How to Spot Fake Chloe Leather | Chloe Calf Skin Leather

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Spotting Fake Chloe Leather

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Leather/colors: The leather of

Chloe handbags

will be high quality. One of the first things you can do, if you have the option of seeing the handbag before buying, (this is not an option obviously when shopping online), simply smell the leather. It should have a rich, layered smell like any quality leather. Fake leather will not have this smell, as well as real leather of lower quality. Low quality leather will have hints of leather mixed with other chemicals. There will be undertones of synthetic material, detectable in three ways: smell, strength and pattern.

The fake chloe leather image is an example of a cheaper leather skin, or possibly fake leather altogether. This images when compared to the authentic leather (above) displays a difference in textures. The fake leather (left red) looks much more stiff, you can almost see that it is a harder material. But the authentic leather looks much more naturally creased and pebbled, and looks like it is much more soft. To re-cap, test the leather for these three variables:

Smell
Strength
Pattern

The first of these we covered. The second method, strength, can be tested by simply standing the bag up and leaving it alone. Because authentic Chloe uses calf for its leather, it is incredibly soft to the touch, and because of this fact, it is weak. An authentic Chloe handbag when left to stand up on its own, should slump in on itself. Whereas a fake handbag, due to phony or lower quality leather, should hold itself up a little better. If the handbag in question seems too firm, that may indicate that it is not calfskin, or high quality leather, and subsequently a fake Chloe handbag.
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Pattern: The leather pattern on a fake Chloe may have an unnatural dotting, or pebbling, as this feature was designed. However, and authentic Chloe with high quality leather will display a natural spotting, (pebbling) pattern (image above) the way an animal in nature would display this. This is common with many fakes that attempt to mirror authentic animal skin patterns like the fake Balenciaga bags. To re-cap:

If the leather does no boast an incredibly rich and layered quality smell, then that should give rise to caution.
If the leather is overly stiff, that should raise a red flag.

Other leather points: Unlike cheaper, lesser brands like ed Hardy, Chloe does not produce their handbags with a sample of the leather as a hangtag etc. Any Chloe bag that comes with sample leather should raise an automatic red flag.
The padlocks that are associated with Chloe should have the same leather on the lock as the handbag itself.

Handles: On an authentic handbag, the handles will generally have an extra layer, or piece of leather associated with them. This is important. We have seen many fake Chloe bags that did not have this extra leather on the handles. However, not all fakes are missing this detail. But of the fakes that have the correct leather handles, the clue in that case can often times be found within the stitching. Naturally the stitching has to be in line with the standard Chloe stitch, but also the direction of the stitch. An authentic bag should have the stitch lines on the handles pointing outwards. Many times on fakes the stitch lines will point inward or directly at each other.
Also, on an authentic Chloe, an extra piece of leather is fastened to the handles. On the image (left) the seams can be seen, (although they are small in the small pic), to be facing out. They are not slanted towards the inside of the bag, or are they lined up strait, front to back.
Side note: The rivets associated with the handles should have the seams centered within them.

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