Luggage is the most
common and most important thing that every person needs during traveling. In
the long journey, the comfortable and easy to handle suitcases are the main
requirement because the handling of a suitcase that includes all the necessary
items are a very major problem. In the 60s and 70s, a different type of
material used in the suitcase likes plastic hard shell, leather, and aluminum.
The material of the suitcase in does not consider as important at that time,
but now the fabric of the suitcase consider very important and many people use
suitcase according to its fabrics.
Fabric suitcase is now
very popular but still people getting very confused that what type of material
is better for using the suitcase. Normally two types of-of the suitcase are
commonly used hard and soft. Soft or fabric suitcase is not crack, lightweight
and more flexible in use, whereas hard are provide more protection, waterproof
and easy to clean in use. So both are similar in the price and durability.
There are different
advantages and disadvantages of using hard and soft luggage. Some advantages of
the hard luggage are they come with combination locks that TSA approved, they
are easy to clean, they are water repellant or waterproof, they provide better
safety against fragile and electronic things and never over pack size
significant play a very important role so they are carry on luggage which is
very good in use. The benefits of the soft luggage are they are good for
packing cubes, because scratches are not visible so they are longer look new,
in tight space they are easy to fit, they are good for checked luggage within
the weight limit so they can be over packed and they are lighter in weight as
comper to hard luggage.
With advantages, there
are also many disadvantages that are facing the users. the drawbacks of the
hard luggage are they get scratch marks, for packing cubes they are not too
useful as split book-style opening, they are heavier, in the tight overhead
compartment that cannot be squeezed and after normal wear they can start to
appear cracks on it. The drawbacks of the soft luggage are they are normally
not coming with luggage locks, for hard objects and fragile items they are less
protection, through material water easy penetrates, they are difficult to clean
and in fabric, the tears are getting appeared.
So there is normally both
type luggage are commonly used by the people and they purchase both luggage
according to their need and requirement but during the purchase of both type of
luggage there are some important points buyer have to consider so he can obtain
a good quality product with a little attention.
When buyer go to purchase
the fabric or soft luggage he has to consider the following things in his mind;
check the case if it has feature of expandable, light color luggage are going
to be dirty very quickly with dust and oil stains and also appear different
marks on it so consider that the color you selected must be black or any dark
shade. The bottom portion of the suitcase will appear the marks and tears first
so in a lot of affordable fabrics suitcase with the skate wheel this is
considered very important that the bottom part must be made with the thick
fabrics if no spinner wheel fix at the bottom of the luggage. Buyer must spend
some time on checking and review the luggage and observe it zipper because
normally cheap luggage fix the cheap quality zipper that easily broke down so
you want durable and thick zipper that remains for long period and when
purchasing the fabric luggage then try to spend on best material because it is
the investment of one time and you can use the luggage for long period of time.
Now during the purchase
of hard luggage the following points must be considered by the buyer; new hard
case have a great feature of TSA approved lock and width expandable that is
easy to use, some time the cheap hard case has poor spinner wheels, broken
zippers, have cracks and also broken handle so spend some time on deal review
the case while purchasing, must determine the dimension of the suitcase must be
accurate according to given because the
accurate dimension is very much important for the hard suitcases, sometimes the
hard suitcase is made of very heavy material so must determine the weight of
suitcase during carry them and try to purchase that suitcase that have scratch
resistant finish because it is long term investment to good quality material is
very much important while purchasing the hard suitcase.
In both types of category
of the suitcase, a different type of material is going to use during their
manufacturing and also having different prices because some material is cheap
and durable but some material is very expensive so the price of such suitcase
is also very high according to their manufacturing and also their durability.
Some companies also give warranty of a limited time period so you can change or
replace the suitcase if any issue appears with them. Normally hard luggage is
made with a different type of material like aluminum, polypropylene,
polycarbonate, and ABC (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) that is a combination
of three materials. Among all of them, the most durable material is the
polycarbonate or aluminum although its cost is higher than others but it goes a
long time period and also provide high durability to the users.
The soft or fabric
luggage are made with different material like leather, canvas, ballistic nylon,
Cordura nylon, nylon, and polyester. Among all of them, the most durable fabric
is nylon, Cordura nylon and ballistic nylon that is most commonly used among
the users. These types of luggage are considered perfect for use because they
are tear resistance and high abrasion.
So the luggage is very
different kinds and type that are easily available in the market according to
the requirement and need of the users.