Where do you first meet new bags to lust after?

[lilpicotin]

Just curious. I honestly think some of the bags advertised in magazines are fugly, especially a lot of the trends advertised each season, and not all the bags I love are in the stores I frequent... I have NO idea where I first met a Chloe paddington, except the paddy led me to tPF and now it's all about tPF-discussed bags.


EDIT: There was going to be a poll, but apparently I took too long to write it. So here were my poll options:

1. Magazines/Ads: I want everything I see in Vogue
2. Friends/Celebrities: I don't really realize how much I want a bag until I see it carried IRL
3. Websites/shopping blogs (other than tPF): I constantly browse websites looking to see what's new/popular
4. Shopping: I'm constantly shopping and looking for bags at the scene of the crime
5. tPF: I never knew how much I NEEDED TO HAVE until I came here.

 

[pinkbags]

I'd say #5
i started viewing the tpf before i joined and it made me want more and more things. and there is such a wealth of information here about various bags i might not have considered or known about...

i do like to see and touch them in person, though, to see how it fits me.

 

[paintednightsky]

Definitely TPF. It opens me up to many of the more lesser known handbag brands I might have never known about.

 

[rachieface]

DEFINITELY tPF.

I wouldn't know about half of this stuff if it wasn't for you girls!

 

[seahorseinstripes]

from sites like saks, neiman, BG and of course TPF

 

[Leelee]

Definitely tPF! Also, Saks, NM, Bergdorf's, Barney's and ELux's websites. But honestly, mostly from these awesome, fashionable people here at tPF!

 

[angelchick182]

Definitely tPF now - magazine ads are really hit or miss for me. Before tPF, I would just browse dept. store websites and ebay.

 

[purseinsanity]

Definitely tPF! I wouldn't have even known about a lot of the other websites I now frequent if it hadn't been for this place!

 

[Accessory Obsessory]

I'm like you BlueGenes, I started off seeing the paddy somewhere (geez you had to be dead not to!) and then ended up here because I googled it trying to find out where to buy it. Then after collecting info and being scared off of ebay, I came back to chat...and chat...and chat....!

 

[Leelee]

Definitely tPF now - magazine ads are really hit or miss for me.

That's how I feel too. I usually can't see myself wearing the bags in the pictures, but on tPF the bags become "real". KWIM?

 

[angelchick182]

That's how I feel too. I usually can't see myself wearing the bags in the pictures, but on tPF the bags become "real". KWIM?

Definitely! I usually have 1 of 2 problems with mag ad pics - 1) there's nothing I could wear the bag with(or no occasion to carry it) that would even look good or 2) I can seem to find every bag that brand makes except for the "to die for" bag in the ad....what's up with that?

 

[daphodill84]

Generally magazine ads and tPF. (I read wayyy too many magazines! Its all I do at work)

 

[pro_shopper]

For me its shopping! I don't really read megazines and I do internet shop but generally I love shopping in the stores!

 

[Archipelago]

Internet shopping, in-store shopping, and TPF!

 

[lily25]

In store shopping and internet shopping. 90% of my buys are in store inspired...