Originally Posted by
ScottCommutes
Leather is incredibly durable. I had a bunch of leather shoes that were underwater for three days in a flood. When i got to them, they were a moldy mess. I hosed all the gunk off and dried them in the sun. I honestly don't remember if I even used anything special to kill the mold - probably just a whole bunch of water.
Someone chucked my leather jacket in a plastic bag in the back of a cupboard when it was wet. I didn't know it was there until I found it weeks later, and it too was a mouldy mess. Figuring it would be hard to make it worse, I put it in the washing machine with a good squirt of dish detergent, and it came out looking and feeling better than when I had it cleaned by a so-called leather specialist.