There’s no skirting around the issue: leather is a problematic material, and it’s not one that modern citizens always feel comfortable sporting.
The history of leather clothing, however, is as ancient and storied as one might expect. Our Palaeolithic ancestors would have worn the furs of woolly animals in the winter and the preserved hides of other mammals in the warmer months. The Ancient Greeks belted their Chiton tunics with leather and strutted around the Acropolis in the most basic form of hide-crafted sandals.
