Leather labels
What the FTC Leather Guides say about the word leather on a shoe.
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The word leather
The FTC Leather Guides say it is "unfair or deceptive to use the unqualified term 'leather' or other unqualified terms suggestive of leather to describe industry products unless the industry product so described is composed in all substantial parts of leather." Material words on a shoe are the maker's label, not ours. We never say any shoe is leather.
Guides
Leather pumps: what the word on the label means
A style, plus a label claim.
The FTC Leather Guides for shoes, in plain words
16 CFR Part 24, part by part.
Reading a shoe material label, part by part
Upper, lining, outersole.
Genuine leather: what the FTC Guides say
Not defined in Part 24.
Bonded leather and the FTC Guides
Not represented as leather.
Start with leather pumps
A style, plus a label claim.
