Glad it all worked out! I should be getting mine today, I guess I'm going to have to take extra care of it when I do!
OK so I PERSONALLY think this is gonna be a problem with these item's but my wallet seems to be doing JUST fine so I am curious, is this just isolated to the cles'? I am not seeing blue or green I am seeing brown and what I THINK it is is the fact that the leather is scaly so the 12 layer screen printing prcess doesnt let ALL the layers of paint get into every groove and cranny (dunno spelling) so most of it will have 12 layers of paint on it, but some of the grooves wont, so it is more likely we will gets dots/chipping there. Do u get what I mean? What I THINK it is, is not blue/green but tha actual brown monogram showing throught and ur eyes are decieving u to thinking it's blue, because on my first faulty cles, It was BIG chips and it still looked "blue" but it was in fact brown monogram, I have about 2 of them (tiny dots) but thought I had about 5 but those other three were just tiny dust particles settled in the grooves so I rubbed my finger/shirt across it and those 3 came off, so try and use a plain cloth or just ur finger and rub it against the painted canvas and c if ur spots come off.
It was really bothering me about the chipping on the guy's arm b/c I had only used it once for less than 10 minutes to the groceries store. Got home, took the keys off the cles, laid the cles on my desk..that's it. So I don't know if it was already chipped when I brought it home or it happened while I was using it. It's not noticeable at all unless i closely inspect it but still I'm picky like that. On mine, it's the gray color of the groom's sleeve. The gray part chipped off exposing the yellow color of the stripe underneath. Not bad, but still bothered me like hell!
So, I brought it back to my SA today and told him about it. He said it's bound to happen with these pieces. Soon the edges will chip off too, that's the area that it's most likely to happen...but he said that's part of the look and part of its history. I don't know if it's true or he was just BSing me...he's a new guy I'm using ..and I'm thinking of getting someone else b/c I don't like his selling tactics.
I looked at other cles they had and I still saw those blue/green dots that's on the cream stripe. Some were in the grooves and some were on top of the bumps. I ran my finger across it but it didn't come off so either it was mixed in with the cream paint or, like you expected, that it's thinner in that area so against the cream color it looks blue. What's strange was that it wasn't a chip off but more like specks of blue (kinda like the size of small glitter particles) in the groove as well as on top of the bumps. I feel like maybe they had a problem with the consistency of the paint, so it didn't evenly cover b/c of the textured canvas. Oh, and on my cles I only see the specks on the front side but not the back side.
Although I love the groom, I might exchange it for the scarf or bandeau instead. No chip off problem with that
YES mine is also not on the back! Although he needs to exchange it if it is chipping off the arm on urs already!!! I only have two of the "blue" dots, one on the yellow stripe (about twice the size as the other one one the white stripe, which is about the size of a needle tip) and one on the white. Now what I DO wonder is could it be little bubbles left from the paint after the silk screening and then they popped? Should I get mine exchanged AGAIN this time fore somethign so small compared to the last time? I just dont want them to think of me as the kid (Im 18 but I look younger) whos a Pain in the........ What should I do? Also can the scarf be used as an ACTUAL scarf or is it not long or thick enough.