Matching colors to leather textures

[karmenzsofia]

/\ yes, everything i hear about the saddle is that is super soft. i love the color, too. i'm curious about the cognac and hazelnut because i rarely see those.

[lilac0485]

^the one cognac I've seen IRL was stiff/structure/slight glaze

[sanghu]

Soft/distress:
Night blue, Concord, Sunshine, Ocean, Jade

Soft/Smooth:
Iris, Wine, Dark Gray, Emerald, Blush, Seafoam, Royal Blue, Midnight, Berry

Pebble:
Double cream, Chocolate, Black (same as BBW), White (same as WBW), resort yellow, Ruby

Stiff/structure:
Persimmon, seagreen, glazed expresso, glazed almond, stone, Eggplant

Slighty Glazed/Slight Shine:
Noir, Cloudgrey, Tangerine, Night, Evergreen, Fuschia

Matte (soft as a baby's toosh ):
Dusty, Lavender, Sage, stonewash blue, stonewash black, Stonewash Chocolate


Adding my chocolate stonewash and berry to the list.

[sanghu]

Also, I don't know where to add this above, but my Purple berry matinee is lambskin and the purple is totally distressed (and i haven't used it ever, it is distressed even as brand new !)

[sanghu]

Here are some pictures borrowed from Circoit's collection post of the matinee I'm referring to.

[greenpixie]

Changing the category for sea green and adding tlloveshim's and MrsShoeGal's contributions back in:

Soft/distress:
Night blue, Concord, Sunshine, Ocean, Jade

Soft/Smooth:
Iris, Wine, Dark Gray, Emerald, Blush, Seafoam, Royal Blue, Midnight, Berry, Ocean, whitewash, 08 dark brown

Pebble:
Double cream, Chocolate, Black (same as BBW), White (same as WBW), resort yellow, Ruby, Old Stone-light light grey, lavender

Stiff/structure:
Persimmon, glazed expresso, glazed almond, stone, Eggplant

Slighty Glazed/Slight Shine:
Noir, Cloudgrey, Tangerine, Night, Evergreen, Fuschia, Sea Green

Matte (soft as a baby's toosh ):
Dusty, Lavender, Sage, stonewash blue, stonewash black, Stonewash Chocolate

Pebbled Slight Shine
Tijuana Brown

[circoit]

sanghu - I'm pretty sure our ShopBop matinees are the night blue leather. Sometiems ShopBop makes up their own names for colors, and since this matinee was an exclusive to them, I wouldn't be surprised.

As for the seagreen - the seagreen is definitely not structured or stiff, its soft and glazed like the cloud grey.

[MrsShoeGal]

Desi-

the ocean you had was distressed like the night blue? That's nuts! I wonder how the leather varies so much. I wish concord was like my ocean leather! My Ocean is smooth as silk, much thicker than night blue

[sanghu]

Originally Posted by circoit

sanghu - I'm pretty sure our ShopBop matinees are the night blue leather. Sometiems ShopBop makes up their own names for colors, and since this matinee was an exclusive to them, I wouldn't be surprised. As for the seagreen - the seagreen is definitely not structured or stiff, its soft and glazed like the cloud grey.

Hello Circoit, nice to see you here. I see what you mean, but I have the night blue nikki also and I feel like it is a much darker blue versus the true purple in the matinee, KWIM? I will go back and take another look today.

[Tx Honeybee]

I think the Hazelnut belongs in the Stiff/Structured category as well as being glazed. I've had my MAB Hazelnut since April, and it is still very structured.

[tlloveshim]

Originally Posted by karmenzsofia

/\ yes, everything i hear about the saddle is that is super soft. i love the color, too. i'm curious about the cognac and hazelnut because i rarely see those.

Saddle is incredible! I got a MAB in the mail today and it's like butter! Hazelnut is structured. I kind of remember it being like glazed almond.

What about colors like mocha, sea foam, lilac, deep purple and yellow/silverspot. I didn't see them on the list and I have never felt any of them before.

[lilac0485]

^^I would say the LILAC is soft/smooth, but on the more structured side of the spectrum. More like wine than ocean.

[writerrobyn]

Would someone be able to rank the types of leather from least to most smooshy (puddly)? And maybe include a sample pic for each type? I keep going back and forth between the list and photos in other threads to match them up...I'm going crosseyed!

Thanks for starting this thread. It's answering the very question I was going to ask!

[karmenzsofia]

Originally Posted by writerrobyn

Would someone be able to rank the types of leather from least to most smooshy (puddly)? And maybe include a sample pic for each type? I keep going back and forth between the list and photos in other threads to match them up...I'm going crosseyed! Thanks for starting this thread. It's answering the very question I was going to ask!

There's already a thread about that exact topic. Search "smooshy leather" and it should come up.

[Desi]

Here is a very helpful link writer. This is a database a couple minkettes put together that has pretty much 95% off all the colors RM has put into production till date- including some sample bags!

http://forum.purseblog.com/rebecca-m...se-303905.html