Thanks to the development of advanced technologies, the modern fashion industry creates a wide variety of artificial materials. Often, only professional can distinguish them from natural ones, especially when it comes to synthetic fur. Therefore, if you decide to purchase such an expensive thing as a natural sheepskin coat, you need to approach the matter responsibly so as not to become the owner of a fake.
10 ways to distinguish
Consider that the cost of a sheepskin coat made of genuine leather is never less than 20 thousand rubles. Suspiciously low price is a serious reason to think.
It will not be superfluous to take along a girlfriend or someone from relatives who will not let you lose your guard and will remind you of the various nuances of purchase.
- First of all, find the label on the sheepskin coat (it is usually neatly sewn into the seam from the inside of the thing) and carefully study it. It should contain information about the composition of the product, as well as tips on care.
- Stroke the surface of the product with your hand: there will always be an imprint of the palm on genuine leather
- Then evaluate the sheepskin visually. It should not be worn, despite the fact that the thing could be stored folded.
- Turn the product inside out: natural fur is always uniform, evenly dyed, the villi should be directed in one direction, as a rule, from top to bottom. This fur is soft to the touch and pulled out with difficulty. Synthetic usually climbs beams. If you set fire to several villi, then feel the smell of scorched wool (in the case of a natural thing) or the characteristic synthetic smell (of an artificial thing).
Try to push the villi apart: under a natural sheepskin coat under a nap, you will see a leather base - core, while the artificial one - is plain fabric.
- Try to crush clothes. On natural sheepskin folds spread out instantly, but the artificial material will not soon become homogeneous.
- Find open skin sections (on a collar or cuff sleeves) and carefully examine them. On natural fur, they are not completely even, even with perfectly dressed skin.
- Also appreciate the seams. They should be hidden, hidden under the skin. Sheepskin quality stitched as carefully as possible, fragments of clothing are connected very tightly.
- Finally, smell the product. Quality thing has the smell of leather and sheepskin. If you feel the chemical smell of paint - in front of you is clearly an artificial thing.
- Try to explore the resistance of clothing. Drop a drop of water to the surface: water will roll off the skin, and synthetics will immediately absorb it.
- Estimate the weight of the product. Artificial sheepskin coats for the most part are very light. A natural thing will not weigh less than two kilograms.
What if there are doubts?
If you have thoroughly checked the thing you plan to buy, then consider such an interesting point. When inspecting a single barely visible defects on the material (veinlets, scratches, etc.), it is not necessary to sin on the manufacturer. On the contrary, it proves that you have a natural thing.
In fact, lambs (namely, their skins are most often sewn with sheepskin coats) are not as calm as it is commonly believed: they often bite one another, leaving wounds on the body, and, accordingly, these “war wounds” will be noticeable on the sheepskin coat.
In the process of producing natural sheepskin these small damages are masked by staining. That is why things of light shades are made of higher quality fur, while the dark paint hides defects better, so the fur on such sheepskin coats may be slightly inferior in quality.
