Sheldon says:

""Revolutionary" saddle designs come onto the market every year, and these new technologies have much to offer for many riders. Nevertheless, many others may be best served by a technology that has not changed substantially in this century, the tensioned leather saddle.

From the dawn of history up through the early 1970's, virtually all good quality bicycles came with leather saddles.

A leather saddle, like a good pair of shoes or a baseball glove, softens with use, and molds itself to fit a particular person's shape. What ever part of your rear end pushes hardest on the saddle causes the corresponding part of the saddle to soften and stretch to relieve the uneven pressure, until the saddle accomodates perfectly to your own particular tush."

Actually makes some sense, eh? Go figure.

If you don't want one, don't buy one. I you think they look ugly, don't buy one.

And it should be noted people have been spending $120 on Brooks and other leather saddles long before you turkeys came along.