These days when just about anything wears out I send a note to my daughter (Moonglow). She makes costumes with a huge array of materials. Projects can involve fabric, but also things that come from the hardware store or the office supply store - and tons of stuff is purchased at the thrift store and remade for her needs. It's really something to watch a costume evolve.

I had a nice vinyl satchel handbag that began tearing at a couple of points so I let her know it's in her room (storage is at my house, she lives in the town where she is in graduate school). Next time she needs some costume part that looks like leather this bag will be dismantled.

SRS