like i've said, the armor can be used as cheap camoflauge but is rendered useless by texture packs that have ringlets as leather armor. i can see the usefulness of leather armor when you have a large (5+) person garrison in some kind of game where you can hit them, you could basically just go "everyone wear a blue hat" and everyone would be identifiable with not that much defense lost. i can see uses in this kind of stuff, but the way they are going about implementing this feature is just poorly planned and should be changed.