2019 resolution - shopping my own bag and wallet collection. Any one else?

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More bags said:
Great totes! I carried my Garden Party for multiple errands, recycling my pic from a couple of weeks ago.
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Beautiful view and pretty bouquet. Fantastic that you took the day off to visit with your friend. I hope you had a wonderful day.


My view looks similar to dcooney’s view - deep winter. stay warm dc!
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This is such a lovely sight! Thank you for posting this trio. I love pictures like this...including your pen and scarf!
 
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papertiger said:
Great totes!

I was wearing my Gucci Bamboo Top-handle again. Sorry, I seem to be using it every time someone asks. I also wore my Gucci enamel tiger-heads belt from 2012 as I need to extend my shopping from my closet to all items not just bag.

I had to go into Gucci to change something after a meeting (that yellow enamel and silver, cat brooch for another without the rough edge on the pin). I may have bought another scarf too just waiting for the exchange *so dangerous). It's a silk hoody basically. Here's a link (not sure what it's doing under Men's accessories but anyway) https://www.gucci.com/ca/en/pr/men/...-silk-hood-with-flora-print-p-5483134G1839272 I like that it's waterproof silk and double thickness (lined with pink silk at the top). I'm thinking that it can make all my Summer cardigans into hoodies, as you all know I hate my head getting cold.
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What a nifty idea! I'm guessing it folds up, just as all scarves do, so you would carry it in your tote and just whip it out and pop it on if it starts raining? Or is the concept that you wear it over your cardigan with the hood flipped to your back indoors, just as a fashion accessory (because it's so pretty), and then flip up the hood to cover your head when you go outside?
 
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Sparkletastic said:
I am having a rough work week. So I actually used both of my totes. The Knomo and my new Chanel. I swear this Knomo wears like iron. It looks new and I have abused it and used it to death.
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What are all of you carrying today?
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catsinthebag said:
I remember the MJ Blake! It was a great bag.

I think I may have told the story of my first luxury bag here so if you’ve heard it already, my apologies! When DH and I met, I was earning very little money and although I always loved bags, at that point in my life I was thrilled if I found a Stone Mountain bag on sale (oh my how things have changed!). DH-to-be was earning more than five times my income — he is older than I and already had a lot of professional success when we met. We had only been dating a couple of months and were at the at NYC apartment of a female friend of his whose style I admired, which is when I saw her bag — luxurious black pebbled leather, leather-lined, like a briefcase but much more casual, with a wide, adjustable cross-body leather strap. There it was, the dream bag I hadn’t even known existed, tossed casually in the corner alongside her work heels. I couldn’t help but exclaim over it. I don’t think I’d ever had that kind of visceral reaction to a handbag. I didn’t even know what brand it was.

The brand, it turned out, was Mark Cross, and the model was called the Murphy bag. This was in 1993 and it retailed for $550. At the time, I don’t think I had ever paid more than $60 for a bag. It was simply out of reach, so I filed it away in my brain under the category of “someday. Maybe.”

Of course, DH-to-be got it for me for Chrismas a month or two later. I say “of course” because in retrospect, I realize my longing for that bag must have been obvious. And he wanted to make me happy. For him, it was a simple equation — this bag will make her happy, therefore I’m getting it for her. For me, it was so much more.

I still have the bag, of course. It’s fantastically heavy and doesn’t have anything resembling a cell phone pocket, but I’ll never get rid of it. The quality is top-notch, btw. I wore the heck out of it — at the time, it was my nicest bag by a long shot so it went everywhere with with me — and it still looks almost new.
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Well you simply must post a picture of it! Ah Yes Mark Cross .. theyre back but I dont know the current line.
 
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gracekelly said:
I guess raisin counts as purple so here are a couple for the week. Raisin box Birkin
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Raisin chevre Bolide
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The luster on that box leather! Raisin with gold hardware is simply luscious!!
 
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ElainePG said:
What a nifty idea! I'm guessing it folds up, just as all scarves do, so you would carry it in your tote and just whip it out and pop it on if it starts raining? Or is the concept that you wear it over your cardigan with the hood flipped to your back indoors, just as a fashion accessory (because it's so pretty), and then flip up the hood to cover your head when you go outside?
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It folds up easily and has its own silk Flora pouch, so very portable. Only time will tell how it proves most useful but it's for those days it looks warmer than it is indoors ad outdoors. It's so pretty. They had brighter coloured ones (pink or orange) too that are really for rain but they weren't silk but this one's a whole other level.
 
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papertiger said:
It folds up easily and has its own silk Flora pouch, so very portable. Only time will tell how it proves most useful but it's for those days it looks warmer than it is indoors ad outdoors. It's so pretty. They had brighter coloured ones (pink or orange) too that are really for rain but they weren't silk but this one's a whole other level.
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I imagine it would be really useful especially in places where it rains during the summer.
 
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