mctreeleth:

mctreeleth:

I keep seeing the leather/pleather vs denim jacket poll over and over again with all different sorts of discourse about how there is no plastic-free pleather and like, that’s TRUE, there isn’t, but honestly I DO think people who don’t want to use animal products* also deserve to look cool

and so my suggestion is that y’all google “waxed cotton jacket” or “waxed canvas jacket” plus like, “motorcycle” or whatever style you think is cool, because there’s a plastic free leather-look material that is strong and durable and waterproof and doesn’t use animal products** AND is plastic free already out there and some of the clothes that you can get made out of it look sick as hell.

*ignoring the fact that most leather is meat by-product that would be going to waste anyway

**except beeswax but if you’re going to object to that then honestly there’s no helping you

waxed cotton looks so good and wears-in to a gorgeous patina and when it loses its finish you can re-wax it and that just makes it look even better and more patinaed instead of flaking off in horrible bits of microplastic leaving you with a ruined piece of clothing