I received this bag for my birthday.
It is one of those annoying situations where you cannot help but think of all the things your relative could have done with the money had they gotten you a less costly gift, and yes, the things you yourself could have purchased.
I understand that here in the lofty heights of handbagology, many here consider the Sak brand to be a low end product. But the average price of this low end product is still several times what I spend on bags.
The family member who presented me with this bag also failed to secure any sort of agreement with the Sak company with regard to remuneration for me to perform advertising services, and that is the real issue that brings me here to you today.
The bag features the company name in four places. Two zipper pulls, a charm, and a little metal patch sort of thing near the bottom corner of the bag. I have already replaced the charm with a very nice little enamel elephant, in a soft cocoa brown that falls right between the light beige ("natural" is what the company calls it, it is MUCH lighter than the picture of it I found) knit fabric body and the dark brown straps. I have not replaced the zipper pulls yet, but that is just because I have not decided what I will replace them with. I have a formidable collection of almost all faux bling that can be tweaked and repurposed.
But the little patch on the corner? It appears that it cannot be removed without actually undoing the lining and performing some sort of surgery on the bag itself, a feat that is beyond my comprehension, much less my skills, my abilities in the textile arts having been holding steady at zero since - well, forever.
So it would appear that covering the patch will be my best option. But with what will I cover it? Rhinestones do not really go with this bag, they would not even were I to change the charm to a rhinestone one and put rhinestone zipper pulls.
And when it comes to tasks like covering up a little metal patch approximately one half by three quarters of an inch, I am so a one trick pony.
Paint (translation: nail polish) won't do it, because the name is carved or stamped or whatever into the patch.
I do not have a plain piece of metal exactly that size, or any size really, no little metal squares at all that I could glue over it.
So what do I do?
Sure, I could just hang it up downstairs, in that Bag Twilight Zone, not really in Current Rotation, yet not so far removed from my current bag needs, desires, preferences and whims as those boxed up and reposing in some secure location, indefinite and undisclosed. Por alli. In or up yonder.
But a complication has arisen. As I have contemplated the bag, its flaws and imperfections, and thanks to those who replied to my original thread** seeking help on darkening the offensive contrasting topstitching (I am Opposed to contrasting topstitching), something troubling has occurred.
I have begun to like the bag. Despite my best efforts, outfits that it would look good with come unbidden to my mind.
I want to apply those outfits to my person, and sally forth rocking my birthday bag.
So it is imperative that I resolve the patch issue, and do so immediately.
Thanks to those who replied to my first and desperate thread** on the subject of this bag, I am leaning heavily toward KTScrlet's shoe polish idea, even though after examining the bag, the straps and trim are neither leather nor unleather but some sort of reinforced fabric, I am guessing nylon or that newfangled microfiber stuff, which is what we are supposed to call nylon now, which probably means, since my Total and Eternal Shopping Ban precludes even purchasing mockinglee's excellent suggestion of a fabric dye pen, I should do some acrylic paint mixed with fabric medium instead of the shoe polish, or maybe - and I can't believe I am even saying this, the more I gaze at the bag, the more I feel in my heart a strange and disturbing germ of a notion that perhaps in this particular case, on this exact bag, and it alone, the topstitching might not look as bad as I think it does.
But even if, and if ever an if was big, this one is a leviathan, a colossus among ifs, that germ of a notion should undergo some sort of cellular division and form itself into a full-blown notion, there would still be the problem of the Patch.
My options are:
1) Contact the Sak company and sound them out on the idea of some sort of honorarium, explaining that I am unable to perform complementary publicity or advertising services for any company.
2)Alter, cover, embellish or in some manner cause it not to say SAK
Due to the millions of individuals who parade daily through the public streets sporting handbags that advertise the Sak, for the pleasure and privilege of serving the company, I have concluded that the chances of Option 1 are so small as to be statistically insignificant, about the same as the chance that I would opt to serve, on a completely volunteer basis, a company of which I am neither admirer, loyalist, fan or devotee.
That leaves me with Option 2.
And here I collapse before you in a small heap of wit's end, and mercifully, post's end, and ask:
What can I do about that damn patch?
**
http://forum.purseblog.com/handbags...unwanted-contrasting-topstitching-184356.html
It is one of those annoying situations where you cannot help but think of all the things your relative could have done with the money had they gotten you a less costly gift, and yes, the things you yourself could have purchased.
I understand that here in the lofty heights of handbagology, many here consider the Sak brand to be a low end product. But the average price of this low end product is still several times what I spend on bags.
The family member who presented me with this bag also failed to secure any sort of agreement with the Sak company with regard to remuneration for me to perform advertising services, and that is the real issue that brings me here to you today.
The bag features the company name in four places. Two zipper pulls, a charm, and a little metal patch sort of thing near the bottom corner of the bag. I have already replaced the charm with a very nice little enamel elephant, in a soft cocoa brown that falls right between the light beige ("natural" is what the company calls it, it is MUCH lighter than the picture of it I found) knit fabric body and the dark brown straps. I have not replaced the zipper pulls yet, but that is just because I have not decided what I will replace them with. I have a formidable collection of almost all faux bling that can be tweaked and repurposed.
But the little patch on the corner? It appears that it cannot be removed without actually undoing the lining and performing some sort of surgery on the bag itself, a feat that is beyond my comprehension, much less my skills, my abilities in the textile arts having been holding steady at zero since - well, forever.
So it would appear that covering the patch will be my best option. But with what will I cover it? Rhinestones do not really go with this bag, they would not even were I to change the charm to a rhinestone one and put rhinestone zipper pulls.
And when it comes to tasks like covering up a little metal patch approximately one half by three quarters of an inch, I am so a one trick pony.
Paint (translation: nail polish) won't do it, because the name is carved or stamped or whatever into the patch.
I do not have a plain piece of metal exactly that size, or any size really, no little metal squares at all that I could glue over it.
So what do I do?
Sure, I could just hang it up downstairs, in that Bag Twilight Zone, not really in Current Rotation, yet not so far removed from my current bag needs, desires, preferences and whims as those boxed up and reposing in some secure location, indefinite and undisclosed. Por alli. In or up yonder.
But a complication has arisen. As I have contemplated the bag, its flaws and imperfections, and thanks to those who replied to my original thread** seeking help on darkening the offensive contrasting topstitching (I am Opposed to contrasting topstitching), something troubling has occurred.
I have begun to like the bag. Despite my best efforts, outfits that it would look good with come unbidden to my mind.
I want to apply those outfits to my person, and sally forth rocking my birthday bag.
So it is imperative that I resolve the patch issue, and do so immediately.
Thanks to those who replied to my first and desperate thread** on the subject of this bag, I am leaning heavily toward KTScrlet's shoe polish idea, even though after examining the bag, the straps and trim are neither leather nor unleather but some sort of reinforced fabric, I am guessing nylon or that newfangled microfiber stuff, which is what we are supposed to call nylon now, which probably means, since my Total and Eternal Shopping Ban precludes even purchasing mockinglee's excellent suggestion of a fabric dye pen, I should do some acrylic paint mixed with fabric medium instead of the shoe polish, or maybe - and I can't believe I am even saying this, the more I gaze at the bag, the more I feel in my heart a strange and disturbing germ of a notion that perhaps in this particular case, on this exact bag, and it alone, the topstitching might not look as bad as I think it does.
But even if, and if ever an if was big, this one is a leviathan, a colossus among ifs, that germ of a notion should undergo some sort of cellular division and form itself into a full-blown notion, there would still be the problem of the Patch.
My options are:
1) Contact the Sak company and sound them out on the idea of some sort of honorarium, explaining that I am unable to perform complementary publicity or advertising services for any company.
2)Alter, cover, embellish or in some manner cause it not to say SAK
Due to the millions of individuals who parade daily through the public streets sporting handbags that advertise the Sak, for the pleasure and privilege of serving the company, I have concluded that the chances of Option 1 are so small as to be statistically insignificant, about the same as the chance that I would opt to serve, on a completely volunteer basis, a company of which I am neither admirer, loyalist, fan or devotee.
That leaves me with Option 2.
And here I collapse before you in a small heap of wit's end, and mercifully, post's end, and ask:
What can I do about that damn patch?**
http://forum.purseblog.com/handbags...unwanted-contrasting-topstitching-184356.html
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