An Evaluation: Leather and Lace

Somewhere along the like, leather stopped being completely hard. It can still be hard, but it also, perfectly capable of softness, a change really in our perception, more than anything else. There was a time where leather-as-fashion was pigeonholed to the tough, rebellious, and far from mainstream; contrast that to now, where leather is  most perfectly paired with delicate lace, or even dramatically beautiful floral embroidery.