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.

 

[JenJBS]

My Marc Jacobs bag. Decided to use it today.View attachment 5275006View attachment 5275007

So cute!

 

[Sunshine mama]

So cute!

Thank you JenJBS!

 

[whateve]

You are soooo demanding 880!

I gave my smaller Jackie to my niece but here is my '00s Bouvier

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Some exotics for you (you've had the purple lizard Hysteria already)

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Gucci roc and pony Secret (wearing my dad's Gucci belt and an H cap)


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Malachite Python 1973 with G detail (right). Left is a satin crystal Small 1973

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Gucci python Boules wallet

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Gucci croc notebooks

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Crocodile Aviatrix

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Gucci python Catherine

Missing pics (because tPF ate the pics)
Gucci Green croc vintage chain bag
Gucci brown croc vintage top-handle
Gucci black lizard vintage Padlock
Gucci pale pink lizard vintage purse
Hermes black croc vintage Pullman

Card holders and more vintage tomorrow

Wow! I love that malachite python!

 

[whateve]

You are probably right but Mexican isn't so popular here. I have been to the States a few times, sometimes for months and near the border, but sadly no one to guide me eating authentic Mexican from people who knew how to cook and I was warned no to go to US Tex-Mex chains. We have quite a few Poles here (UK) but I don't think they have that much faith in their own cooking style which is a shame. It can be really good.

Tex Mex is good but not authentic Mexican.

 

[Cookiefiend]

So you guys want me to post my 40+ Guccis and 15 x H (& 1.5 MJ) bags in one post?

I don't want to break tPF so if you can remember them/any I'll take requests

PT

Yes!!!

 

[Cookiefiend]

My bags for this week:

One lonely Gucci. Ugh. Need to sell this one.

My Hermes!! The Evelyn and Lindy are my most carried bags. True work horses. I have yet to carry the Bolide, and I've had her for months!

I dug deep in my closet to find my Marc Jacobs Stam and this hobo. Now, I don't want to put the Stam back. Love this bag. I don't care that she weighs a ton and is so 2000.View attachment 5275065View attachment 5275067View attachment 5275068

oh a gold a Lindy! I’ve been tempted buy them, I’m glad it’s a favorite of yours!

Right you are!

I have 2 silver Gucci clutches but I think you might mean the one made from actual silver.

Very interestingly you've chosen one left to me by my mother bought in Italy, and one from her mother (my grandmother) bought in France

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Gucci Silver, gold and tigers-eye minaudière 1987

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1950s SM with '69/70' gavroche and 1971 Gucci horse-bit loafers that were also my grans and completely unworn. Norwegian hand-knitted wooden stockings

and just in case you mean this one - Silver metallic leather Romy clutch - very useful little darling
(plus purple lizard Hysteria, blk patent Mirage and 1976 Navy calf with enamel hw).

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Love ❤️ the SM - and from the 50’s! Wow! Please tell me the loafers fit you - such beautiful shoes should be worn!

Love to - as you know one of my most used bags in my collection



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extraordinary color, and fantastic Quadrige print inside!

You are soooo demanding 880!

I gave my smaller Jackie to my niece but here is my '00s Bouvier

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Some exotics for you (you've had the purple lizard Hysteria already)

View attachment 5275157

Gucci roc and pony Secret (wearing my dad's Gucci belt and an H cap)


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Malachite Python 1973 with G detail (right). Left is a satin crystal Small 1973

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Gucci python Boules wallet

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Gucci croc notebooks

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Crocodile Aviatrix

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Gucci python Catherine

Missing pics (because tPF ate the pics)
Gucci Green croc vintage chain bag
Gucci brown croc vintage top-handle
Gucci black lizard vintage Padlock
Gucci pale pink lizard vintage purse
Hermes black croc vintage Pullman

Card holders and more vintage tomorrow

Be still my heart. Your Malachite Python is so beautiful! Thank you for sharing them with us! ❤️

 

[Vintage Leather]

And for our last, glorious, glamorous purchase of the year - a new HVAC system!

 

[papertiger]

These are so amazing! Gorgeous pics! wow! Thank you! I love LOVE the coat! And the cap ! And your hair! Your hair is Fabulous! I love the high contrast scarves too!

if we are not limited to bag pics, I would also love to see more action pics; the boots you referenced; how you wear your Evelyn; and, your jewelry. . . . Just sayin’ Plus, I’m exceedingly nosy and love seeing other peoples closets, bag arrangements, and whatever else you’d like to share

Mexican food is quite mediocre in nyc. I’m envious of the Mexican food in LA

Thank you for all the compliments

These are all quite old pics because I just use them as ref.

That coat is one of my all time faves, an Alexander Mcqueen from AW2003. It zips from a long coat with mink-paw bottom, to a short wool/coat and then into a jacket. My mother bought me the coat, but I bought 3 skirts and trousers that were part of that multi-zip 'story'. I would have bought the entire AW2003 collection, and SS04 too, had I not been a student. After his death and the exhibitions the prices are higher than when they were new

I live in the UK, we don't have usually have walk-ins. My main house is Edwardian with high ceilings. I keep most of my H bags on top of my piano in the office, my Gucci's under our massive bed. They're in dust bags and upright unless hobos like the Bouvier. I don't need to see them to know which bags they are are, I can tell from the shape.

Here's my Evie from Weds.

I wear it X-body over long, slim coats like my Etro camel hair I was wearing yesterday, but under double-breasted coats like my Burberry donkey jacket. If the jacket is delicate like my lamb Gucci biker I will wear in under, but a Moto jacket like my All Saints that survive a nuclear blast, I'll wear it over. Fur goes on top of course (never wear cross-bodies over fur). I always wear the 'H' towards my body when carrying, I don't know haw anyone carries it the other way because opening the popper to the outside pocket would be counterintuitive.

 

[880]

Thank you for all the compliments

These are all quite old pics because I just use them as ref.

That coat is one of my all time faves, an Alexander Mcqueen from AW2003. It zips from a long coat with mink-paw bottom, to a short wool/coat and then into a jacket. My mother bought me the coat, but I bought 3 skirts and trousers that were part of that multi-zip 'story'. I would have bought the entire AW2003 collection, and SS04 too, had I not been a student. After his death and the exhibitions the prices are higher than when they were new

I live in the UK, we don't have usually have walk-ins. My main house is Edwardian with high ceilings. I keep most of my H bags on top of my piano in the office, my Gucci's under our massive bed. They're in dust bags and upright unless hobos like the Bouvier. I don't need to see them to know which bags they are are, I can tell from the shape.

Here's my Evie from Weds.

I wear it X-body over long, slim coats like my Etro camel hair I was wearing yesterday, but under double-breasted coats like my Burberry donkey jacket. If the jacket is delicate like my lamb Gucci biker I will wear in under, but a Moto jacket like my All Saints that survive a nuclear blast, I'll wear it over. Fur goes on top of course (never wear cross-bodies over fur). I always wear the 'H' towards my body when carrying, I don't know haw anyone carries it the other way because opening the popper to the outside pocket would be counterintuitive.



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Thank you! It makes me smile to think of H lounging together on the piano

am off to google Mcqueen 2003 collection! Hugs

 

[papertiger]

Thank you! It makes me smile to think of H lounging together on the piano

am off to google Mcqueen 2003 collection! Hugs

LOL. They lounge I try very hard to actually play .

It was called Scanners

 

[dcooney4]

You are soooo demanding 880!

I gave my smaller Jackie to my niece but here is my '00s Bouvier

View attachment 5275155

Some exotics for you (you've had the purple lizard Hysteria already)

View attachment 5275157

Gucci roc and pony Secret (wearing my dad's Gucci belt and an H cap)


View attachment 5275159


Malachite Python 1973 with G detail (right). Left is a satin crystal Small 1973

View attachment 5275164

Gucci python Boules wallet

View attachment 5275165


Gucci croc notebooks

View attachment 5275174

Crocodile Aviatrix

View attachment 5275177


Gucci python Catherine

Missing pics (because tPF ate the pics)
Gucci Green croc vintage chain bag
Gucci brown croc vintage top-handle
Gucci black lizard vintage Padlock
Gucci pale pink lizard vintage purse
Hermes black croc vintage Pullman

Card holders and more vintage tomorrow

You and the bags look amazing!

 

[BowieFan1971]

Thank you for all the compliments

These are all quite old pics because I just use them as ref.

That coat is one of my all time faves, an Alexander Mcqueen from AW2003. It zips from a long coat with mink-paw bottom, to a short wool/coat and then into a jacket. My mother bought me the coat, but I bought 3 skirts and trousers that were part of that multi-zip 'story'. I would have bought the entire AW2003 collection, and SS04 too, had I not been a student. After his death and the exhibitions the prices are higher than when they were new

I live in the UK, we don't have usually have walk-ins. My main house is Edwardian with high ceilings. I keep most of my H bags on top of my piano in the office, my Gucci's under our massive bed. They're in dust bags and upright unless hobos like the Bouvier. I don't need to see them to know which bags they are are, I can tell from the shape.

Here's my Evie from Weds.

I wear it X-body over long, slim coats like my Etro camel hair I was wearing yesterday, but under double-breasted coats like my Burberry donkey jacket. If the jacket is delicate like my lamb Gucci biker I will wear in under, but a Moto jacket like my All Saints that survive a nuclear blast, I'll wear it over. Fur goes on top of course (never wear cross-bodies over fur). I always wear the 'H' towards my body when carrying, I don't know haw anyone carries it the other way because opening the popper to the outside pocket would be counterintuitive.



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Love the hat! Wish it got cold enough here to really do winter fashion.

 

[papertiger]

Love the hat! Wish it got cold enough here to really do winter fashion.

The only really good thing about Winter are the fashion ops

 

[Sparkletastic]

First, let me preface this by saying: I have too many bags. I have classic taste with an element of whimsy, and I like excellent quality. I’ve had the same taste for the last three decades. So I don’t have any holes in my collection, and there is nothing I need.

So the perfect bag for me is … to eliminate another 30 bags from my collection.

OR

An insanely whimsical clutch. I’m partial to an Hermes Sac a Malice,Judith Leiber Cinderella bag, or an Olympia Le Tan P&P. A bag that is the marriage of art and function , and leans a little more toward art

The Cinderella bag is absolutely amazing.

Welcome back! Glad you had fun in Hawaii. What a fabulous gift from Mr. Sparkletastic!

The bag I have my eye on for spring is this gorgeous Studio bag.
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I think it will go beautifully with late spring/summer outfits.

Oooh! That screams spring!

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So, I did something I never do. I just bought a damaged (stained) bag in a model I’ve seen online and love. My thought is I can have it cleaned or dyed. I’m a little nervous about what will happen. But at 10% of retail, I figure it’s worth the risk. Eek! I’ll share the journey from arrival to resolution. Say a prayer to the purse gods.

And, my C Jumbo will be here tomorrow. I’m super excited! Wheee!

 

[Sparkletastic]

I’m feeling a blend of dumb /naive.

A friend who knows my passion for bags sent me links to fake bag sites. My dumb bunny self never realized there is a HUGE community / support system for fake bags in which people buy, sell and share detailed info.

After looking at this, I asked myself why I’m so very against fakes. I looooove to save money so this would seem to be a viable option. And, why not have pretty things for a fraction of the retail cost? Especially since some are surreptitiously made by the same artisans in the same factories with the same materials after hours. (How is this possible? No security???)

The conscious rationale for my NOPE! is it’s theft of intellectual property and proceeds contribute to criminal organizations. And, I never buy a bag to impress anyone. I couldn’t give a rat’s patoot about the Jones-es or the peanut gallery so no pressure to own anything I don’t want to spend money on.

But, I kept digging. Why not buy every beautiful bag I want if the construction and leathers may even be equivalent to original?

I realized ultimately that I wouldn’t buy a fake bc my self expressions of success are about my pride that I stand on the shoulders of my parents, grandparents (and beyond) who worked hard and sacrificed - with integrity - to get me to this place in life where I can achieve, do and have. A fake would feel like me spitting on that legacy.

BUT! We’re all different and diversity of opinion is valuable. So, I’m curious. Is your view on fakes a simple “Love them!” or “Heck No!” Or is there a deeper factor involved in your decision making?

I always enjoy hearing how much of our buying approach means more than just acquisition of a pretty thing.