for your first Birkin, would you go for black w/gold h/w or blue w/gold h/w? pls r/o

COLOR --

BLACK, definitely! I am also a working girl and it just goes with everything.

I agree with the other members -- once you get your black, a blue H bag will follow shortly!

HARDWARE --

GOLD -- This is simply my personal preference.
 
I vote black g/h for a first birkin too, that was my preferred first birkin, but the wait-list in my country is more than half a decade long,so my walk-in first birkin turned out to be an orange one! I hope my order here eventually will show up, black IMO is really present & future-proof!