Tabbard Question

[Plo Strax-Avix]

My tabards are knee length in front and back, and its made straight, but 'pinched' and sawn at the waist behind the obi to make them fall properly. or else they'd cross each other below the waist.

[Nova Darklighter]

What I saw at CIII definitly looked like REAL LEATHER, or please tell me where they got that pleather, I've never seen any like it, and I work in an industry that uses tons of it. I believe what I said is what they meant, that it was refer to as Synth Leather in the sense that in that galaxy Far Far Away.... most people used synth leather and other manufactured type products of an industrial byproduct to make clothes etc. but they were generally the more expensive or practical type as opposed to natural which was used more by the poor or less urban dwellers. Also, if you attempted to distress the pleather tabbards with heat for the Mustafar fight, you'd just get melted spots, not true burns which were what they looked like to me, both at CIII and on film.

[Primrodo]

Yeah Anakin wore Leather tabards, made from cows..or lambs

[Nova Darklighter]

Cows, I think, lambs have a different grain, I used to work with a lot of leathers at an accessory company awhile back, the grain on lamb is usually pretty fine and the hides are usually smaller, they'd have a hard time finding them big enough to get the lengths for his tabbards, he's pretty tall, and split into suede, it's very soft.

[Primrodo]

Believe it or not Rein One uses Lambskin for his leather tabards...don't forget its 8 pieces for each tabard.

[tanzanlinnear]

It could well be that the costume department used real leather, but in the Visual Dictionary they said it was Synthetic Leather so as to make the Jedi seem more animal-friendly ;D
[Edit to add]
I'd like to see what happened if some animal rights protester tried to spraypaint Anakin's tabards

[Nova Darklighter]

Could be the skins I was used to working with came from younger lamds and were smaller, lambs are lambs until about 1 year, which is a pretty good size, we used young lamb, so the skins were quite small.