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Crafted from genuine leather, the Colombo from Italia in Progress offers protection, security, and good looks. Internally, the travel bag has plenty of space, plus inside and outside pockets with zipper pulls Read More
stefspenseNot really, it is a legitimate and very specific color in Italian (a shade of dark brown). I see how it might sound offensive to a foreigner, but strictly speaking it is just a color and it has no other implication whatsoever. it can safely be used as a color in any situation where you need to describe exactly that color.
"Genuine leather construction"
So this is the "third grade" Corrected Grain aka "Genuine Leather" (as opposed to first grade/best Full Grain or 2nd best, Top Grain) ?
At prices afforded to be sold like this..indeed, this is "Made in Italy" (likely in Tuscany, by cheap Chinese labor workers..as confided to me by an Italian signorina leather merchant at Loggia del Porcellino/Pig Market, near Ponte Vecchio in Florence).
And once again, posting an article that perpetuates a myth and that is a testimony to how widespread the myth is, does not make a myth true.
Specifically, quotes from your post, "Full grain leather is always the premium, best leather available, guaranteed," and "genuine leather is definitely swimming very close to the bottom" are NOT TRUE. There is no _term_ "genuine leather" that describes a specific grade of leather. It is the most general description that only signifies that it is, in fact, leather—like saying "real beef" without specifying which cut. Professional manufacturers of leather goods do not find this term useful at all because it doesn't describe anything but the fact that this is not "vegan leather" or "leatherette". Even if such a grading did exist, for example, in the United States (which it doesn't except for "useful posts all over the internet"), other countries would not be obligated to use a U.S. nomenclature.
Once again, https://nstarleather.wordpress.com/2018/05/31/the-grades-of-leather-hierarchy-youve-probably-read-about-is-a-myth/