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.

 

[keodi]

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These are my current pinks. The first 4 are Coach, the one on the right is Henri Bendel. New to me since last year is the second and third bags, Coach Sabrina and Emery.

I love the colour on the coach Emery!

These are my purple bags. Nothing has changed since last year.
Left to right, Coach Anniversary Willis, Balenciaga Velo in bleu lavande, Bottega Veneta tote, and Longchamp Leather drawstring.View attachment 5014374

Beautiful line up!

Hello ladies!! Just quickly popping in. I see that we’re on Pink week. I have a few and I just couldn’t resist the chance to post.
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Sorry these are old photos.

Sorry for being MIA. Just so many things going on with work and rekindled passion for baking.

Beautiful Pink collection, the Cassie is my fave!

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.

She's a stunna for sure!

I will post my pink bags later or tomorrow, but wanted to share my successful project of the day!

I added a shelf towards the top of my closet and I’m so happy! My pretties can spread out a little more and my rust BV pouch has a space now.

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Now I’m scheming on all kinds of other places to add shelves...

Beautiful display!

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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lovely Pinks!

I like this question! Unfortunately I feel like I do that with way more bags than is reasonable.

One that comes to mind is the rainbow iridescent stingray Chanel wallet on chain from a few years back. Saw it in the boutique and just had heart palpitations.
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I bought it, and it WAS gorgeous, but I was too scared to wear it really and the minute I saw the slightest bit of creasing on the top of the flap I panicked and sold it, lol. Don’t really regret selling it though. In the end I think it was a touch too blingy for me.

The other one I felt that way about was my Fendi peekaboo. And bless the handbag gods, I still feel that way about it. If I could afford to have a second one boxed up in reserve for when this one falls apart, I would do it lol.
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I love your choices that Fendi!

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 ring and the story behind it!

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.
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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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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.
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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

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I love your curation! the celine tote is beautiful! is it still in your collection?

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



Don’t say that, your Rust Pouch is so wonderful!
This color is also beautiful. It is a kind of raspberry or?
But Rust...

Same! lol!

 

[Cookiefiend]

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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What a wonderful story, and a beautiful ring.

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.
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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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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.
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The Chanel is beautiful!!

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

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These are wonderfu!l
I still love your Coco Handle

 

[dcooney4]

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.
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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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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.
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Lovely selections. Love the Chanel on you.

 

[More bags]

I love your curation! the celine tote is beautiful! is it still in your collection?

Thank you dear keodi. Yes, I still have the Celine tote - it's my one black tote.

These are wonderfu!l
I still love your Coco Handle

Thank you so much Cookie. I still mentally dance with joy when I bring out my Coco Handle, she's definitely a favourite!

 

[dcooney4]

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

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Gorgeous!❤️❤️❤️❤️

 

[BowieFan1971]

So interesting to see people’s 5. Gives such a sense of what colors (or not ) people center their wardrobes around. For me, browns and tans are so essential that I could not fathom having only black and grey bags. I hardly ever use black or grey, but so many of you have them at the heart of your essentials. And then we have the one color centric collection that goes against all the rules...I love that! And the styles...so many essentials that feature quilted bags like Chanel or Dior, bags/styles that I don’t ever see being in my wardrobe, let alone an essential (notice I did not say never LOL).

I love how diverse we all are, but are able to have bags in common and/or genuinely appreciate bags on others that are not “us” without losing site of who we are and what works for us. That’s really cool!

 

[JenJBS]

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.
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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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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.
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Pretty pink bags!

I love how diverse we all are, but are able to have bags in common and/or genuinely appreciate bags on others that are not “us” without losing site of who we are and what works for us. That’s really cool!

+100. Beautifully said, and so true!

 

[Jereni]

Don’t say that, your Rust Pouch is so wonderful!
This color is also beautiful. It is a kind of raspberry or?
But Rust...

Oh don’t get me wrong - I don’t wish I’d gotten this one *instead* of the rust. That rust is EVERYTHING lol.

I wish I gotten this in the large pouch also lol. I reeeally like the large pouch. I’m actually finding the small pouch a little difficult to get things in and out of.

 

[whateve]

So interesting to see people’s 5. Gives such a sense of what colors (or not ) people center their wardrobes around. For me, browns and tans are so essential that I could not fathom having only black and grey bags. I hardly ever use black or grey, but so many of you have them at the heart of your essentials. And then we have the one color centric collection that goes against all the rules...I love that! And the styles...so many essentials that feature quilted bags like Chanel or Dior, bags/styles that I don’t ever see being in my wardrobe, let alone an essential (notice I did not say never LOL).

I love how diverse we all are, but are able to have bags in common and/or genuinely appreciate bags on others that are not “us” without losing site of who we are and what works for us. That’s really cool!

While I love brown bags, I struggle to fit them in with my wardrobe. I never wear beige (it looks terrible on me) and almost never wear colors I think go well with brown. Nearly everything in my wardrobe goes with black. When I wear brown bags, I feel I have to wear brown shoes, then I have to pick clothes that look okay with brown shoes. The last two days I've carried my MK green suede bag with brown trim. It was difficult picking my clothes to look good with both green and brown.

 

[BowieFan1971]

While I love brown bags, I struggle to fit them in with my wardrobe. I never wear beige (it looks terrible on me) and almost never wear colors I think go well with brown. Nearly everything in my wardrobe goes with black. When I wear brown bags, I feel I have to wear brown shoes, then I have to pick clothes that look okay with brown shoes. The last two days I've carried my MK green suede bag with brown trim. It was difficult picking my clothes to look good with both green and brown.

I wear jeans most of the time and find I like the look of brown with them far more than black. Navy too. And I like the warmth of saddle/British tan/Hermès gold color with the medium to charcoal greys sweaters/tees/cardis I wear. Makes grey less stuffy, more approachable.

 

[BowieFan1971]

Ahhhhhh! So excited!!!! I can finally start planning our long delayed honeymoon! Italy, here we come!!!!!
Thinking maybe November, leave on Saturday, come back the following Tuesday. I want to see Florence, Venice, Rome, Adriatic coast. I want to eat amazing food! See art and architecture! Shop at a farmers market for fresh food! Get a pretty little piece of jewelry on the Ponte del Vecchio! Take a gondola ride! Walk through historic neighborhoods through narrow old streets! Smell the lavender and rosemary in the countryside and hear the ocean from a cliff side medieval village! I have wanted to go there forever and now I am finally going!!!!!!!!!
Any tips/suggestions/places to stay?

 

[Jereni]

The last two days I've carried my MK green suede bag with brown trim. It was difficult picking my clothes to look good with both green and brown.

I mean... if you’re saying you’re having trouble pairing things with that MK bag...

 

[whateve]

I mean... if you’re saying you’re having trouble pairing things with that MK bag...

lol!

 

[Kimbashop]

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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I love this story, everything about it. It makes the ring even more beautiful (and it is already a stunner).

 

[Sparkletastic]

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.

OMG! I’m just the opposite. Every time I fixate on a bag over months and buy it, it ends up being one of my most used bags. Usually because it’s that perfect mix of lust meets rational thinking.
It’s when I presume something is going to work and buy it quickly in (false) confidence that I mess up. So, I try to wait for the googoo eyed hunger beast before I buy. Lol!

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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What a lovely story!

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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.

LOL! Pink does not have an age limit. I fully intend to wear a pink bag in my casket! Colors and styles aren’t so much age specific as personal style / frame / taste specific. Enjoy what you love.

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

Totally agree. I’d take the manly man over the pretty boy any day

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."

Sending you many hugs and hoping all will be well.

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

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Swoon!!! Lovely collection. I could absolutely see you stylishly moving through life with these bags.