What is the best year for a Black City?

[beauxgoris]

I love my 2006 s/s black city - but the leather on my 2001 le dix and f/w 2006 Rouge Vif is really something special. I began flirting with the idea of finding the perfect black city. I love the smooshy spongy leather of my other two bags - so I was just wondering if there was a year where the leather on the Black City bags was really wonderful? (and what color the hardware was that year too?)

This is more for the memory banks - or for the future as my bag funds are tapped out now for quite a while.

Is there a year that the leather etc. on the black cities was considered the best?

B-bag experts - let me hear from ya!

 

[*jennifer*]

i thought the 03 black was pretty fantastic, but even in that year, the leather had some variations.

 

[bbagbubba]

I like my '05 s/s leather. It's really, really soft. The earlier bags are so hard to find now, and so expensive--maybe one of this vintage would be just fine, and more affordable??

 

[ranskimmie]

I am partial to the 05' since I have one. The leather is the BEST ever!

 

[Tanja]

I just saw a black from this season and it was amazing: very thick leather and not veiny and marbely at all so you might get a new black later in the year.

 

[*jennifer*]

i should add that i have a s/s 05 black twiggy and the leather on it is perfect to me. still thick and smooshy, but not as smooth as on the 03.

 

[waif]

By chance I found the most amazing 06 last winter. It stood out like a sore thumb from the others. It's the softest leather I've ever seen, like butter - no veining, no marbling. It's not thick but that's my preference for me a bbag has to pull and slouch from the handles with nothing in them.

 

[Nymph]

This is gonna be such a FUN, and informative thread for me, since me wants a black City or Work!

Thanks Beaux, for starting this one!!!

 

[percephonie]

I have an 04 black city and it has the softest leather out of all my bbags (appart from my 02 first).

 

[toni22]

I have an 04 black city and it has the softest leather out of all my bbags

i have an 04 black city too, and its a totally different animal than any of my other bags....soft soft soft...

but i also agree with the ladies, 05 is a pretty good year, i have an 05 first S/S and kick myself that i did on that day splurge for the city. i originally went to bal to get the city, and opted for the first for money reasons.... oh, if only i could go back in time.......

 

[chigirl]

I have three s/s '05 black bags (first, city and day) and the leather is great on all of them but I have heard that the leather is even nicer on the '02-'04 bags.

 

[orchids]

I agree '05 is quite nice--the leather on my Black City has gotten even better with time; matte & smooshy.

 

[beauxgoris]

Do your 2004 city bags have brass or silver toned hardware?

 

[LivinLuxuriously]

I like the 05 best. I've "felt up" a bunch of 06 blacks and I don't like their leather at all. I find the 06 blacks look grayish because of the distressing. They look like marbles . The 04 leather was wonderful, but I don't like the silver hardwear. I like the 05 blacks because they're soft and squishy and the bronze hardwear gives the bag such a rustic appeal - I love it.

 

[beauxgoris]

^^I prefer bronze hardware too.