2022 Resolution: Shopping my own bag and SLG collection. Anyone else?

[Katinahat]

2 Aug - brand showcase: A-F
4 Sept - brand showcase: G-L
11 Sept - brand showcase: M-R
18 Sept - brand showcase: S-Z
25 Sept - totes
2 Oct - satchels
9 Oct - crossbodies inc WOCS
16 Oct - shoulder bags
23 Oct - bucket bags
30 Oct - clutches
6 Nov - backpacks
13 Nov - bags that don’t count
20 Nov - pairing bags with shoes
27 Nov - pairing bags with other accessories
4 Dec - bag storage
11 Dec - SLGs
18 Dec - charms

Challenges:
Sept - bags in different locations
Oct - Halloween: wear orange or black bags
Nov - International Merlot Day: wear wine coloured bags or pair bags with wine.
Dec - use the bag.

 

[papertiger]

Gorgeous color! Congratulations on your new beauty!

I thought of you when I saw it

 

[papertiger]

Gorgeous!!!! What a great shot, and the coat looks perfect on you!!!

@Katinahat congrats on the Alexa! That color just pops!

Re: teeny tiny bags, I have tried out the micro bag trend but I only really like it when (a) it’s like another accessory in addition to a larger hand carry bag, or (b) when I’m wearing a blazer or jacket and can put my phone in my pocket.

I’ve never carried much - flat card case, keys, phone, and now of course mask. So a big bag isn’t required, though generally I tend to like the scale of medium bags on me the best.

I suspect different folks think of small / medium differently too… For me, I consider my Valextra to be a medium bag but it’s classed as ‘mini’ by them.
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Something like a Coach Willis 18 would be ‘small’
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The Coach Swinger or a Chanel WOC would be ‘mini’
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And then - micro would be anything that doesn’t hold a phone.

These are all such gorgeous bags. I don't have a single Valextra but I consider myself a fan nonetheless.

It's funny what some brands consider a 'mini' or a 'micro'. For me I would at least expect a mini-bag to function on a date-night but a micro is an 'extra' bag.

Gucci have produced BTHs in Med, Small and Mini. I tried the mini and I looked ridiculous. I'd like the Small so I have a different size but I'm saving for the Med (if they have any left) because at the end of the day I'm refusing to stick my phone or keys in my pocket when I'm actually carrying a bag.

 

[JenJBS]

I thought of you when I saw it

 

[Jereni]

The other 'genre' that all brands are doing is the small underarm 'ops bag (a la Baguette).

Yes omg I feel like these bags are everywhere right now. And this variation too, which I think of as the ‘slightly hobo’.

These are all such gorgeous bags. I didn't have a single Valextra but I consider myself a fan nonetheless.

It's funny what some brands consider a 'mini' or a 'micro'. For me I would at least expect a mini-bag to function on a date-night but I a micro is an 'extra' bag.

Gucci have produced BTHs in Med, Small and Mini. I tried the mini and I looked ridiculous. I'd like the Small so I have a different size but I'm saving for the Med (if they have any left) because at the end of the day I'm refusing to stick my phone or keys in my pocket when I'm actually carrying a bag.

Thanks! Yeah same, while I sometimes love a mini or micro bag, usually they look a little too small on my frame.

 

[papertiger]

How long before your birthday can you buy something, and still call it an early birthday present for yourself?
Asking for a friend.

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Please tell your 'friend' she can buy whenever BUT only once in the year

 

[papertiger]

Yes omg I feel like these bags are everywhere right now. And this variation too, which I think of as the ‘slightly hobo’.
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Thanks! Yeah same, while I sometimes love a mini or micro bag, usually they look a little too small on my frame.

Exactly. That's a dead ringer for my Gucci Bamboo-ring Half-moon hobo 2005(?) I think @880 has a similar one too(?) I thought I was the bees knees prancing around with it at vintage fairs and 'hanging out' I still have the bag but I'm not sure I can successfully do the attitude without irony.

 

[papertiger]

Use the bag challenge:

Bayswater Tote in Sea Blue. I got her from DH for valentines in 2020 just before Covid hit. Used a lot before lockdown and then very little in 2021. First carry of 2022. Brilliant big work and shopping bag similar to a Neverfull. Quite light for leather, and carries over one shoulder very comfortably.

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Again I need to review after my walking commute home later. I’m not sure about shoulder carrying for an hour’s walk.

Now at 10 bags carried this month.

Bravo Let's hear it for this Sea Blue bag's first voyage of '22

 

[ElainePG]

I was looking over last years stats to see which bags I wore. A couple I had forced myself to wear to wear. I spent yesterday reorganizing them. One area felt so crowed and yet other areas were very open. I realized what made it so crowded were two travel bags that really shouldn't be stored with the handbags. One is the huge new art bag/travel bag. I cleaned out room in my art cabinet and put it in there for a grab and go option. The other was a big travel backpack with a travel sleeve. I was going to list it but my friend talked me out of it. She said it is the perfect travel backpack, find more space and keep it. I took it out of its original plastic bag and put it in its nice dust bag I could store it further back in a closet with my nicest bags yet not have to see it every day. This way I am not adding space but using the allotted space differently. Do you ever have issues with storage? I like my bags to be easily grabble and not squashed together and no bag in a bag , with the exception of suitcases.

I used to have issues with storage in my closet, my bureau, and my bag shelves… but then I figured out that there was a reason for this. I had too much stuff. (Duh.)

I've been using some of my pandemic downtime to clear space in all three storage spaces, and I'm much happier. Like you, I prefer to be able to just grab a bag, fill it with whatever needs to come with me (very little, these days!) and go. As for my closet and bureau, it's a lot easier to put together outfits now that I can actually see my clothes!

 

[Jereni]

I don't switch SLGs regularly. It is so much easier to move all the SLGs en masse when I change bags. When I first started my collection, I tried to get wallets that matched or coordinated with my bags and I would switch when I switched bags. I had fewer bags back then. Over the years, I've downsized the size of wallet I use and changed up my SLG system until I have something that works for me in both big and small bags. Basically it is a set of smaller SLGs that carry my most important and least important items in separate SLGS, so for smaller bags, I can leave out the least important SLGs and still have everything I'm probably going to need for most purposes. I got rid of the matching wallets, which were large full size wallets. I have more SLGs than I need. Every 6 months or so, I switch them out. I do have a few I never use but I can't get rid of them because they are beautiful. These are mostly larger wallets. Some day I might use them.

My SLGs are a variety of different brands. My coin purse is Chanel, which satisfied my itch to own Chanel. I have a card case from Tiffany because I wanted something in Tiffany blue.

+1… while I enjoy rotating my handbag every day, I found I couldn’t do anything near the same with SLGs. So I tend to live in one for awhile and then switch, at least in terms of my card cases.

I have 5 or 6 card holders I rotate between, and then two o-cases of different sizes which hold different things and are brought along as needed. At this point I am trying to keep myself from really adding too many more SLGs.

 

[JenJBS]

Please tell your 'friend' she can buy whenever BUT only once in the year

Great answer!

 

[ElainePG]

My mother wasn't text-book perfect either, far from it, she was very clever but kinda 'bohemian' but I wouldn't have swapped her for any other. You can only do what you can, you're the mother not the teacher or the school system (my brother went partly through the Soviet system). It is designed so that all children will flourish - whether they like to or not, and of course it's the parents' fault if they don't. I had to study Russian pedagogy for my teacher's training and most seems created to please figures at the top not the children (like university teaching today ). DH grew up West Germany, he had a lot of pressure to excel in academia otherwise goodness forbid he'd end-up at a vocational school like his brother. Interestingly his brother went into the army and became a mechanic, then retrained and became a nurse, then a successful homeopathic doctor and now is Mr. Big Fish in his home town.

You may find that you have the kind of child that comes into their own when they're at uni or later in life in general. Just having high marks at school means very little in the long run except on this one-track mentality that everyone's in the same race, that only certain universities or careers are worth going to/having etc. School should be part of life, kids should look forward to going and learning new things, not having to be the best in class. IMO, the important thing is he doesn't lose faith in himself or thinks that everyone else in class finds it easy.

 

[ElainePG]

I can't believe I didn't show you all before

It's a black Gucci Moto jacket with silk-scarf lining

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OMG… that lining!!!

 

[BowieFan1971]

I don't switch SLGs regularly. It is so much easier to move all the SLGs en masse when I change bags. When I first started my collection, I tried to get wallets that matched or coordinated with my bags and I would switch when I switched bags. I had fewer bags back then. Over the years, I've downsized the size of wallet I use and changed up my SLG system until I have something that works for me in both big and small bags. Basically it is a set of smaller SLGs that carry my most important and least important items in separate SLGS, so for smaller bags, I can leave out the least important SLGs and still have everything I'm probably going to need for most purposes. I got rid of the matching wallets, which were large full size wallets. I have more SLGs than I need. Every 6 months or so, I switch them out. I do have a few I never use but I can't get rid of them because they are beautiful. These are mostly larger wallets. Some day I might use them.

My SLGs are a variety of different brands. My coin purse is Chanel, which satisfied my itch to own Chanel. I have a card case from Tiffany because I wanted something in Tiffany blue.

This is me too!

 

[papertiger]

Use the bag: Gucci Ophidia tote
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Classic!!!

 

[papertiger]

Received my Go Forth Goods bag that I ordered and counted in December. I adore the color I chose. I love the quality of these bags. I had gotten rid of a deep water PLG to make room for this one as the color will work better for me.View attachment 5303365

That leather looks amazing.

Love these 'cloudy' blue-grey bags. I have a Gucci in Aviazione blue and it makes me so happy - even if it is a cloudy day by the sea