</p <p---</p <h2If It Seems to be too Good to be True, It Probably is - Except This Time</h2 <pJoin Our Newsletter Now For Free. The suitcase is not lightweight, but it's not too heavy either. The interior is just one simple wide open space with two interior straps to hold clothes in place like they used to make them. And then, completely unnecessarily, I lined the suitcase interior with tough, durable pigskin. If they shave all of it off or split the hide in half, that's called genuine or split leather. We WANT as much grain on our suitcases and other baggage as we can get.We want it all. Most companies buy low quality, heavily scarred-up leather, shave off the scars and blemishes (along with all of the grain) to save as much money as they can by being able to use more of the hide. Therefore, we must select three hides with almost no imperfections to make each leather suitcase. You can imagine the size of the vehicle we needed to rent to fit all of our things. </p <p---</p <h2Functionality</h2 <pOne time, we were taking a two month trip around the world, filming a documentary on the making of our canvas line, Mountainback. Buy Ld Cigarette 100s Club Gold 2021 Recent Reviews Best Perfume Brands Chanel New Womens Perfume 2021 10 Best Chanel Perfumes For Women With Class 2025 Australia Cigarettes Rewards Catalog It is scarce for leather luggage to have this sort of serious consideration, but I wanted you to have the best leather luggage set you can get. It is the right balance to make it challenging to fit 50 lbs.(23 kgs) into it. This would have stressed out any traveler with lesser luggage, but not us. Well, when we got to Australia, low and behold, they only had tiny little vehicles to rent. So I took the two removable belts off our suitcases and strapped most of the luggage to the cute little roof rack. Using those is like putting a cardboard hatch on a billion-dollar submarine. The grain helps it age handsomely and stay water resistant (cows are waterproof, right?). We also had 2 large carry-ons per person. Once the hatch breaks, the submarine is worthless. Become an expert in leather and laughs - it's too good to be true, but it is - sign up now.</p And the body is mostly handsewn with heavy-duty waxed boot cord for added strength. See All Our New Designs, Real Stories, unprofessionalism, Bad Jokes, and More Delivered Straight To Your Inbox. And about 3 weeks into it, the suitcase handle broke. The handle is now bolted onto the leather suitcase and hand-sewn with boot-cord to the body.