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.

 

[BowieFan1971]

+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.

No enabling necessary...I also have that Coach pebble tote that is a similar color to the gold Bolide, so still covered... But wow, was it stunning...and I have seen an older gold Clemence Bolide 31 for between $1000 and 1500.

Think black, Laura...black...black...black

 

[BowieFan1971]

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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.

Yes! Yes, you can!

 

[ElainePG]

In mid January, VintageDaddy died. In some ways, life has changed a little; in some ways, it’s been dramatically different.
Death during covid is weird. We weren’t allowed to see him in the hospital until 15 minutes before he passed away (and only two people could be there) and weren’t able to collect his personal possessions for a week. We just got the death certificate and ashes last week. Lord only knows when we’ll be able to have a celebration of life or an internment- we are tentatively think September. The usual rituals of grief are postponed and separated and scattered. And social security, VA benefits, life insurance don’t pay out without a death certificate. So my earring/selling fund paid for the cremation expenses and a month of mortgage payments and bills. Thank you, all my lovely buyers.

It’s been hard not to shop while grieving. So far, I’ve been sorta good, because I don’t want my things to be reminders of how stressed and overwhelmed I’ve been.

So, stats:


Bags In: 0
Bags Out: 1
Accessories In: 3
Jewelry and Accessories Out: 21
Total out : 276

My Total Outs are for my 2021 in 2021. The majority are from January, and only include sales, donations (no landfill, no trash!) and gifts. Gifts are only counted if solicited (ie sending family some of the glass art and marbles VintageMama and I made years ago, sending my aunt Vintage Daddy’s fountain pen collection and including several bottles from my ink... No dumping things on people with no need or desire for the thing.)

My three purchases are a pair of Mabe pearl earrings, a 90s era Philip Treacy straw hat with fabulous buckles, and a Collier de Chien bracelet (black box and gold). The CdC is a new style for me, so it may be returned, but I want to try it.

Oh, I'm so sorry. In a way, it feels as though the entire world has been in mourning for a year… and yet that seems to make our own personal losses (and I know we've all had them) enlarged rather than diminished. Having to be without the usual "letting go" ceremonies is a huge part of it. This is the time when family and friends want to gather, hold each other, cry together, and share good stories. It can be done via Zoom, of course (I'm sure many of us have done that) but it's just not the same.

Holding you in my heart.

 

[ElainePG]

Well, my Barbie got married to GI Joe at my friend's house. Ken wasn't even in the picture!

Okaaaaaaay. Now THAT makes a whole lot more sense!

 

[ElainePG]

The MM is a hera celeste merinos. Found a ticket to Tanglewood in the pocket, from a few years ago, so this bag probably had a bottle of wine in it, along with warm socks and a shawl (unpredictable summer nights in Massachusetts!).

Ohhhhhhh… Tanglewood. Such fond memories. My parents and I would go there when I was a little girl. Then when Mr. PG & I started dating, I borrowed my Mom's car (I was living in NYC at the time) and we went for a long weekend. He had never been, and it was so much fun to introduce him to this favorite place.

 

[BowieFan1971]

Okaaaaaaay. Now THAT makes a whole lot more sense!

GI Joe was a better catch than that pretty boy Ken!

 

[ElainePG]

It’s so good to “see” you @ElainePG. I have been inconsistent about being here but I think I read you weren’t feeling well for a while. I hope all is well.
I’m very sorry for your loss as well. And every life is precious.

Thanks, @Sparkletastic . I was recuperating from spine surgery, but I'm healing nicely, thanks for asking. I start physical therapy in a couple of weeks, and my surgeon has released me to drive, which makes me happy.

I've not been posting a lot (though I have been lurking & liking) because there's been a lot of Stuff going on. Nothing dreadful, but very time- and energy-consuming. It will eventually all sort itself out. At the moment, I have this mantra posted on my fridge: "I release control. I surrender to the flow."

 

[ElainePG]

Yes, it is very helpful to keep your hands busy to keep from snacking. It also gives me a sense of accomplishment. And yarn is a lot cheaper than new bags.

HAH! For sure!

 

[baghabitz34]

@baghabitz34 wonderful curated 5. I like your Charlie and your Gucci Soho Disco, is it blush pink?

Thanks! The color of the Disco is peonia. It’s a pinky-purple, if that makes sense.

 

[baghabitz34]

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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Beautiful story, thank you for sharing!

 

[Cookiefiend]

So I saw this photo the other day (credit to a TPFer but I can’t remember who), and it reminded me of a brief convo somewhere up-thread about having a ‘perfectly curated closet’.
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To me that phrase suggests having a slim number of quintessential, fabulous pieces, which would cover all situations. And then I had a hilarious mental exercise trying to figure out what those would be from MY collection.

I came up with the below, if I keep it to 5:
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Prada tote - work
Fendi peekaboo - fancier outings, conferences
Celine luggage - errands, around town
Proenza ps11 - dinners, festivals
Chanel WOC - formal events, night out

Curious to hear from others - which 5 bags from your closet would represent your ‘perfectly curated collection’? Or would this be bags you don’t have yet?

Edited to add: for me, this was not actually the same as what are my favorite 5 bags, more - which are the most classic, fabulous, AND versatile.

What a great question, and you are so right - these choices might not be the same as your favorites!

In September 2019, a few of us did a challenge in which we only carried 4 bags for the entire month. I carried my Vespa (summery still), Just Campagne Confort1 (tan), Proenza Schouler PS Courier Small (silver), and the LV LockMe Bucket (black). I did add my K at the end of the month because we made an unexpected trip to Chicago.

If I were to choose 5 bags that were part of a Perfectly Curated Closet (never happening but anyway!), I'd choose these bags:
Just Campagne Confort1 - a perfect neutral tote
Proenza Schouler PS Courier Small - for times when I need a bit of pizzazz
Nancy Gonzalez, Mini Erica Tote (black) - black crossbody
Hermes Kelly (black box leather) - I love this purse
For the 5th bag - toss up between the Ferragamo Studio Bag or the Ferragamo Studio Tote. Toss up because a black tote is indispensable, and a fun red bag is sometimes the pop you need!

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.

Heh... some of you may remember when I was stalked by the Ferragamo Studio bag. I had seen it in green on a thread, and started looking at them, going back and for the between the Ferragamo site, tPF and pre-owned sites.... then I started seeing it on the top banner or side banner of every website I went to. It was everywhere I went.
Resistance was futile.
So, I bought one and love it so much I'd love one in black too.

 

[880]

What a great question, and you are so right - these choices might not be the same as your favorites!

In September 2019, a few of us did a challenge in which we only carried 4 bags for the entire month. I carried my Vespa (summery still), Just Campagne Confort1 (tan), Proenza Schouler PS Courier Small (silver), and the LV LockMe Bucket (black). I did add my K at the end of the month because we made an unexpected trip to Chicago.

If I were to choose 5 bags that were part of a Perfectly Curated Closet (never happening but anyway!), I'd choose these bags:
Just Campagne Confort1 - a perfect neutral tote
Proenza Schouler PS Courier Small - for times when I need a bit of pizzazz
Nancy Gonzalez, Mini Erica Tote (black) - black crossbody
Hermes Kelly (black box leather) - I love this purse
For the 5th bag - toss up between the Ferragamo Studio Bag or the Ferragamo Studio Tote. Toss up because a black tote is indispensable, and a fun red bag is sometimes the pop you need!

Heh... some of you may remember when I was stalked by the Ferragamo Studio bag. I had seen it in green on a thread, and started looking at them, going back and for the between the Ferragamo site, tPF and pre-owned sites.... then I started seeing it on the top banner or side banner of every website I went to. It was everywhere I went.
Resistance was futile.
So, I bought one and love it so much I'd love one in black too.

The bag chose you!

 

[Jereni]

So sculptural! Very pretty. Would love to see how this wears.

Thank you!


Also, here are my bags for Pink/Purple Week. Pink is my favorite pop of color for a handbag, in my opinion it is the most versatile non-neutral on the color spectrum.

Chanel day trip, which is a seasonal flap from last season that is also out this season I think. Love this little guy. The flap always looks huuuge in photos but in person it’s a more rounded, cute little shape.



Bottega Veneta mini pouch in amaranto. I bought this before deciding to go big and get the large pouch in rust and now I sort of wish I’d gotten this color in the large also. It’s such a fabulous color, would be fun as a bold statement bag.


And third, my Chloe Aby lock mini satchel. This bag is sort of a weird peach/ tan but I’m including it for pink week regardless. I still keep thinking about letting go of this bag. It’s darling but ... I don’t know.

 

[More bags]

So I saw this photo the other day (credit to a TPFer but I can’t remember who), and it reminded me of a brief convo somewhere up-thread about having a ‘perfectly curated closet’.
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To me that phrase suggests having a slim number of quintessential, fabulous pieces, which would cover all situations. And then I had a hilarious mental exercise trying to figure out what those would be from MY collection.

I came up with the below, if I keep it to 5:
View attachment 5011524

Prada tote - work
Fendi peekaboo - fancier outings, conferences
Celine luggage - errands, around town
Proenza ps11 - dinners, festivals
Chanel WOC - formal events, night out

Curious to hear from others - which 5 bags from your closet would represent your ‘perfectly curated collection’? Or would this be bags you don’t have yet?

Edited to add: for me, this was not actually the same as what are my favorite 5 bags, more - which are the most classic, fabulous, AND versatile.

I love this mental bag exercise of "perfectly curated collection." I took a picture of my five and I didn't post it because it didn't look quite right.
I'm glad I saw @Cookiefiend 's post about the 4 bag challenge we did in September 2019. I love how Cookie's list then and now are so similar.

September 2019 we did a challenge to choose and carry only 4 bags. Back then I selected:

• Chanel Black Reissue 226
• Hermes Etain Bolide 31
• Hermes Etoupe Evelyne PM (29)
• Hermes Rouge H Garden Party 36

For this curated 5 challenge, not necessarily favourite bags, I choose:

• Celine Black Small Cabas Phantom with Belt
• Hermes Etain Bolide 31
• Chanel Burgundy Small Caviar Lizard Coco Handle
• Chanel Black Reissue 226
• Chanel Black Patent Coco Shine Small Flap

 

[doni]

I so admire all of your curated 5-bag wardrobes...
I am not able to do it. Whenever I think about it I start considering bags I am missing instead of bags I have.
Not good

Bottega Veneta mini pouch in amaranto. I bought this before deciding to go big and get the large pouch in rust and now I sort of wish I’d gotten this color in the large also. It’s such a fabulous color, would be fun as a bold statement bag.
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Don’t say that, your Rust Pouch is so wonderful!
This color is also beautiful. It is a kind of raspberry or?
But Rust...