there is polymer leather which works fine enough, and if you're a futurist and like wacky technology i remember reading about fungal leather as well as leather made from kombucha scoby, both sound weird and cool. using actual skin for clothing is weird but uncool

[–] pedka@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

sorry but these are not as good as real leather

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

true, they are better, because you're not wearing someone else's skin over your own which is kinda weird

[–] pedka@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

i find it nothing else than natural, but i don't want to argue about this. i think that leather is used because it's both strong and nice to touch. if there was another synthetic that could match leather’s durability, feel, and aging, i would use it over leather. that's why i think that lab grown meat could be a good idea