2020 resolution - shopping my own bag and wallet collection. Any one else?
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These are fabulous! So distinctive. That Seeger is amazing. Thanks for sharing these, and organizing them by decade!
Taste is so interesting. How we cultivate and refine ours. I understand the practicality and thriftiness from your upbringing, and also how we get better at letting things go.That is FABULOUS to say! I’ve been very candid about the fact that when I started poking around tPF I had over 150 bags - most of which were tacky, crappy or just sad.I’m talking sub (or sub sub) contemporary / clearance bin yuckness.
Part of that is I did need to elevate my taste level. I come from very practical people who think “fashion” is foolishness. So, I had to learn about style and taste as an adult.
But, the bigger part is I wasn’t comfortable in spending money on myself. Those practical parents who raised me were also super thrifty savers. So, while I’m grateful they instilled that overall value system in me, I had to get over the money “issues“ I had. I’m still thriftybut I realized it makes far more sense for me to spend $3000 on one bag I’ll love and wear than $50 on 150 bags that sit in my closet and make me feel bad.
So, thank you very much for your compliment. It means a lot.
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Thanks for the compliment! I wouldn’t have thought I’d like the yellow either. But, I already had the blue and pink so I took a chance on it. I only wear her perhaps 3-4 times a year but, when I do she is a perfect fit for the outfit.
This is the best picture ever!!!! My face hurts from laughing.Funnies from the quarantine!
Ok, I’ve mentioned, I got married ridiculously young and had my babies shortly thereafter. While they were infants / toddlers, I was working full time as I finished grad school. Then my husband and I were busy building family and careers. So, looking “nice” at any level past serviceable / professional was the last thing on my list. Lol!
But, once my kids hit their teens, our lives were going well and I started dressing better (that’s also when I started addressing the horror that was my bag collection. LOL!). So, over the past few years, I’ve been having fun dressing well, being extra particular about my nails & hair, etc. (not a big makeup girl tho) and generally enjoying feeling girly.
<cue ominous music>
Then foot surgery, virus social distancing, working from home and cancelled vacations hit.
I don’t know how y’all are going on externally supported beauty processes but, it was getting kinda rough up in here. In an effort not to look like the love child of Sasquatch and Gollum, I’ve relearned the lost arts of plucking, manicuring, pedicuring, home hair coloring, sand blasting, spackling...
Because seriously... this meme is truth.
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What fun beauty processes are you rediscovering during the quarantine?
I have given my fingernails a total break from color. It looks weird to me, but I'm getting used to it. I don't dye my hair (whew!), but the eyebrows are going to need some attention when I emerge from hibernation.
Something for every occasion! Great collection.
It´s so cute and even if you do not use it very often I´m sure it is a very special item to own- a piece of art!
Thank-you! I fully understand you prefer the Diors.
The leather is truely gorgeous and most of them have this very special older Dior leather scent to them that has the ability to make me instantly happy.
Who is a veritable pavlovian dog? Haha!
The vintage bags are a field of collecting of their own.
I´ll do a bag hunt in my own closet/ room this week and dig out some more black Dior and some more unusual vintage bags while sparing you the standard vintage.
You have such a lovely pink collection! The little H horse bag charm is too cute!
Aww don´t worry about your roots! Fancy a laugh?
This is how I came home from the hairdresser (after a 3.5 hour procedure) when I asked for my whole head full of high/low lights with my grey/white still showing, but not around my face, please.
Hadn´t it been a half price Black Friday Special I would have been desparate!
This way I got a diy kit and just cared for the around my face area myself.
Re the mustache: being a dark haired/ light skinned "only scary `cause I´m hairy" woman I recommend the epilator.
"Mar. 22: Black" - YAAAY, this is my week
My favorite black bag (Aigner Diadora Lucida XS):
Radley wallet which I turned into a WOC:
My belovéd Aigner Diadora M:
This is my entire black bag collection:
And this is my most recent black bag purchase: (Longchamp nylon pouch!)
Can't wait to see/ read about everyone's black bags cos I'm obsessed
I love your Aigner bags, especially the Diadora Lucida! Is the hardware their usual shiny light gold or by any luck silver? I´m so yearning for a lovely Aigner with silver HW.
Aww, thank-you! I only was soooo disappointed to come home with this distinctive white hairline which is what I absolutely hate. I think it makes me look like an owl.
Running my fingers through the front part with two shades of dye makes such a difference... of course the pros don´t want to hear this and I´ve only ever been to one salon where they actually did it the same experimental way and made me happy.
Oooh a fellow Aigner lover, hey!
I think Aigner mainly uses gold hw, buut in the past I have seen collections with silver chains or at least gold & silver mixed. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that they come out with a silver hw line soon! Atm the only silver hw at Aigner I know of is from the men's collection (which I def love to shop from too occasionally!) And thank you so much 
My bags are all gold hardware, but as for their bags in general being more of a light gold, yes! Not all of their gold hw is super intense yellow gold- I'd say loads of it is champagne-gold or light yellow gold
