He looked like a potbellied skeleton upholstered in distressed leather.

She wrote of women wearing "distressed leather or roughed-up shearling . . . jodhpurs and a blanket cape closed with a snaffle-bit buckle."

Fabric experts at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan said washed silk grew out of the fad for distressed leather and stone-washed denim.

Two customers grew distressed with admiration of a $485 distressed brown leather bomber jacket Friday.

By the end of the evening, she showed distressed leathers and cargo pants - the woman evolved, her sadness conquered.

English sofas, in distressed leather, start at $3,200; two 19th-century wood columns are $1,800.

Many fall shoes are in metallics, distressed or decorated leathers and colored suedes.

Gone are the peasant skirts, distressed leathers, chunks of turquoise, blouses made to look as though they should be put on Russian stacking dolls.

It is upholstered in distressed top-grain leather (Cherokee Brown or Saddle) for $1,499; for $1,999, you can buy one with a matching ottoman.

Buckles are brass and the bag comes in brown distressed leather and chocolate brown.