How to identify genuine leather shoes

Nowadays, many people buy leather shoes, and they pay attention to genuine leather shoes, because genuine leather shoes are more breathable, less likely to rub the heels, and more comfortable to wear. However, people are not particularly familiar with the difference between genuine leather and artificial leather, so they are easily deceived by sellers. In order to prevent you from being deceived by merchants, today I will teach you how to identify genuine leather shoes.

1. Taste. This is the first choice. If you don't know whether it is real leather, bend down and smell it. The smell of real leather shoes is the stinky smell of animal fur, while the imitation leather such as artificial leather has a pungent smell of chemicals, which is a strange smell and even makes your head hurt.

2. Look at the pores. Press a small piece of leather with your fingers. Real leather has pores, which are the sweat pores where the animal's hair was located when it was alive. The pores of pigskin shoes are coarser. When artificial leather and imitation leather are stretched and pressed, they show texture.

3. Overall touch and color. When you touch it gently, genuine leather feels smooth, delicate and textured, while artificial leather and imitation leather feel stiff. In terms of color, genuine leather is shiny and has a darker color, while artificial leather and imitation leather are dull and dark.

4. The feeling when wearing it on your feet. Genuine leather shoes are comfortable and soft to walk in, because they stretch and deform appropriately according to the force we step on the road to protect the feet; while artificial leather and imitation leather shoes are obviously very hard and uncomfortable to walk in.

5. Genuine leather shoes can be easily stretched or even deformed. The editor once bought a pair of boots, but the size was too small. However, since they were made of a whole piece of cowhide, after wearing them for a day, the size was obviously stretched to become the right size and very comfortable.

6. Some genuine leather shoes will retain a small piece of leather on the shoes for consumers to identify. Then, take this piece off and burn it with fire. If there is a smell similar to that of burning hair, then it is a real leather shoe.