A real cod piece. (fish skin leather)
Economist (US), The, December, 1990
WHAT retailers really need to pull in the shoppers this Christmas is a fad-any old fad, even the most ridiculous one. And at the eleventh hour one has turned up: it's fish skin.
Leather made by tanning fish skins -the trade calls it peau de mer, which sounds classier-is already showing up in the boutiques on Manhattan's chic East Side as watch straps, belts, wallets and earrings. Out west, dress cowboy boots are being made from it (the chic cowboy is wearing sea bass). Bill Blass, a mass couturier, has 100 fish-leather swim suits hitting the stores.
Is fish leather really about ...
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