Breathable leather-like materials and process for making same

A leather-like material with a high degree of air permeability, good abrasion resistance and resistance to cracking at low temperatures consisting essentially of a porous, fibrous substrate having fibers extending from a surface thereof, and a polymer layer comprising from about 7 percent to about 15 percent by weight, based upon the substrate and formed of a polymeric composition having a gas entrapped therein, said polymer layer being secured substantially exclusively along said ascending fibers and forming a discontinuous polymer phase and a continuous pore phase wherein the discontinuous polymer phase of said polymer layer covers from about 30 percent to about 70 percent of surface of said material with the remainder being the continuous pore phase, said leather-like material having a surface luster from about -0.7 to about +5.7.