Should You Bring a Briefcase to a Job Interview?
Career offices name the padfolio first. Here is when a briefcase helps in a job interview, what goes inside, where it sits and how to keep it neat.
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Big Bags Are Back: Buying an English Bridle Leather Briefcase
Oversized bags are back on the SS27 runways. Here is how to buy an English bridle leather briefcase that keeps its shape, plus the accessories to match.
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Ten Million Dollars for a Scratched Handbag
A scuffed, softened prototype handbag sold for $10.1 million. What wear means on bridle leather, and how a bag ages well.
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Inside the Chouara Tannery: Lime, Pigeon Droppings and a Month in the Vats
Inside Fez’s Chouara tannery: a lime and pigeon-dropping soak, a month of natural dyeing, and the artisans who still run the process by hand. Two 2026 reports, and where they disagree.
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Lab-Grown Diamonds Already Had This Argument. Leather Is Next.
Diamond prices, a closing Canadian mine and a cow-cell leather startup show how lab-grown thinking is reaching leather. What a hide has that a stone doesn’t.
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How to Clean Leather the Way Conservators Do, Step by Step
Smithsonian conservators clean a 250-year-old gunboat one square foot an hour. The same least-intervention order works on a leather briefcase, in six steps.
