Leather exterior

Natural high-quality leather is the most ideal outer material because it's strong, durable, breathable, and looks good. What you don't want is vinyl, polyurethane, plastic, or any other synthetic materials.Those materials are non-breatheable (hands get hot and sweaty), and leave your acidic sweat longer inside the glove (breaking it down faster). Non-leather also smells much worse than leather, probably because of chemicals.

Back in the days, all gloves were made of leather. But thanks to technology and unscrupulous brands trying to fool the public, all that has changed now. Many brands use fancy designs to hide the fact that it isn't real leather. They'll even list "features" of fake leather material to make it sound as if it's better than leather. Their gloves may appear more high-tech and innovative but they really aren't. ALL LEATHER is still the best!

It's also best if the glove is made using as few pieces of leather as possible. This creates fewer seams and fewer places for your glove to tear apart from over time. So why would manufacturers use many pieces? One reason is to make use of smaller pieces of leather (like scrap leather leftover from other projects), saving money because there's less waste. Another reason is to mix materials, using only a little bit of real leather and the rest is cheaper materials (vinyl, plastic, mesh). And lastly, using many pieces allows them to create a fancier-looking glove to sell for a higher price.

The problems with mesh, plastic, or other pretend leather:

1. doesn't breathe, less comfortable
2. hotter, sweatier, smells awful
3. extra seams in places where it will eventually tear apart
4. weaker, less support, less durable