That beautiful leather jacket, your suave leather shoes, your stylish leather accessories; they all need to be taken care of. Leather doesn’t come cheap so care of your leather products is essential to ensure your items are as long lasting as they could be. We’ve compiled some top tips for caring for your leather.

Leather is in demand more than ever at present – particularly designer products without the hefty price tag. Whether it’s a stylish jacket fresh off the catwalk in Milan or something small and simple that just oozes class. 

We are surrounded by leather accessories; women sashay down streets with leather designer bags hung on their arms, men pull out stylish, designer, leather wallets when paying for dinner – but how much have they paid for these stylish and timeless accessories? More thank likely, over the odds!

Fashion is a fickle mistress indeed.  No sooner have you invested in the perfect set of online shopping accessories than it’s gone out of fashion and you’re being sneered at by your friends.  Fortunately, leather remains a sound fashion investment for year after year.  What makes it so timeless?

You heard it here first, but was it ever really out of fashion? Leather has always been a prominent material in the style stakes and leather products constantly surround us, look down at your killer heels; what are they made from? That gorgeous handbag on your arm; it’s more than likely it is also leather.

Leather is definitely up there in the list of must-have materials, both on and off the catwalks of Paris, New York and Milan. For decades, celebrities and fashion icons have been developing ranges featuring leather products because they just never go out of style, (well, the trousers did, but they’re an exception).

While women check that they have all of their “essentials”, such as lip-gloss, eye-liner, compact mirror, phone, purse, discount cards and whatever else they can get into their handbags before leaving the house, men only really check for three things. Your phone, your house and/or car keys and of course, the leather wallet. It’s much simpler getting ready to go when you’re a man but it can pose more issues.

We seem to be through the worst of the winter now (hopefully) so many of you will be thinking about jetting off on holiday for the Easter or summer break. With so many things to take away, from passports to sunglasses and flip-flops to boarding passes, making sure you’ve got everything can be a stressful process. 

Now we’re not ones for blowing our own trumpet here at St James Leather Gifts, but in the past few months we’ve been getting our products featured in some of the top magazines in the country. Such is the popularity and quality of our luxury leather gifts that the likes of GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire and most recently Red have been running features on the brand and range – they can’t get enough!

Choosing a Mother’s Day gift is sometimes a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Leaving it until the very last minute results in rushing around the shopping centre or tearing up and down the high street trying to find something that she almost certainly won’t like. Leather gifts such as those from StJ are much more likely to evoke a huge smile because they’re practical, stylish and show you care.