2017 resolution - shopping my own bag and wallet collection. Any one else?

[ksuromax]

thanks for the replies, Ladies
and for the compliments on my Veneta, she is
how interesting to read that some very unusual colour combos (for me at least) are safe ones for the others
i would never dare to wear dark green with navy, but navy with pale pink sounds really tempting... especially in the light of getting my new-to-me H scarf (it's in transit), i will definitely try it with my dark blue boring office dress and dark blue shirt once it arrives...
i have pale skin and green eyes, my natural hair is light brown/dark blond, but with my pale skin it doesn't compliment me, makes me look colourless, so i dye my hair with henna in copper/burgundy red
grey works for me only if i do full MU and bright lips (and/or a scarf), so it's not a 'safe' colour for me....

 

[Mulberrygal]

Soooo...I'm back home and quite bag disgruntled.

1) I used my black YSL Small Monogram Cabas as my main bag for the travel I did Th - Sun. It was fully loaded several times. And this is what happened.
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BOTH of the handles came apart. The pins holding on the bar that keeps the handles attached "worked" their way out somehow. I am furious!!! I am careful with my bags and have NEVER had this kind of issue. Not with the cheapest bags or the most delicate. This is supposed to be my black "workhorse". I should be able to carry it fully loaded with no issues.

I bought it from Fashionphile 6 months ago so I can't take it to a boutique. So I'm going to try to find a cobbler to fix it. But with black hardware I'm concerned.

2) My sorority colors are salmon pink and apple green and I like to wear pink. So I wanted an apple green bag to wear to sorority functions now and again. I didn't want to spend a lot of money on what would be a "specialty" bag in my closet so I found an apple green suede Chanel bag at an insanely low sale price because it needs a little cleaning. Nothing major. It's just "grungy."
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Well I contacted Leather Surgeons and they said they can't clean suede. Huh??? That shocks me. I'm going to contact a couple of other places and see what they say. If I can't find an option I'll return the bag (I have 30 days). But I'm disappointed. Finding an apple green bag that's pretty and at a low price is not an easy task. LOL!!!

Oh no what a bummer, I'm sure that shouldn't happen, even if fully loaded! I hope you manage to get it fixed okay.

I had the same problem with suede and will never buy another suede bag. I purchased a PS1 in a gorgeous muted pink shade. I rarely used it, where the hardware touched the suede it went badly black and the bag in generally changed colour.................never again for me. I sold it at a huge loss, very disappointing.

 

[dcooney4]

Here is the bag that I've been wearing for the last 3 days. AMQ small Padlock.

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I have always loved this bag too. Is it very heavy?

 

[dcooney4]

I am wearing my toffee Veneta for the second day paired with blue shirts, and i have a question for everyone, do you have steady colour combos which you take as proven and tested and go for them blindly (knowing that it will 100% work for you) or, on the opposite, any colour combos that you will NOT dare to wear or at least will try on before giving it a go?
For me such combos are back and lime/fluo green, dark violet and fluo green, toffee and pale blue/teal/turquoise - my trusty ones, anything with red and/or green ONLY AFTER a multiple check ups in different mirrors and at different lighting, wrong shade of red or green can ruin me completely, making me look ill, or vulgar....
Here are my 2 last looks with Veneta in Toscana
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Yes, Black tee shirt and dark skinny jeans and boots.

 

[vink]

I am wearing my toffee Veneta for the second day paired with blue shirts, and i have a question for everyone, do you have steady colour combos which you take as proven and tested and go for them blindly (knowing that it will 100% work for you) or, on the opposite, any colour combos that you will NOT dare to wear or at least will try on before giving it a go?
For me such combos are back and lime/fluo green, dark violet and fluo green, toffee and pale blue/teal/turquoise - my trusty ones, anything with red and/or green ONLY AFTER a multiple check ups in different mirrors and at different lighting, wrong shade of red or green can ruin me completely, making me look ill, or vulgar....
Here are my 2 last looks with Veneta in Toscana
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For me, the safe one would be cool-tone white with anything, Light baby blue or baby blue with anything. I know I wear any color on the cool shade spectrum well and I stick to dark bottoms so my life is quite simple with only color-changing on tops.

The dangerous shade for me is red, green, and brown. They tend to age me horribly or just clash with my skin and make my face look horrid. [emoji28]

 

[vink]

Even black can be hard to wear for me. The texture of material and shades of black can be trouble.
Yeah.. I'm very picky with my clothes. [emoji28]

 

[Mulberrygal]

Re number of bags...
i currently own 60+/-, i did some moves in and out, need to refresh my inventory
I am happy with what i have, but i understand that some don't get used often enough, i will move out some more by summer and hopefully will make it closer to 50
ideally i think i need 30-35, but i am guilty in having doubles, in hobo style that works best for me, i can have one in every colour! So, no pressure to reduce harshly, but i definitely will work on modifying my collection

Arhhhhhh a girl after my own heart, sounds like a fabulous collection. The most I ever had was 40 at which point I felt for me enough was enough. I've chopped and changed a lot over the years to suit my life style but now I've "matured" I've come to a time My collection is no longer evolving & constantly changing & I just don't need so many. We are also looking to downsize our home so storage may become a problem.............although we are looking to possible buy 2 smaller properties, one abroad in which case I can split my collection between 2 homes

I love your bag. In regards to the closet I used to have problems using my stuff. I ended up buying cubes that I put on my shelves. It gave me space in the cubes and more on top. I also bought a little collapsible stool so I can easily reach any bag. Then instead of dividing them by brand I switched to bags by color. When it was by brands I never knew what was in the dust cover.

I have done similar to this, I have most of mine arranged on open shelves in their dustbags but I have a large label with a colour picture hanging from each with the appropriate coloured ribbon to match the bag.

It's made it easy to identify where each bag is and also to select a bag to match an outfit. At one stage I was frantically looking through dustbags in a frantic last minute rush to get to work on time!

I've also made pillows for all of my bags so now instead of pulling out reams of tissue I just have a pillow which I leave on the spare bed

 

[dcooney4]

Arhhhhhh a girl after my own heart, sounds like a fabulous collection. The most I ever had was 40 at which point I felt for me enough was enough. I've chopped and changed a lot over the years to suit my life style but now I've "matured" I've come to a time My collection is no longer evolving & constantly changing & I just don't need so many. We are also looking to downsize our home so storage may become a problem.............although we are looking to possible buy 2 smaller properties, one abroad in which case I can split my collection between 2 homes



I have done similar to this, I have most of mine arranged on open shelves in their dustbags but I have a large label with a colour picture hanging from each with the appropriate coloured ribbon to match the bag.

It's made it easy to identify where each bag is and also to select a bag to match an outfit. At one stage I was frantically looking through dustbags in a frantic last minute rush to get to work on time!

I've also made pillows for all of my bags so now instead of pulling out reams of tissue I just have a pillow which I leave on the spare bed

What a great idea. I don't have time or the sewing talent at the moment, but I might try this in the future. Mine are always full of tissue even the nylon mz wallaces.

 

[Mulberrygal]

Everyone is different there is no right or wrong amount.

That is so true

Thank you. I love it so much! It's one of my favorite bags in my collection. I repeatedly have to stop myself from buying the black one. But I struggle with finding things in my unstructured bags. So I tell myself no.

Thank you.

Thanks!

That's very nice of you to say. I "only" have 8 Chanel items which make me very happy but is a teeny collection in TPF standards. LOL!

My bags are functional pieces of fashion that I use to compliment / enhance my outfit. So I need a good variety of bags. I have 23 bags in my "main" collection which are the bags I use 95% of the time. I also have 11 bags for special usages (beach bags, evening bags, carefree bags, etc.) so I limit but don't really count those. Over the next 5 years or so I plan to grown my main collection to approx. 30 bags give or take because I want variety but I refuse to own bags I don't wear regularly. And, I can't keep more than 30ish bags rotated effectively. Sometimes I struggle with 23.

8 Chanels sounds wonderful and 23 bags for everyday use very manageable. I found there were too many I didn't use when past 20 .

Gosh, this is such a busy thread. I can't keep up with all that's going on. I've so enjoyed looking through, don't know why I've only just come across it.

It's great that bags bring us together but fascinating to see how different we all are with requirements/needs. I keep thinking I must downsize whilst others are growing. I don't think my collection will be changing a great deal in the future, several of them are specials and mark significant milestones so I'll be keeping them forever

 

[ksuromax]

Yes, Black tee shirt and dark skinny jeans and boots.

lol this would work for anyone

 

[Mulberrygal]

What a great idea. I don't have time or the sewing talent at the moment, but I might try this in the future. Mine are always full of tissue even the nylon mz wallaces.

Yes I was the same, all my bags full of tissue. It was always a project that I'd planned but struggled to find the time. Once I got started I couldn't stop until it was finished and I'd got all cleared up .

I still have larger bags with tissue in as some needs stuffing into the corners. I plan eventually to make some dustbag style ones, then fill them with tissue which hopefully will reach the corners and give the extra structure............but that's probably for another year

 

[ksuromax]

Arhhhhhh a girl after my own heart, sounds like a fabulous collection. The most I ever had was 40 at which point I felt for me enough was enough. I've chopped and changed a lot over the years to suit my life style but now I've "matured" I've come to a time My collection is no longer evolving & constantly changing & I just don't need so many. We are also looking to downsize our home so storage may become a problem.............although we are looking to possible buy 2 smaller properties, one abroad in which case I can split my collection between 2 homes

I have done similar to this, I have most of mine arranged on open shelves in their dustbags but I have a large label with a colour picture hanging from each with the appropriate coloured ribbon to match the bag.

It's made it easy to identify where each bag is and also to select a bag to match an outfit. At one stage I was frantically looking through dustbags in a frantic last minute rush to get to work on time!

I've also made pillows for all of my bags so now instead of pulling out reams of tissue I just have a pillow which I leave on the spare bed

Thanks
i feel like i am maturing at the moment, don't really need anything else, but might WANT something later in a good colour ....
and having spent some time WITH all of them, i see which ones are 'here to stay' and which were impulse buys and probably have to leave
i have a tiny YSL Mombasa in bronze, i knew i wouldn't wear it much coz it's so tiny, but i just WANTED to get that deerhorn handle.... used it once, thank god it's small and doesn't take much space...
i can totatlly relate to different homes, but what holds me back yet from splitting my collection is that fact that some of my bags at some points of time will not be available so, for the time being they are with me where i live most of the time, and a few travel back and forth with me.
i LOOOVE your pillows! mine are stuffed either with each other, or tissue and bubbles, so when i use them, i need to find the place for the tissue and bubbles safe enough so nobody in the family bins them but pillows are definitely safe and good looking 'fillers' great idea!

 

[Bethanh]

I stuff mine with favourite clothes that my kids have grown out of - soft tshirts, sweaters - and then pretend that I'm not at all sentimental. [emoji4]

 

[bakeacookie]

What a great idea. I don't have time or the sewing talent at the moment, but I might try this in the future. Mine are always full of tissue even the nylon mz wallaces.

I stuff mine with IKEA pillows and blankets. Inexpensive and no sewing involved!

 

[msd_bags]

I have always loved this bag too. Is it very heavy?

I weighed it and it is 2.2 lbs (1 kilo). Just right really, only that of course, the lighter the better. Would probably have been perfect at 2lbs.