"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!

"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.

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.

hermes is just marketing. my coach bags are way better than any of my new chanel bags. from the stitching to the leather texture its a 10 out of 10

I truly appreciate the extensive research behind this video

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

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.

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.

Love all your videos, but this is by far my favorite one! Thank you for researching and sharing all of this great information!

😍 I see bags in this video that I don't think you have shown us before!!

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.

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!

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! ❤️

"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! 👀❤️❤️

This is great knowledge to share! I'm hoping some of it sunk in as I'm painting our hallway!

A wonderfully comprehensive video and another which needs to be kept by us all for future reference! Thank you for the video!

Thank you so much. I love learning and appreciate all your hard work. ❤

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.

Fantastic video Autumn! Sometimes the deeper we dive the more confusing it gets hahah. Really loved all the info in this video!

Whew. I love your extensive reviews, the very best! Thank you very much! 🎉Bravo! 👏🏼👏🏼👍🏽

You put so much work in it! GREAT!!!!! 🙂👏

Loved this! All the information you shared was so interesting. Answered many questions about leather I didn’t know I even had. Thank you

I love your videos! I always learn so much!

Love learning more and nerding out on this topic 😊

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”.

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!

Thank you so much for this great series. Appreciate it!

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!

Now that was an avalanche of info Ms. Beckman, you certainly did your research! Thank you for quite an educational vid.

Thank you, Autumn!

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 ☺

LOVED this video,Autumn..it must have taken you a lot of time to research this,but it was absolutely worth it I think!🙏🏻🥰

Thank you Autumn. Fascinating. xxx

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.

Yes, this is very informative! 😊. Thanks for the research!

Another interesting and informative video, thanks Autumn 💕

Omg I was looking for a video like this

Great deep dive!

What a wealth of knowledge! Great information. ❤

Wow! I recognise great teaching when I see it. Thank you.

I’m a Coach stan, I shop at Coach Outlet once a month and the pebbled leather is sooooooo good and buttery

great video!! loved the info ty

Thank you Professor Beckman, very informative and interesting video. Best, Jane

Terrific and magnificent video! So educational. You are a terrific teacher ❤❤❤

Such beautiful bags! Am sure going to buy vintage Coach

Great video!!! Loved learning about leather!

Great video. Thank you for all your research.

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.

VERY informative…. Thank you 🙏!

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.

Thanks!

Great information. Love the history.

The information that you provided in this video is a great help. Thank you for sharing your knowledge👜

If I knew then what I know now I wish I had my original vintage coach bag from the late 70’s.

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 😊

😊 I am totally a big fan of Coach Handbags/Backpack/some of their perfume.

Dooney and Bourke florentine comes to mind ❤

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.

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!

i so love this video, it is such a diverse world out there in terminology, but do they mean the same thing. fasinating a thousand thumbs up

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.

How do you feel about the leather used in the DUYP bags… noted as Togo leather?

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!

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❤

I love the leather on my now vintage Coach bags. I also have bags of exotic skins which are very old.

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.

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 ❤

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

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.

Right ❤

I have a degree in fashion and just learned more in this video than 4 years in fashion school about leather.

Love this ❤❤❤

"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.

Great and informative video.

Zermatt is brand name for tannery Hass, it is chrome tanned, semi aniline, corrected leather

Another awesome video 😁

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!

Great video 😊💚

👋🏾👋🏿👋🏼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😎

Autumn what is ur opinion about the dior scandal in italy?

For full grain leather, Go Forth Goods and KMM & Co are wonderful, handmade leather bags made in GA

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 KZfaq 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 🤥

Great informative video. Tfs😊

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.

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

I like this. It’s an education in leather ❤

Great overview of leather tanning and finishing without getting booged up in marketing/sales name that don't mean anything.

Move over Tanner Leatherstein! Autumn is in the house 🏠 ❤

Really great video!Technical terms mixed in with marketing terms make things confusing. Vintage coach collector on YT linked to a really comprehensive article one time about the evolution of coach leathers over the years that alluded to the glove tanned leather basically being a term coined by Coach to represent genuine or split leather. For me that tracks. Coach still makes high quality bags but I don’t find the glove tanned leather itself to be as nice as the vintage full grain leathers. I have to think that if Coach was still using full grain leather they would be highlighting it not hiding it behind a cryptic term that only they use. Then again exclusivity may be a factor 🤷🏼‍♀️

Cool video! I didn't quite catch, what *is* vachetta? I mean, what makes something 'vachetta'? Is it the way it is tanned?

Hahaha 😂 great video I can imagine your brain 🧠 exploding 🤯 with all the contradictions and more questions. Definitely a whirlwind. Thanks so much for all the effort TFS 👛🛍️🚢🦆🙏

I agree Coach leather especially the older ones is top grade . But people with the money bye Hermes because of the name and the statis of it . Great marketing on Hermes part . These people would think Coach was too low brow for them .

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

I believe buffed leather is same as nubuck, buffering or sanding is process that creates nubuck. Crazy Horse is waxed nubuck

I didn't see the Caleb Snell link; did I miss it?

An excellent video, thank you. Maybe a colab with Tanner leatherstein 🤗💜

Wow. Just Wow! It is all I can say. Your research is fantastic. :-)

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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!