The Leopard Trails Crossbody

The bag for the woman who matches her bag to her pants and makes no apologies for it — a large flap crossbody in genuine leopard print hair-on cowhide with a natural tan and dark brown two-tone hand tooled scroll flap band, turquoise stone concho closure, and warm caramel leather gusset and body sides in the most wildly beautiful Western crossbody in the collection. The leopard print cowhide used in this crossbody bag is the most distinctive and most personality-forward hide material in the Western accessories market — the bold black spots on cream and warm tan ground of the genuine leopard print cowhide carrying the wild animal energy of a material that is simultaneously exotic in its reference and completely at home in the Western fashion vocabulary that has always embraced animal prints as authentic expressions of the untamed landscape the Western lifestyle is rooted in. The front body of this large flap crossbody is covered in genuine leopard print hair-on cowhide from the base to the flap closure — the bold, irregular black spots in the double-rosette pattern of the actual leopard coat distributed across the cream and warm tan ground of the hide in the one-of-a-kind pattern that no two pieces of genuine leopard print cowhide ever precisely replicate. The full-coverage cowhide body is framed by a warm caramel leather gusset and body sides that provide the structural form of the crossbody while creating the warm, earthy color complement that grounds the wild leopard print in the Western leather palette. The flap that covers the front body opening carries the same leopard cowhide surface as the body below it — the print continuing across the flap face in the uninterrupted hide coverage that makes the full front of the bag a single, complete leopard surface — interrupted only by the hand tooled leather band that runs horizontally across the center of the flap in the natural tan and dark brown two-tone scroll work that introduces the Western leather artisan tradition as the contrasting design element. The scroll band features the Western botanical scroll in the flowing, organic forms of genuine hand carving with the dark brown antiquing that creates the two-tone dimensional depth, and at the center of the band the turquoise stone concho closure is set in the antique silver bezel that combines the Southwestern stone with the silversmith frame in the perfect focal point of the full flap composition.