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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I am really lucky. I can wear any color except lavender (which transforms into a sickly grey on me) and a muddy shade of brown. And I don't like either color, so they aren't a loss. LOL!
I love color. My easiest to put together combos are black, white and grey with pops of jewel tones and bright shades or red, blue and green (ruby, cobalt, sapphire, emerald, fuchsia, true pink, turquoise, etc.) But I also look good in citrus colors like orange and yellow. I just find those two colors harder to find in the styles I like. And I can always go monochromatic. So I just play with my clothes to get a great look that fits my activities and mood of the day. Yesterday I felt rocket chick so I had a "band" T and jeans. That evening I felt sexy girlie so floaty dress and heels. Both with and attention getting gold bag. Today it's business wear - grey dress, black bag, black heels. All quiet.
Since I joined this thread I've been testing out a few earth tones that I would have NEVER worn - beige, cocoa, caramel, chocolate and kinda like them a little bit. I'll still avoid rust, burnt orange, goldenrod, hunter green like the plague because I don't care for them at all.
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.
Thanks for the kind words. I contacted the nearest YSL boutique which is 3 hours away. I sent the SA some photos and she said she'll try to help me. I have no idea what that will mean. I'm a little worried about taking it to a generic cobbler because of the black hardware.
The suede bag is going back. I had one place say they can clean it but since Leather Surgeons - the top Chanel repair shop said no, I'm scared to try and then get stuck with a grungy bag I won't wear.
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
I LOOOOOOOVE your idea of the pillows and am so stealing it! I don't have the time or interest to make them - I really should get back to sewing
- but I can order some from eBay. Thanks for sharing!
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
Thanks for the comment.
I am constantly reminding myself to only buy what I love
and will wear. Otherwise I would surely end up overwhelmed with 100+ pretty bags
I always wonder how / why people will have lots of bags that they love, be frustrated that they don't wear them and then still continue to buy lots of new bags when the new season's line up arrives. I can understand someone who is happy to just collect / own bags and not wear them. It's not my "thing" but people collect tons of things like cars, baseball cards and crystal. So, why not bags. I can also completely understand large collections for variety, long time collectors who add over the years and keep cherished bags or those who have lots of bags because their style has changed / evolved.
I just get puzzled by those who are
frustrated with not using their bags - some that they have even only owned for a year or two - or who are scared of using their bags and still buy more. Perhaps it's shopping addiction? I dunno. But I see a lot of that on TPF.
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Ok. So to appropriately answer your question on color combos. Yep, I definitely do: grey with pink or turquoise, pink with turquoise, burgundy with pink, pink and green. And this is funny to me as I type because I realize I pair pink with a lot but I don't wear pink that often. Or at least I don't think I do... 
Do I???
i am just accepting the signs of wear as they come along. I take care of them, clean, pamper and store in dustbags, you will not see any of them standing on the floor either 
