Hey all,
I thought I'd share my recent discovery regarding SLP hardware. I bought a betty bag a while ago and had to return it because the chain was BLACK in spots with tarnishing. Like the gold was gone and it was purely black in random spots. After that I returned another SLP bag I had bought with a similar chain (the flat gold chain) for fear of the same happening.
And then...I bought a sac du jour. I got my sac at an amazing price, $1550, preloved. The bag came in impeccable condition, only one minor scratch and some rubbing (pretty par for the course with the smooth leather, most of my new bags came like this) and a bit of the scent from the new owner, which came right out with a wipe down with Apple's suede cleaner and some LMB bag candies. But I noticed something strange, the hardware on the inside of the bag was....tarnished! Little spots all over and even some green grossness! The clips for the shoulder strap were tough to open from the green stuff. It was enough to make me want to sell it to fashionphile or BBOS for a fraction of what I paid, even though I still loved sac du jour and knew the price increases were going to make it just that more hard to get.
So I randomly did a google search for treating tarnished brass and found lemon as a good treatment. I didn't have a lemon in the house but I do have LMB Bye Bye Dye (which I must say, if you like owning both bags and blue jeans you MUST have this product, it has saved my suntan Chloe Marcie more times than I can count) which smells very lemony. So I gave it a whirl, first just using a qtip for precision application of the cleaner, then rubbing and wiping it away with a microfiber cloth. For the clips I put some of the cleaner in and ran them back and forth until they ran smooth. And guess what? IT WORKED. I'm so glad to have a dual use for LMB Bye Bye Dye and glad to have my sac back in sparkling condition!
The bag came from a humid environment, I live in a desert, but I suspect any ladies living where it is more humid might have this issue. So this product (or I assume, just some lemon juice) is a great way to help out that SLP hardware. And of course, here are the pictures! The ones on this page are the befores....
(mods you can move this thread if you need to, I wasn't sure if it belonged in the caring/keeping thread or the sac du jour thread, so I made a new one)
I thought I'd share my recent discovery regarding SLP hardware. I bought a betty bag a while ago and had to return it because the chain was BLACK in spots with tarnishing. Like the gold was gone and it was purely black in random spots. After that I returned another SLP bag I had bought with a similar chain (the flat gold chain) for fear of the same happening.
And then...I bought a sac du jour. I got my sac at an amazing price, $1550, preloved. The bag came in impeccable condition, only one minor scratch and some rubbing (pretty par for the course with the smooth leather, most of my new bags came like this) and a bit of the scent from the new owner, which came right out with a wipe down with Apple's suede cleaner and some LMB bag candies. But I noticed something strange, the hardware on the inside of the bag was....tarnished! Little spots all over and even some green grossness! The clips for the shoulder strap were tough to open from the green stuff. It was enough to make me want to sell it to fashionphile or BBOS for a fraction of what I paid, even though I still loved sac du jour and knew the price increases were going to make it just that more hard to get.
So I randomly did a google search for treating tarnished brass and found lemon as a good treatment. I didn't have a lemon in the house but I do have LMB Bye Bye Dye (which I must say, if you like owning both bags and blue jeans you MUST have this product, it has saved my suntan Chloe Marcie more times than I can count) which smells very lemony. So I gave it a whirl, first just using a qtip for precision application of the cleaner, then rubbing and wiping it away with a microfiber cloth. For the clips I put some of the cleaner in and ran them back and forth until they ran smooth. And guess what? IT WORKED. I'm so glad to have a dual use for LMB Bye Bye Dye and glad to have my sac back in sparkling condition!
The bag came from a humid environment, I live in a desert, but I suspect any ladies living where it is more humid might have this issue. So this product (or I assume, just some lemon juice) is a great way to help out that SLP hardware. And of course, here are the pictures! The ones on this page are the befores....
(mods you can move this thread if you need to, I wasn't sure if it belonged in the caring/keeping thread or the sac du jour thread, so I made a new one)
Now to get her a pretty silk scarf to wear on her handles!
