#old leather

[secosmolhadoseafins]

[madravenprincess]

made this corset top out of a coat and a old corset

[apologize-to-no-one]

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[eurpoastitan]

I’m so excited for next semester. I’m finally on campus at a four year university. The anxiety is raging but so is the anticipation. I’m most alive when I’m learning. Fingers crossed for the next adventure 🤎🤎🤎

[acti-veg]

do you think it’s ok to donate leather products to charity shops? Wouldn’t whoever bought them also be advertising their use?

I think that’s a legitimate concern, but I’d argue that good it could do for someone who really needs them outweighs the small amount of harm that has could be caused by advertising or normalising animal product use. I think this one comes down to realism over moral purity, and throwing them away leads to waste which also causes harm.

[acti-veg]

Hey! love your blog! I was wondering if I could get your opinion on something. I'm mostly vegan (using up old non-vegan stuff like bodywash and makeup). I have a leather jacket that's been passed on through my dad's family for three generations. A person in this vegan groupchat got mad cause 'No true vegan still wears leather'. It's 40 years old and robust and warm as hell, and when I mentioned that he kicked me out of the chat. What do you think? can a vegan wear old/passed down leather?thanks!

Hey, thank you for the kind words. Those vegans don’t sound like they reacted in a particularly helpful way here, emotions can run high with animal issues but they should have been willing to at least have a discussion with you about it. I have answered a general question on what to do with old leather items here, but yours is a bit more complex with it being an item or some sentimental value.

Personally I can see why you’d want to keep it, it has a lot of sentimental value for you and it has all that family history tired into it. Still, for the reasons I’ve discussed in that article, I think there are some problems with wearing it publicly. The harm has been done of course, but you don’t want to advertise the use of animal skin or tacitly support it by wearing it. It was the result of animal exploitation, and by wearing it I think we communicate the wrong message to people. If it’s not something you can afford to replace that would of course be different, but I think it’s something you should look to find a vegan alternative for it you can.