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Made for business trips and days at the office, the Giulio briefcase by Italia in Progress uses genuine calf leather in a variety of colors. Go for tried-and-true black, brown, or cognac; or opt for a bolder look with blue, red, or green Read More
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Like these so much I bought 3 more for a total of 4 of different colors. Used this for the 10 day Japan trip last month and the bag held up even in a few days of total downpours without bubbling or any other issues related to water damage. The metal fasteners while looking thin and flimsy is actually quite strong. I was carrying over 4kg worth of stuff and nonstop walking from morning to night everyday. I put so much stuff the bag was bulging a bit but when I returned and took out all the stuff it returned to its original shape. A few cons:
1) The cross sling can be of higher quality which doesn't unravel at the edges.
2) The zipper for the middle pocket if not totally straight aligned can get stuck and tough to open.
I must say for a $100 it happens to be the cheapest bag I've ever bought as I usually get the branded $1500+ stuff but it is downright the most useful for trips where you don't care much about getting your bag ruined by the activities but still travel in style. The waterproof aspect was surprising and a major bonus.
If the leather and quality of construction are good, this is an excellent deal. Unfortunately details in both the Massdrop description and on the manufacturer's website are quite sparse. Reviews seem to be hard to come by as well.
SenorbumThat info is , for the most part, BS. "Genuine leather" does NOT mean split leather. It simply means that it is, in fact, leather as opposed to polyurethane or some other synthetic fake. Something labeled as "genuine leather" can be an artificially finished split with a gake grain, or it can be veg-tanned, aniline dyed full-grain; the only thing "genuine leather" actually tells you is that the material is the skin of a dead animal.
The practice of labelling products as "full grain leather", for example, is virtually unheard of outside the US, and even there it has only caught on fairly recently. Globally, most manufacturers only specify that their goods are actually leather, i.e. genuine. Generally you can expect that only dirt-cheap crap will be made with splits, otherwise you leather products will be full-grain or top-grain (the teo terms are, by the way, also often used synonymously).
Also, there is some really shitty full grain leather around (as "full grain" isn't a measure of quality), so the fact that something is advertised as such says nothing of its quality, only tat it isn't made from split hides. Articles and blog posts line the one you linked are mainly marketing by US manufacturers that use "full grain" labelling to give them an advantage over international producers that don't.