Large leather vamps demand perfect material because defects can't be cut around like they can in sneakers. Stretching the leather reveals hidden scars invisible on flat skin, forcing manufacturers to source higher-grade, continuous hides or risk halting production.
A shoe like that, in terms of material quality control, is a lot easier because you have so many small pieces. If I have a defect in the middle, I'll just cut around the defect. But that thing here, see the size of that vamp? So if my skin comes in and doesn't have the required quality, I'm gonna have really big problems actually cutting that skin, and my consumption is going to go super high. Sometimes I'm going to be out of leather, then I need to order more leather, they're out of stock. So that's why quality control in leather, in articles like that, is so important, because, you know, you might not have a shot at getting the right leather at the right time again, and you have to stop production. See, he's stretching the leather, right? When you do stretch the skin, the scars appear back. So sometimes the leather, when it's flat, everything is all right. Leather is not only about the finishing, it's also about the raw material. Formal shoes, classical shoes, even more complicated in terms of the grade of leather you got it. So you have no way to kind of defend and go around tons of different small pieces. So I come with a sneaker, I can cut all around this, but if I have a big vent, I'm gonna have a problem.
