2021 Resolution: Shopping my own bag and SLG collection. Any one else?

[Sparkletastic]

NOVEMBER ACTIVITIES

1. Bags by Brand Showcase!

Each week, share photos of your bags from the specified brands. Choose a posed “beauty” shot or get your bags out and about in action shots!

We highlight 3 brands per week: 2 premier and 1 contemporary in alphabetical order as listed on tPF. Any brands not listed are showcased in our last week. Brands change to the next set each Sunday.

Our first brand week starts now - Sunday, Oct 31. Please share photos of bags from these brands:

• Bottega Venetta
• Burberry
• Alexander Wang

Tip: Grab your photos from last year in the 2020 resolution thread. Search your user name and the brand to find your photos.

2. Special Stories
Thanks @Claudia Herzog for the suggestion

Wear a bag that has a backstory involving a person, place, or opportunity for which you feel grateful.

 

[momasaurus]

Question for everyone! Tell us about the last time you immediately fell in must have, can’t stop thinking about it love with a bag? What was it? Did you buy it? Why or why not? If you did, was everything you expected? If not are you still on the hunt or have you let it go?

This came to mind as I was working on @Jereni ’s fun capsule challenge. It would be fun to add a bag since I haven’t in almost 2 years. But, nothing has made me swoon since I first saw the silver Microcannage Dior Diorama in 2015 (2014?) I remember thinking I NEEEEEDED that bag but kept trying to talk myself out of it. A year later, I finally bought it during my last trip to Paris and it’s truly my favorite bag. View attachment 5014481I want to have that same reaction again. But all new models are “yuck” to “meh” to me.

So, share - what was your last heartstopping bag moment.

This here is a totally fabulous bag~!!

 

[BowieFan1971]

I am not even into purple and looking at everybody’s collection I feel like I should be.



Yes and it is usually a mistake .
I tend to think over my purchases a lot. With new launches I feel very enthusiastic at first, and then the thrill dies down, so I know not to make impulsive buys.

Those are more frequent with vintage bags, because they are more unique and they are a weakness. I once went to the market for fish and came back with a Chanel bag instead. I bought my vintage Constance on impulse too and it is one of my more treasured bags. I love that feeling of finding something sort of by chance.

That said, my first Constance was a box and toile from the late 60s that I had always thought was one of my dream bags. I couldn’t believe it when I found it in beautiful condition and went for it without a second thought. And then I never wore it.

Never wore it? And you own other Cs that worked for you? That’s really sad!

 

[momasaurus]

@sherrylynn lovely blue bags and congratulations on adopting Jolene!
@880 beautiful outfit/bag pics, love the Long Graffiti Alma, boucle jacket and Sellier Evelyne.
@whateve fun looking sequin bags!
@momasaurus gorgeous blue bags, I love your Dalvy and your barenia pico with contrast handles. Stunning Trim family.

Thanks so much. The contrast handles on the Pico sealed the deal.

 

[Jereni]

I once went to the market for fish and came back with a Chanel bag instead.

This made me giggle.

Regarding your overall point about instant bag love, I’ve have a similar pattern. When I have massive, instant, can’t stop thinking about it bag love - it is usually a mistake to buy it right then. I find that if I wait, the obsession dies off. So my approach is to try not to buy right away, to sit on it for a few days or weeks and really think about whether I want it in my wardrobe.

I also have that wardrobe app Stylebook. Before I buy any bag, I get its stock photo and see what variety of outfits I can make with it. That tells me a lot about how often I’d wear something.

 

[880]

Those are more frequent with vintage bags, because they are more unique and they are a weakness. I once went to the market for fish and came back with a Chanel bag instead. I bought my vintage Constance on impulse too and it is one of my more treasured bags. I love that feeling of finding something sort of by chance.

That said, my first Constance was a box and toile from the late 60s that I had always thought was one of my dream bags. I couldn’t believe it when I found it in beautiful condition and went for it without a second thought. And then I never wore it.

This is the story of my retail buying life! When I first started buying chanel RTW in 1998 I would buy a few pieces a year. At one point I decided that I would exercise and not take taxis and make sure I was above temptation by not 5aking cash or cc. It was raining and I stopped at chanel to use the bathroom, and my SA sold me a rain jacket. ( back then, they kept everyth8ngnon file). I still have it, and wear it occasionally. It’s great and I love it, but I wouldn’t have bought it. Of course, prices were lower bac’ then and it was 795 usd.
I have, I recent years, successfully resisted the lure of vintage bags by only buying styles that are time tested. But my watch list is enormous and I try not to open it. I’m also obsessed with the idea of a 2018 bag called the Simone (actually I adore the trench coat that accompanied it) . It’s my french schoolgirl fashion obsession and I know not to indulge. Probably the greater danger now is I buy bags that I have already owned and sold once or twice before. Oy!
@Hazzelnut, I love LOVE your ring story below! And the ring of course!
@msd_bags, +1 baking!
@More bags, thank you!
@Smspp, of course you can still wear pink! That bag is gorgeous!

 

[Hazzelnut]

I’ve been spending my day in work posting about International Women’s Day (I’m a Social Media Manager so I promise I haven’t been slacking off!) and thought I’d share one of my favourite things I own!

I’ve always been a collector of vintage jewellery (spurred on my very fashionable Nana) and there was an antique jewellers in Oxford I used to make a point of passing to just gaze longingly into the window.

About a week before I moved back to Belfast I was standing at the window gazing at the ring which always caught my eye. I felt so strongly that I needed to buy it, even though I was a broke graduate who barely had any pennies left in her bank account.

I blinked and I was suddenly standing in the shop holding the ring. The owner had remarked she’d seen me regularly staring at it and asked if I knew the history of the ring.

Well, the stone of the ring was from a piece of suffragette jewellery. Unfortunately, when the granddaughter of the woman came in to try and sell it the other stones were too badly damaged to be used, but she reset the purple one with a design to hint at the banners they carried.

After hearing that I knew it had to be mine, I had just finished my degree in sociology with a focus on the history of feminism in society.

Every time I look at that ring I think of it’s history and of the strong women who have surrounded me (especially my Nana). I may not be able to wear it at the moment, but I have it sitting on my desk today just to make me smile.

Completely off-topic, but I wanted to share. Hope that’s ok

 

[doni]

Never wore it? And you own other Cs that worked for you? That’s really sad!

Nope, not once.
My other C, which I never looked for but found me, is one of my most carried bags ever!
But not sad. Eventually, after some years, I sold it. And for a profit. I believe that was the first time that I realized you could sell bags to make up for a mistake. Although I am not sure whether that discovery was a good or a bad thing .

 

[doni]

I’ve been spending my day in work posting about International Women’s Day (I’m a Social Media Manager so I promise I haven’t been slacking off!) and thought I’d share one of my favourite things I own!

I’ve always been a collector of vintage jewellery (spurred on my very fashionable Nana) and there was an antique jewellers in Oxford I used to make a point of passing to just gaze longingly into the window.

About a week before I moved back to Belfast I was standing at the window gazing at the ring which always caught my eye. I felt so strongly that I needed to buy it, even though I was a broke graduate who barely had any pennies left in her bank account.

I blinked and I was suddenly standing in the shop holding the ring. The owner had remarked she’d seen me regularly staring at it and asked if I knew the history of the ring.

Well, the stone of the ring was from a piece of suffragette jewellery. Unfortunately, when the granddaughter of the woman came in to try and sell it the other stones were too badly damaged to be used, but she reset the purple one with a design to hint at the banners they carried.

After hearing that I knew it had to be mine, I had just finished my degree in sociology with a focus on the history of feminism in society.

Every time I look at that ring I think of it’s history and of the strong women who have surrounded me (especially my Nana). I may not be able to wear it at the moment, but I have it sitting on my desk today just to make me smile.

Completely off-topic, but I wanted to share. Hope that’s ok

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Wonderful ring and wonderful story! So perfect for today!
(and Happy Women’s Day to everyone by the way).

I also love vintage jewelry. I don’t get it when people reset stones in heirloom rings to make them look like every other single ring in the market...

This is the story of my retail buying life! When I first started buying chanel RTW in 1998 I would buy a few pieces a year. At one point I decided that I would exercise and not take taxis and make sure I was above temptation by not 5aking cash or cc. It was raining and I stopped at chanel to use the bathroom, and my SA sold me a rain jacket. ( back then, they kept everyth8ngnon file). I still have it, and wear it occasionally. It’s great and I love it, but I wouldn’t have bought it. Of course, prices were lower bac’ then and it was 795 usd.
I have, I recent years, successfully resisted the lure of vintage bags by only buying styles that are time tested. But my watch list is enormous and I try not to open it. I’m also obsessed with the idea of a new bag called the Simone. It’s my french schoolgirl fashion obsession and I know not to indulge. Probably the greater danger now is I buy bags that I have already owned and sold once or twice before. Oy!
@Hazzelnut, I love LOVE your ring story below! And the ring of course!

Ah, the Simone is the perfect example of a beautiful bag that one may become obssessed with and which is more likely than anything to sit in the closet forever!

 

[BowieFan1971]

This is the story of my retail buying life! When I first started buying chanel RTW in 1998 I would buy a few pieces a year. At one point I decided that I would exercise and not take taxis and make sure I was above temptation by not 5aking cash or cc. It was raining and I stopped at chanel to use the bathroom, and my SA sold me a rain jacket. ( back then, they kept everyth8ngnon file). I still have it, and wear it occasionally. It’s great and I love it, but I wouldn’t have bought it. Of course, prices were lower bac’ then and it was 795 usd.
I have, I recent years, successfully resisted the lure of vintage bags by only buying styles that are time tested. But my watch list is enormous and I try not to open it. I’m also obsessed with the idea of a new bag called the Simone. It’s my french schoolgirl fashion obsession and I know not to indulge. Probably the greater danger now is I buy bags that I have already owned and sold once or twice before. Oy!
@Hazzelnut, I love LOVE your ring story below! And the ring of course!

I feel that way about the Gold Bolide Clemence 31 with contrast stitching I saw last week in the flesh at Hermès...instant HG. I LOVED it! It was everything!!!! But I already have a brown dome bag— even though it is a LV mono bag that is not as “versatile”— that I will never sell because it was a gift from my DH. I don’t NEED another brown dome bag that’s almost the exact same size. No matter what kind of excuses I want to use, I just don’t. So I won’t. I will use my Alma and be happy.

A black one....now that could happen...

 

[BowieFan1971]

I’ve been spending my day in work posting about International Women’s Day (I’m a Social Media Manager so I promise I haven’t been slacking off!) and thought I’d share one of my favourite things I own!

I’ve always been a collector of vintage jewellery (spurred on my very fashionable Nana) and there was an antique jewellers in Oxford I used to make a point of passing to just gaze longingly into the window.

About a week before I moved back to Belfast I was standing at the window gazing at the ring which always caught my eye. I felt so strongly that I needed to buy it, even though I was a broke graduate who barely had any pennies left in her bank account.

I blinked and I was suddenly standing in the shop holding the ring. The owner had remarked she’d seen me regularly staring at it and asked if I knew the history of the ring.

Well, the stone of the ring was from a piece of suffragette jewellery. Unfortunately, when the granddaughter of the woman came in to try and sell it the other stones were too badly damaged to be used, but she reset the purple one with a design to hint at the banners they carried.

After hearing that I knew it had to be mine, I had just finished my degree in sociology with a focus on the history of feminism in society.

Every time I look at that ring I think of it’s history and of the strong women who have surrounded me (especially my Nana). I may not be able to wear it at the moment, but I have it sitting on my desk today just to make me smile.

Completely off-topic, but I wanted to share. Hope that’s ok

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Love this!!!!!!

 

[msd_bags]

Thank you! imo no one does color like BV!




Love the Gucci and Bottega Veneta. Can I ask what the official colors are?

Lovely! Do you know the color name of that BV intrecciato? So subtle and nice.

Unfortunately, I don’t know the official color name of the BV Nodini. Bought it pre-loved in Japan. I posted in the BV identify thread, can’t recall the suggestions, but one was Orchid? Can’t recall the other possibilities. It’s a great crossbody!!

i just realized now that the Gucci is another bag I bought in Japan. I think color is Vintage Rose (Old Rose?).

 

[JenJBS]

Unfortunately, I don’t know the official color name of the BV Nodini. Bought it pre-loved in Japan. I posted in the BV identify thread, can’t recall the suggestions, but one was Orchid? Can’t recall the other possibilities. It’s a great crossbody!!

i just realized now that the Gucci is another bag I bought in Japan. I think color is Vintage Rose (Old Rose?).

Thanks!

 

[880]

I remember feeling exactly the same way when I say this stingray Chanel in the boutique. I didn't buy it though. I couldn't figure out how I would use it enough to justify the expense. It was stunning!

+1000. But, I bought a no name stingray clutch that yellowed in the closet (and I don’t expose my bags to light or sun) Same with ring lizard Manolo’s. Cured me of certain types of exotics that have white.
Thank you, @More bags, for your kind words! Hugs
@BowieFan1971, if you would like enablement, a gold bolide isn’t exactly brown, but yes, IMO black should be the next bag. There are many bolides on rhe secondary market for massive discounts.

 

[dcooney4]

Don't even ask me to select a capsule collection if my handbags, I just cannot do it!

I have only one purple bag, Coach Legacy Garcia satchel in amethyst:
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And pinks I have three. First is my Kate Spade Ava. I had this crazy desire for a croc embossed pink bag- don't ask me why, I have no idea! So when I saw this one I had to have it. It's a great date night bag:
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My third and final Coach Bleecker Daily bag in pink ruby:
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My Coach Madison hobo in neutral pink:
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And I have a small kisslock coin Purse in pale pink too:
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Beautiful pinks!

 

[Smspp]

My pink Kate Spade bag was a push present which I received January 2019. I carried it frequently all throughout 2019. However I haven’t used it since the start of 2020, not sure if I can still pull off this bright pink now that I’m in my thirties.