Show durability of canvas makes luggage lighter luggage was made only from leather or cowhide this natural heavy skin was durable and bags made of this lasted a lifetime 0 but it gave the bag excessive weight A bag for men of the type known as the gladstone with straps and extra protective riveted corners often weighed 25 pounds empty toda today y about 75 per cent of all luggage is manufactured following a radically different construction principle that on which the airplane itself was built it was about 1933 when the aeroplane iero plane became a popular mode of passenger travel that the luggage it carried was also forced to adapt itself to the urgent demands for less bulk aeroplane engineers discovered that canvas when stretched tightly over a frame of light wood or tensile steel was durable but light with numerous other advantages and quite naturally miladys luggage followed suit and the new type became quickly known as aeroplane luggage it is to the introduction of canvas as a covering that present day suitcases owe many of their smart features |