Handbags and Purses Made From...T-Rex Skin?

[Prehistory Resurrection]

Link to article: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna203653

[Trenchcoated Rebbachisaur]

...Well that sounds incredibly dumb. Is that actually gonna work? Will these bags showcase T.rex real colors? Is this just marketing weirdos promising the moon when they can't lift a pebble? I will certainly assume that last one is true until proven otherwise.

[SidB]

Weird is right. Next step, 'ethically sound' Belsen products? I find this type of stuff repulsive by definition, a throwback to one-eyebrow times.

[thomasw100]

Feels to me as unethical as making bags from reptilians like crocs.

[Carnoking]

https://www.livescience.com/animals/dinosaurs/t-rex-researchers-eviscerate-misleading-dinosaur-leather-announcement

Holtz weighs in

[Trenchcoated Rebbachisaur]

Yeah, figured.
I am really amused by the guy in the comments writing random technobabble-esque nonsense though. I foresee a future writing pulp sci-fi novellas.

[JohannesB]

Plain silly.

[Protopatch]

Pure marketing strategy IMO too.
Are they more targeting ladies rather than gentlemen with those ethically doubtful products ? lol

[stargatedalek]

While silly marketing rubbish, they are right that it's ethical. No animals are dying or being harmed to make it. Lab grown leather is a potentially exciting field that could hopefully reduce some degree of reliance on synthetic materials.

[BlueKrono]

It reminds of the people who think rhino horn has medicinal properties when it's just the same stuff as our fingernails.

[Protopatch]

If there was the choice, I'd have chosen a down jacket made of protofeathers !
At least, it would keep you warm

[GojiraGuy1954]

I don't trust AI-generated concept photographs on principle