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

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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.
 
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dcooney4 said:
I can never get enough of this bag. The clean lines and the perfect shade of green is just perfection.
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Thank you :flowers:

I wasn't sure if I was silly when I bought it cos I already had the Bamboo Plume, far more expensive. I'd ordered the Quad print GP in Etoupe and so they'd reserved it, this green was a new colour to the Q-print GP. I was really torn, but it's allowed me to use the colour for everyday work and shopping all year round, and the other for occasions. I'm actually really glad.

It's also good because I don't know if the Etoupe would have been too much like my Etain/Noir Double Sens Maxi I bought later which would also be a tote I like to take shopping. Strangely, 2 bags in a seasonal colour feel less dupes than 2 bags of a similar neutral of the same generic shape and function.
 
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I agree with everyone else on the fake vs. inspired/dupes. I had a fake Speedy many moons ago & felt like such a fraud carrying it I only used it 2x. Never again.

I do feel like my AoL Lottie is inspired by the Chanel flap, but there’s enough differences it doesn’t look like a copycat bag.

I know everyone’s budgets are different, but there are plenty of beautiful, well-made options these days, I don’t see the point of fakes.

I have a friends that buy & sell fakes too. They’ve offered them to me as well. I‘m always polite but firm when I say no. Bags are one of my few indulgences, I’m willing to pay for great quality, legit items.
 
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880 said:
These are gray market goods, I think sometimes found at sample sales and outlets, but I’m not sure. i think a friend used to buy Versace sample sale goods decades ago that may have been gray market. Different labels, intended for a different market. Not sure how it all worked, but I think it happened regularly with some Ralph Lauren polo diffusion lines in Asian factories.

my mom has plenty of friends, all very wealthy, who buy inspired VCA (VCA lost the trademark battle for Alhambra in Asia, and apparen did not register the appropriate protections in the US around the time of inception (if my memory serves)

I have two Etsy pouches, inspired by BV, simply bc I wasn’t sure I could justify BV for that particular design.

I do love designer RTW, though, so I buy a mix of authentic vintage and current collection
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Thanks for this insight. I had no idea that grey market VCA items existed. I’m nosy enough to want to ask how do people know where to get these items but I’m not going to buy them and don’t want to spread the activity.
That being said, what I was referring to was people who make the items, get the same supplies (leathers, etc.) and then sell them bootleg branded as the original. Not something done as a sample sale offering. I read a number of Hermes employees were prosecuted for doing this a few years ago.
Vintage Leather said:
Early on in my bag-buying adventures, before I realized how much I hate 1) logo bags, and 2) bucket bags, I was obsessed with the LV Noe. And I was thrilled when a consignment shop got one in.

And I was devastated when I discovered it was a SuperFake. Not just a good “mostly like” - the only difference was the internal D-ring mounting.

I was repulsed by it. It took me a few years to figure out why. After all, no one would known. And I downloaded songs from Napster back in the day, so I’m not pure when it comes to IP.

Trained professionals who handle hundreds of handbags closely inspected it and gave it a pass, so why did I refuse to carry it?

It took me a lot of soul searching. Eventually I realized it was because a fake is forcing someone to live a lie. Not a human. But the bag is lying to itself and the world

Maybe I read too much Shinto philosophy as an impressionable child. Maybe it was Velveteen Rabbit. But everything that is was created, and has within it the tiniest flicker from creation. And how we use it and shape it affects it. Asking an object to try to pretend to be something it is not is asking it to live a lie.

If I expect to be able to be true to myself, how can I demand otherwise from those around me?

Inspired is perfectly fine. I only have a problem when it has that logo pretending to be something else
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What a lovely explanation and sentiment. This is exactly the type of insight and sharing I’d hoped to see and learn from. Thanks for sharing.
 
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Sparkletastic said:
grey market VCA items
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My apologies for not being more clear :smile: I didn’t mean gray market VCA but rather, in Asia, there are many jewelers producing VCA Alhambra type pieces. I believe VCA regained some intellectual property protection, after the fact. but not under US law where the lucky charm aspect was considered not original enough to warrant it. Ita my recollection that VCA settled with Heidi Klum, or another model who came out with a lucky charm line, rather than risk an unfavorable ruling. I dont really recall the details, so I would welcome correction if I have misstated some details.

Kiss clovers? How is this not copyright infringement?

I was looking up pics of vca jewelry & found a site called kiss clovers. They re-create pieces of designer jewelry (hermes, vca, bvlgaru etc) for a 'fraction of the cost'. How is this ok? Isn't it stealing the company's designs ? Copyright infringement? They seem to re-create pieces with no...
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papertiger said:
You are soooo demanding 880! :winkiss:

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
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Amazing collection OMG
 
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@Sunshine mama Your Peanuts Marc Jacobs is so cute!
@sherrylynn beautiful Gucci, Hermes, MJs! :heart: We’re twins on the Evelyne, one of my most carried bags. Also, love your Bolide, mine is in Etain.
@papertiger, I never get tired of seeing your bag and outfit pics! Your Gucci python Boules wallet and Gucci croc notebooks are gorgeous! You look sensational in the outfit pic with your Gucci python Catherine (and that bag is hot!
 
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@Sunshine mama Your Peanuts Marc Jacobs is so cute!
@sherrylynn beautiful Gucci, Hermes, MJs! :heart: We’re twins on the Evelyne, one of my most carried bags. Also, love your Bolide, mine is in Etain.
@papertiger, I never get tired of seeing your bag and outfit pics! Your Gucci python Boules wallet and Gucci croc notebooks are gorgeous! You look sensational in the outfit pic with your Gucci python Catherine (and that bag is hot!
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papertiger said:
I'd rather buy high street than fake. I don't even think about it, it's not an option :nono:
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Nothing wrong with high street or mall purchases!

Willing to bet most of us started our own actual retail purchases that way.

Some of us were lucky to have access to our relatives cast offs or charity store finds.

When & if I ever get home I’ll be hitting the local mall before hitting the big name & consignment stores & xpect to get some interesting bits and pieces there.

Also I really like gift with purchase bags. High end cosmetics companies have some great “no cost” items.
 
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Cheddar Cheese said:
Nothing wrong with high street or mall purchases!

Willing to bet most of us started our own actual retail purchases that way.

Some of us were lucky to have access to our relatives cast offs or charity store finds.

When & if I ever get home I’ll be hitting the local mall before hitting the big name & consignment stores & xpect to get some interesting bits and pieces there.

Also I really like gift with purchase bags. High end cosmetics companies have some great “no cost” items.
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Great, we're agreed then
 
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