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.

 

[cowgirlsboots]

I don't understand that either. I can understand not washing something that is supposed to be dry clean only, but I would spot clean and press. I've wrapped scarves carefully with lots of tissue but I don't know if they still look pressed by the time they are received. Once I shipped some clothing but I explained in the listing that it would arrive wrinkled as the cheapest way to ship was to basically shrink wrap it so it would fit in a flat rate envelope.

The scarf is very pretty! The upside is that you usually get these items cheaper due to the seller's poor presentation.

When I received the rather big cardboard envelop I fully expected it folded nicely with tissue paper- what I got was it crumpled up in a thin yellow plastic bag. Carelessly... it did not even safe on shipping (which for me was free anyway) as the envelop would have perfectly held a nicely folded scarf.

Thank-you! I really like the scarf! The colours are perfect for me, the silk is nice quality and it´s a decent size. And yes, it was fairly cheap.

 

[msd_bags]

Hello ladies! Just a quick drive by to say that things are well for me. The situation is still bad in our country, but we are coping. It’s just that it gets more real when people you know are already the ones being infected with the virus. Anyways, hope things get better here in thenext few days and weeks.

 

[whateve]

I don’t think I have multi-color bags that I haven’t shared as part of a color week. But wanted to share another recent acquisition, which is the Valextra Iside in Oyster.

LOVING this bag. It’s funny, because I am also going thru a phase of wanting smoosh soft leather bags, and yet I love this. It is so classy and cures me of needing a Kelly.

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That is very pretty and classic! I love the texture.

 

[BowieFan1971]

I've shown my other multi-colored bags recently, but here are two more that are truly multi-colored.
Brighton and Coach Kaffe Fassett
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That Brighton is so cute!

 

[whateve]

I don't think I've shared this new bag I bought. I had ordered it at the end of March. They sent me the wrong thing, but after I called, they sent out the correct one. It is a Coach Cashin 22 in cerise. The color is the perfect fuchsia, which is a color I had been looking for all last year. I had already gotten a fuchsia bag, very cheaply, last year but I couldn't resist this as it is a copy of a vintage Coach design from the 1960s, as shown in the second picture. Although I felt guilty about buying a new bag, I've found the style to be very easy to use. It has a central zip compartment and two open sections, both with pockets. It keeps me organized and I can easily pull out a mask, my phone or my sunglasses without having to unzip anything.

 

[BowieFan1971]

When I received the rather big cardboard envelop I fully expected it folded nicely with tissue paper- what I got was it crumpled up in a thin yellow plastic bag. Carelessly... it did not even safe on shipping (which for me was free anyway) as the envelop would have perfectly held a nicely folded scarf.

Thank-you! I really like the scarf! The colours are perfect for me, the silk is nice quality and it´s a decent size. And yes, it was fairly cheap.

That’s like the person who shipped that scarf I hated to send back. Who puts a silk scarf with a white background selling for $200 straight into an envelope? No tissue, no plastic bag or outer wrap. Nothing. That was asking for it to get damaged and returned, even if it left the seller’s pristine.

 

[BowieFan1971]

Hello ladies! Just a quick drive by to say that things are well for me. The situation is still bad in our country, but we are coping. It’s just that it gets more real when people you know are already the ones being infected with the virus. Anyways, hope things get better here in thenext few days and weeks.

Hugs!!!!!!

 

[southernbelle43]

Good Luck!
Now to hope UPS works properly! I hate UPS. Our driver is a nuissance and when I do not lurk at the window and run out to meet him the moment he arrives he will just drive away, again... "no doorbell". Exactly. But all the other couriers know what to do. This man doesn´t and I have explained it to him many times.

You should report him to UPS.

 

[BowieFan1971]

I don’t think I have multi-color bags that I haven’t shared as part of a color week. But wanted to share another recent acquisition, which is the Valextra Iside in Oyster.

LOVING this bag. It’s funny, because I am also going thru a phase of wanting smoosh soft leather bags, and yet I love this. It is so classy and cures me of needing a Kelly.

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Wow

 

[Cookiefiend]

Someone compromised my credit card, so a new one was sent to my US address. The forwarder there doesn't send international mail signature required, so I had them send it to my friend in California, who paid for (and I will pay her back for) signature required. I haven't left the apartment since Sunday. Today my bf goes out to take the recycling, and there's the UPS note. They didn't even ring the bell, and they left it at a nearby convenience store. I hate UPS so, so much.

That‘s just ridiculous
(I hope I haven’t offended anyone, this meme gives me the giggles tho)

Card retrieved, huzzah!

I do think about purses, really. I decided to give away a small light gray bag as I never wear it. As I was pulling it out, I found my long-lost-and-long-replaced passport, and a map of Barcelona. Hmm. Barcelona was in 2014...

I do want a small light gray bag (just not that one, clearly!) so I've been hunting rather obsessively. After hours of looking at purses, I decided I really want a "wedding" version of my "funeral" purse, the Lola by Hobo Intl. It's a 20-year old purse, and not luxury at all, but functional, structured so slightly formal, tucks unobtrusively under my arm and has no logos. And I personally think it's really pretty. (Image from Amazon - ooh, it came in plum!)
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Of course, it never sold here, so I may break down and buy a few from Ebay US, and possibly repaint to the color(s) I want. If so, I'll need handholding, probably.

On the other end of the cost spectrum, Hermes came out with a Calvi with an integrated coin purse, which makes it the perfect tiny wallet, and there's one left on the German site. In Rouge H. For $400 Euros, which is completely ridiculous, especially given my rainbow of normal Calvis.

Rouge H...

I bought a scarf...

When it first arrived (VC, direct shipping) I was disappointed. It was crumpled and looked dirty. After a wash- ignoring the "dryclean only" tag- and pressing it looks really nice.

It was cheap, but still I do not understand why a professional seller does send something out that really needs a wash and pressing.

Shipping by DHL express from France was very quick.

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It looks amazing!
Im glad you went ahead and washed it, good on you!
I don’t understand sellers or resellers like VC and TRR - the last scarf I bought from them arrived wadded up and wrinkled in one of their dust bags... erm... okay?

I've shown my other multi-colored bags recently, but here are two more that are truly multi-colored.
Brighton and Coach Kaffe Fassett
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I love love love this Coach! So beautiful!

I don’t think I have multi-color bags that I haven’t shared as part of a color week. But wanted to share another recent acquisition, which is the Valextra Iside in Oyster.

LOVING this bag. It’s funny, because I am also going thru a phase of wanting smoosh soft leather bags, and yet I love this. It is so classy and cures me of needing a Kelly.

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< averting my eyes, because I do not need this... I just want this beautiful bag! >

Hello ladies! Just a quick drive by to say that things are well for me. The situation is still bad in our country, but we are coping. It’s just that it gets more real when people you know are already the ones being infected with the virus. Anyways, hope things get better here in thenext few days and weeks.

i hope they improve as well!

I don't think I've shared this new bag I bought. I had ordered it at the end of March. They sent me the wrong thing, but after I called, they sent out the correct one. It is a Coach Cashin 22 in cerise. The color is the perfect fuchsia, which is a color I had been looking for all last year. I had already gotten a fuchsia bag, very cheaply, last year but I couldn't resist this as it is a copy of a vintage Coach design from the 1960s, as shown in the second picture. Although I felt guilty about buying a new bag, I've found the style to be very easy to use. It has a central zip compartment and two open sections, both with pockets. It keeps me organized and I can easily pull out a mask, my phone or my sunglasses without having to unzip anything.View attachment 5061035

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What a marvelous color! ❤️

 

[baghabitz34]

I've shown my other multi-colored bags recently, but here are two more that are truly multi-colored.
Brighton and Coach Kaffe Fassett
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love the Kaffe

 

[Jereni]

< averting my eyes, because I do not need this... I just want this beautiful bag! >

Yes you do!

 

[afroken]

Yes you do!
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What a stunning bag! Is this a light gold or shimmery beige?

 

[Cookiefiend]

Yes you do!
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The temptation is REAL!

 

[Jereni]

What a stunning bag! Is this a light gold or shimmery beige?

It’s actually just a pebbled taupe / beige but I think the bag just photographs really well for some reason. It’s not shimmery but it does look that way in photos and sometimes when I see it from across the room.

I found this pic online somewhere and saved it because this captures the bag really well. Somehow the leather catches the light and it looks like it has a sheen, even tho it doesn’t really? Hard to explain.



I’ll stop spamming the thread with photos of it now.