. Let’s say a woman came in with a leather jacket. I’d be all dreamy about it. She’d say “it’s junk leather”. Then she’d explain why. She taught me all about Coach and Dooney. This was way back in the early 90s. …….. Where I live now they had a tannery. It closed before I moved here. Apparently it had to shut down because they let all the leather dye go into the creek which lead to Lake Erie here in NYS. You hear endless stories about the tannery and the glue factory next to it. …… I have watched videos by a leather guy, can’t remember his name. He will take a purse apart, mostly high end, and explain if it’s quality or junk. Keep on teaching us! ❤️
Great video Autumn! I will say the title had me 😆 As you say near the end there is so much out there about leathers and SO MANY types, it gets confusing! You learn so much when you make these kind of videos so thank you for sharing with us. Also, thank you for the kind shoutout to my video ☺
Thank you. :) The sentiment of the title is certainly debatable but makes sense to me in the context of how I explained it. Yes, I learned so much but there's still so much more to learn. Your Hermes leather video was fabulous. Very helpful.
I also often wonder what the material of the handbags is actually made of. Often the coating and paint is so thick that you can no longer see the leather underneath. I also find the question of how the bag is made interesting. I watched some videos of handbags being produced. I was disappointed at how much glue, and other materials are used for reinforcement (bonded leather, paper, cardboard, plastic?). This makes me want to cut the bags apart like Tanner Leatherstein. (Sometimes his videos are too fast). Wouldn't it be nice if the companies showed us exactly how the bag is made? Thank you for your interesting video! Your handbag collection is amazing!
I look forward to all your videos. I learn so much good info from you. Thanks for all your hard work. I'm a Coach girl and I miss them using the old gloved tanned leather.
Great video Autumn! No one has ever been able to figure out what “glovetanned leather” actually is. I do remember reading long ago that Coach developed a technique to make leather goods with leather that will break in like a baseball glove, hence the term “glovetanned leather”.
Excellent video - prompted me to take a second look at all my Coach and Dooney and Bourke bags that I purchased in the early ’80s and ’90s - they are little gems now 😁 You would not believe the styles -leather quality and metal accessories on a vintage Dooney and Bourke - excellent compared to the shabby bags they make today - which look old-fashioned and poorly made! I am giving the luxury bags a rest and pulling out vintage 😊
Dooney and Bourke was known back in the day for their All Weather Leather bags and their Pebble leather but now they have their Florentine leather line of bags.
Great video, Autumn! I learned a lot about the various kinds of leather watching your informative video. Thank you for all your research and explanations among the different types of leather. As for glove tanned leather, I think I read somewhere it was supposed to feel like a baseball glove or something alone those lines.
👋🏾👋🏿👋🏼Hey There Autumn, these videos are truly quenching my thirst to be educated about Coach and different types of leathers. Thank You. The video regarding different types of Hermes leather by Caleb Snow( I don't know if that is the last name)I know you said you would link it, but I don't see it, I would like to view it, Thanks Again😎
Hey there, Autumn. Another master class video that I find very fascinating. Your teaching roots really shine in these videos. Thanks so much for sharing!
I think you just opened Pandora’s box on leathers! Great primer and such good information about a (maybe purposefully) confusing area. Vintage coach is seriously good leather.
This was a great introduction to all the intricacies of leather. This took a lot of work to dig through all of the available information and to weed out a lot of the nonsense. It definitely shows in the quality of this video! Thank you so much for sharing this with us (and all the eyecandy) and have a lovely weekend!
I own both Hermes and Coach and I agree! I live in my couch bags tho I own Hermes bags. At the very least they are on par! Especially 90s to 2000s coach leather.
This was super interesting! Thank you. Dooney and Bourke also advertises Saffiano leather. Did this kind of leather just become a common type as opposed to brand specific? Or are these companies related? I swear i have seen the term saffiano elsewhere😊. As always, fantastic info😀love your channel!
Prada is the one that made Saffiano leather famous. Not sure if they developed it or just used it first in handbags. I'm also not sure if they have a copyright on calling it Saffiano. I've seen similar leathers used by other brands but don't know if they can call it Saffiano. I haven't looked into that but it's a good question.
@AutumnBeckman Thank you! I must have missed you talking about it. BTW, I enjoy your channel very much! You're one of the few RU-vid channels about handbags that my husband will watch with me. Keep up the good work! 😊
still many questions unanswered but one thing for sure hermes, chanel and the like sell their leather goods at exorbitant prices when you can get the same quality from other brands for a much much less price. i bought an 8x6 inches full grain smooth leather bag from a local tannery in my country, very good quality, and it costs 128 us dollars only if converted from the local currency.
Keep in mind that Hermes used to make wonderfull saddles and still do for Versailles Equestrian Theatre. They have worked closely with craftsmen all over the world. They also use the 'saddle stitch'for their bags and their selection for leather is very strict. Both brands stand for quality and craftmanship 💗
Coach leather is the bomb. Also their cleaning for you is so great. I use that service from Coach and well worth it Have a beautiful day Ty very informative channel I love watching ❤
I have soooo many bags I haven't shown you guys yet including nearly 100 Coach bags, most of which I purchased to use in my Coach video series, restore, then resell.
Great informative video. I think Coach has fabulous leather and I have had every designer leather good. It certainly holds its own against the big boys! I love you Bonnie cashin bag you showed at the end. Definitely hard to find!
Thank you. I lucked out on finding that courier bag in such great shape but I also payed up for it. ;) It's my second most expensive (in terms of what I paid) Coach bag!
I had to catch up on some of your videos and this might be out of context for this video but I wanted to keep it in one comment. Re:My Abusive Father Died || Complicated Experience with Death of an Abusive Parent I think anyone who is dealing with being in a toxic relationship, or not realising that they are in a toxic one needs to watch this. My condolences for the memories of your father that had a positive contribution. Family can be the hardest to truly distance yourself from, especially when you've grown up with them being part of your life. My experience that really resonated with your story is the people that I have let into my life, really unconditionally, but disrespectfully exploit my empathy and generosity. It took me a while for them to get to my breaking point, and I did exactly what you did, to just burn that bridge altogether. They still linger and oftentimes I would get a message about how they missed me, but it always carried a conditional request of some sort, be it asking for my time, money or a safe environment. I learned to channel that and let them serve as a reminder why I need to keep my distance. I don't think you were worried about your father's occasional taunts of bumper sticker messages and the creepy voicemails, I think they helped served as a reminder why he no longer deserves your respect. Re: One Year After Quitting Teaching and Starting My Own Business Thank you so much for sharing your journey, I am going through the exact situation and the unknown is scary. However, after much perseverance, things are starting to fall into place. If anyone hasn't seen the video, I highly recommend watching for some moral support in getting through curve balls and lemons that life really throws at you, I mean like Miss Trunchbull style shot put. Re: This video Your videos are always so relatable and I always need to tell myself to watch it until the end before rambling in the comments of things you might have missed because you're always so thorough with your research!! Box leather isn't actually exclusive to Hermès, Celine and Chloé, Dior have all used this in their collections. Another fun fact about the "graining" is that, natural grains are a result of the shrinking process when drying from the wet state, hence why the hide is also supple is the more it shrinks, the more it's scrunched up revealing the textural and characteristics of the skin. That is also why Box leather is so coveted because the skin has to be near blemish free during and post processing as each time it is 'ironed' the process has a chance to scuff, mark or unevenly colour the leather. So another leather that wasn't mentioned by Hermès is the Barènia, which were used for their saddles, and their first ever leather was untreated, vegetable tanned calfskin leather produced in the town of Barr in the northeastern part of France, and the reason why it's called Barènia. I think all leathers are now by-products due to the movement for fashion houses to achieve sustainability. Even with the exotics, which is why they have to all carry a CITES certification when sold to a consumer. At least, that's the goal of Animal welfare and ethics. I love Loewe leathers, it is an understated brand that has been around as long as Hermès, and their leathers are also quite notably luxurious. Although they haven't branded their own leather yet, you can see that it's not a two minute craft. Sorry about the long comment! But I didn't want to blow up your inbox with three posts, when you could get a big fat one per above. Your content is absolutely worth pouring your efforts into. Also to respond to the one about your family members/ close friends not understanding RU-vid as a full time career. Remember how long it took you to pick up something new, it's scary for them to open up to new ideas, give them time, they're no spring chicken anymore. As a teacher myself (in a past life) adults are the hardest to teach because they have so much going on there's hardly any space (and time) for them to give to learning anymore 🤥
So informative. Thank you for all the research! I really enjoyed this leather education. And yes, there are a lot of unanswered questions and ambiguities (which is likely intentional on the part of various brands), but one thing is really clear to me after watching - it's no wonder that after becoming a huge fan of Coach glovetanned leather in the mid 1980s, and continuing to collect bags ever since, nothing has ever been as good, as beautiful or as durable for me as those original Coach bags.
Hello Autumn, thanks for making such great content. I don't really have a lot of luxury handbags but I do have a lot of fine jewellery pieces. I would love something like your handbag collection organizer but for jewellery. Is that something that you would do in the future? or would it be easy to adapt with your template? Just a thought I have each time you show your organizer promo.
I have that on my to do list as well as a few other things but likely won't release any new products until early fall because of things we have going on between then and now.
Thank you for sharing this is very good information. Do you have a recommendation for cleaning and conditioning product for leather and canvas handbags? Thank you
Impeccable review: I agree 1000%- COACH has always been top tier literally especially the LEGACY collection- “Save those Coins Ladies” & pay for your leather bags that will last you for yrs to come- Hermes is not worth it unless u get every piece insured, & you don’t want bags you can’t enjoy but always have to baby❤
"ALL Weather Leather" (AWL) by Dooney and Bourke, which was a very special naturally "shrunken" leather (same as Henry's). I'm not sure if their current AWL is processed exactly the same as it was decades ago, but it's still advertised as "shrunken" with an aniline finish.
Vintage Coach leather is the best I’ve ever experienced, problem is you have to a body builder to carry one of those bags comfortably. 😜I’m exaggerating but they are crazy heavy, even before you put anything in them. I still love them though. I am TEAM COACH, have been since I was 14.
I was just at garage sale where the gal had several vintage Coach bags The solid color all leather ones! I'm not fan of the pebbled leather bags Smooth ones all the way! No huge logos
thank you So Much Autumn I think I get the new suede rouge 39 my SA said do get it as we can not clean it and I thing it most expensive rouge 39 it $1, 142 so we see what do you thinK? thanks for help Autumn
Is that the peanut color suede bag? I haven't seen it in person but the photos look beautiful. The rogue bags have been done in suede before. You might look at the preloved market to see what else is available and what the prices are before deciding which to purchase.
Excellent video - so much good info. I totally agree with you, I think Coach puts out some of the best leather on the market. But I do love the LV vachetta.
I never got a super clear definition of it. My understanding is it's vegetable tanned but fats are added during that process. Here's a more in-depth look I just found. www.carlfriedrik.com/magazine/vachetta-leather
Excellent video it answered a lot of questions I had. I was recently looking at FLORENTINE LEATHER by dooney and burke and pebbled leather, and they appear to be better leather than coach, but not that stylish plus the bags are heavier.
@@AutumnBeckman thank you but the tanner leatherstein dude just tested a dooney and burke all weather leather bag and you would be shocked! I recently got a new bag and coin purse from that brand Now i need a florentine bag. 😃
I don’t think the words “glove tanned leather” mean anything. My vintage bags are, like you showed, beautiful full thickness leather with minimal finishes. Yet my most recent coach bag, which is similarly stamped “glove tanned leather”, feels like plastic. Honest to doG, I had to double check the new bag!
The newer leathers stamped glovetanned are definitely different from Coach's original glovetanned leather. Maybe the new ones start with that process but then they add pigments and coatings.
