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One of my hobbies is leatherwork, and I use this website, which is American www.leatherworker.net
Someone has just started a thread asking for advice on how to trim his new flatscreen TV set with exotic leather - ostrich, lizard, alligator, or python
The fact that some of these will cost $120 per square foot doesn't seem to bother him
Am I being snobbish in finding this tacky?
Or does this just show the difference in British and American tastes?
Exotic animal skins/scales/fur all look better on their original owners in my opinion. To use them for 'trimming a TV set' is just tacky.
OK, so leather is also a skin and, yes, I wear leather shoes. I do not regard that as being hypocritical because leather comes from animals that are killed for food - not for fun - and it would be disrespectful to that animal to waste any of its by-products.
Exotic animal skins/scales/fur all look better on their original owners in my opinion. To use them for 'trimming a TV set' is just tacky.
OK, so leather is also a skin and, yes, I wear leather shoes. I do not regard that as being hypocritical because leather comes from animals that are killed for food - not for fun - and it would be disrespectful to that animal to waste any of its by-products.