It's very, very good as a product, when you're using it in the areas where it's best used. Take, for instance, work gloves. When I'm cutting, splitting, and stacking wood, a pair of very cheap, badly made, stiff, pig skin gloves from Harbor Freight will last me a few weeks before the finger tips wear through. Cotton gloves will last less than a day. Synthetic work gloves with reinforced fingers typically last about a week. Nice goatskin work gloves last about as long as the pigskin gloves, but are more comfortable and cost more.

My "motorcycle" jeans--reinforced with para-aramid fabric--are completely shot, and useless for riding. My RevIt! leather riding jacket and pants--which I've crashed in four times now--are still in fantastic shape, and are the same age as the jeans.