David Ciccone, the founder of the cellphone-focused site MobilityToday.com, points to an extreme example: a $340 leather case with silver accents for the Treo 700, from Vaja (www.vajacases.com).
Brisk industries for recycling and leather, for example, have sprouted among the ward's oil-slicked streets and jury-rigged homes — offering yet another example of how this megalopolis innovates at all levels.
In the early 1990's, General Motors asked a supplier to add a fragrance to a type of leather, for example, because the tanning process left its smell too muted.
The market, which is open daily except Friday and Saturday, has a color-coded system: yellow-dyed leather, for example, is traded separately from white, because it's more expensive to make.
Other airlines also strongly contest the assertion that first class isn't what it used to be, saying that they've poured ample resources into maintaining and improving service with everything from new seats — from cloth to leather, for example, on United — to better menus and wines.
In the leather glove example, a boring headline might read, "Italian leather gloves with fur lining".
While impressive businesses which upcycle wasted dead-stock fabrics into new garments and accessories exist — Reformation, Redun Denim and Deadwood Leather among examples — ultimately, they depend on an unsustainable rate of fashion production and consumption.
A straightforward shift dress with a zip-up triangle panel at the front that can fold down to reveal sheer silk mesh or a sleeveless shell top crafted of crisscrossed sandy denim and buttery leather are examples of the designer's tailoring talents.
They say that the leather handbag, for example, saves as much energy as a flight from London to Paris.
