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12-01-2016 03:56 PM
Remember the coat that was "lovingly" referred to as the "road kill coat" - from several years ago. Well, I bought one when first offered. Not a bad trench once the collar was remove.
It is chilly and overcast here and looked like it might rain again - and I was meeting a friend for lunch at the restaurant down the street.
I put the coat on and looked down ... all the "faux" started flaking off the coat! I never realized that faux leather molted!
12-01-2016 04:04 PM
Its peeling off the backing. Faux leather is simply plastic material fused to a textile. No matter who makes it, its still plastic.
I always chuckle when all designers say how high quality their faux leather is.
12-01-2016 04:35 PM
Just like the flannel-backed plastic tablecloth your grandma used to have.............
12-01-2016 04:36 PM
12-01-2016 04:54 PM
Funny ... by the time I got it into the trash bag, I had a bunch of little black feathery stuff all over the floor by the closset. The "faux" just few off the coat! I had to take out the vacuum to clean it up.
12-01-2016 05:00 PM
@Andreatoo wrote:Are you sure it wasn't faux snake skin?
Funny ... It "had" a surface texture- but nothing that I could identify as snake.
By the time I got it into the trash bag, I had a scattering of little black feathery stuff all over the floor by the closet. It was the weirdest thing to see this "faux" flying off the coat. I had to take out the vacuum to clean it up.
12-01-2016 05:51 PM
i would not consider this a coat that will last a lifetime.
it first appeared in the fall of 2010. if you got 5-6 years of use out of the coat i would say that that was a pretty good investment at $72 or below.
i recently saw a few of these at the rehoboth beach qvc outlet store.
12-01-2016 06:30 PM
@ALRATIBA wrote:Remember the coat that was "lovingly" referred to as the "road kill coat" - from several years ago. Well, I bought one when first offered. Not a bad trench once the collar was remove.
It is chilly and overcast here and looked like it might rain again - and I was meeting a friend for lunch at the restaurant down the street.
I put the coat on and looked down ... all the "faux" started flaking off the coat! I never realized that faux leather molted!
It's an inexpensive faux leather coat. You got 4, 5 years out of it. It wasn't meant to last a lifetime, it was not an investment piece. You got your money's worth.
12-01-2016 09:23 PM
Reminds me of a favorite raincoat I had. It was a fairly expensive designer coat, I forget the name, might have been Yves St. Laurent. It was black and had a shiny patent leather look, It wasn't stiff, but very supple like my best leather. Anyway, I hadn't needed to wear it for some time. I went to put it on and the "coating" was flaking off. I had it for a good 10 years, but I was still disappointed. I never found another one as good a quality to replace it.
12-01-2016 11:18 PM
@lianne wrote:Its peeling off the backing. Faux leather is simply plastic material fused to a textile. No matter who makes it, its still plastic.
I always chuckle when all designers say how high quality their faux leather is.
Me, too. I am not big on leather, anyway, but I definitely will not buy plastic-- er, " faux leather."
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