Leather is leather, PU a leather is plastic!

What does PU stand for?
It often used to be called ‘faux’ leather, presumably in the hope that a lot of people wouldn’t know the meaning of ‘faux’.

Sometimes it's called vegan leather which means it's plastic .

I bought a bag for my recent holiday on the understanding that it was leather. I was so disappointed when it arrived and I found that it was plastic.

Said bag has now been dispatched to the back of the wardrobe - I did use it on holiday but it really made me hot and irritable as it was a 'stylish' rucksack. Won't be making that mistake again - I would sooner have had a woven fabric one, at least it would have allowed for the circulation of air.

I totally agree and am sick and fed up of it. I went into a store and saw a lovely handbag. The label stated leather and there was even that funny jigsaw shaped leather sample attached to the bag.

I can smell leather a mile off and knew this was not leather. There was nothing on the label to say it was PU but I found, tucked away behind the zipped pocket, was a very small tag that said PU.

Surely this is false advertising and is illegal especially when the price reflects it should be leather. So many pairs of shoes, purses, jackets state leather when it is PU. I will never buy anything leather I want online as I do need to smell it first.

It's so convincing but doesn't stretch and causes sweating with shoes..