Sentence examples for leather shortage from inspiring English sources

A leather shortage?

Add to this the shadow over relations with China, where many furniture companies have invested heavily in factories, and a possible leather shortage because of the foot-and-mouth outbreak, and it is easy to see why many at High Point allowed hopes to rise with the Greenspan-induced market blip.

As Sara G. Forden relates, in "The House of Gucci" (2000), in the mid-thirties countries in the League of Nations protested Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia by imposing sanctions against Italian industry; Gucci, facing a leather shortage, was forced to innovate.

Nearly five million animals in Britain and hundreds of thousands elsewhere in Europe have been killed or await execution, resulting in meat, dairy and leather shortages worldwide, not to mention the tanning of the political hide of the British prime minister, Tony Blair.

Applied to canvas, it had been used to decorate luggage that couldn't be made with leather during wartime shortages.

There had been a sandal cult among rebellious healthy livers from the 1920s onwards, and leather and rubber shortages during the war had revived the European interest in folk- tradition wooden clogs, or shoes with wood soles; postwar examples were common in Scandinavia, Germany and eastern Europe.

But a far greater problem is the shortage of materials, including leather (reported Mr. Altuzarra).

The recent lines have occasioned much curiosity from tourists and Parisians alike, causing some to wonder whether Vuitton is engineering a shortage to increase the lust for its leather.

Manufacturing leather furniture is labor-intensive, and Natuzzi's impoverished home turf has no shortage of potential workers available for training.

Fabric shortage.

Fixing a shortage of heating oil is like confronting a shortage of brisket, they said; you have to kill the whole steer, which will also produce hamburger and sirloin, along with leather.