Hi ladies... I haven't posted here much so hope i'm doing this right... I recently came into possession of a new-to-me bag & wanted to share... many thanks to the ladies on the authenticate thread for their help & patience:
Not sure if these pics are going to come out huge but I don't have the technical know-how to resize so please forgive me
Rather a LARGE dust bag... must be a...
...poorly Bays??
In the above pic she looks like she has a lovely patina but in daylight that wasn't the case. She was very dried out & tired... her piping is all gone on each corner & her lock is scratched
So after lots of reading on here & also on the Hermès leather care thread on TPF I stuffed her, wiped her, conditioned her & treated her to almost a full jar of Collonil (over about a month). Here is a pic of her all cleaned up with nothing inside - she is very slouchcy:
& here with a Samorga liner/organiser (actually an Alexa size but I find it makes my Lexie look over full) & just after being nuked with Collonil spray:
Very full (too full) of my work stuff:
She needs buffing up tomorrow so maybe i'll post a pic once the patina is really glowing. I am going to send her back to Mulberry soon for new piping & maybe a new lock (do they still engrave initials - anyone know??). Overall i'm pleased with how she turned out. IRL she has a lovely patina that the camera can't seem to capture.
Hope you like!
Not sure if these pics are going to come out huge but I don't have the technical know-how to resize so please forgive me
Rather a LARGE dust bag... must be a...
...poorly Bays??
In the above pic she looks like she has a lovely patina but in daylight that wasn't the case. She was very dried out & tired... her piping is all gone on each corner & her lock is scratched
So after lots of reading on here & also on the Hermès leather care thread on TPF I stuffed her, wiped her, conditioned her & treated her to almost a full jar of Collonil (over about a month). Here is a pic of her all cleaned up with nothing inside - she is very slouchcy:
& here with a Samorga liner/organiser (actually an Alexa size but I find it makes my Lexie look over full) & just after being nuked with Collonil spray:
Very full (too full) of my work stuff:
She needs buffing up tomorrow so maybe i'll post a pic once the patina is really glowing. I am going to send her back to Mulberry soon for new piping & maybe a new lock (do they still engrave initials - anyone know??). Overall i'm pleased with how she turned out. IRL she has a lovely patina that the camera can't seem to capture.
Hope you like!
if you can pick up a bargain I find Mulberriy repairs quite reasonable. £100 for piping transforms a bag and not much extra for the lock. None of my bags have heavily scratched lock plates, I don't now what people do to get them in that state. Totally abused but can't think why anyone would treat an expensive bag that way, must just have too much money I guess
