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Yeah I feel like real suede makes sense vs. fake for these bags. Gorgeous color combination you have there!
One listing I found was on fashionphile and said it's microfiber and leather inside. I bought a different bag elsewhere that does have what I believe is a microsuede and I assumed it was fake, though it was authenticated as real with legitgrails (trying to get it returned since I don't trust it, I am not looking for authentication here whatsoever) -- but of course if I'm wrong and Fendi does use microfiber fabric lining sometimes, I'd love to know.
I decided to do an experiment and just bought the bag in the fashionphile listing (to return if it is microfiber inside I think), so we'll see... maybe it has been mislabeled as microsuede (or maybe I am unaware of that term applying to real suede)?
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I’m not sure about the answer to your question but fwiw I wouldn’t put too much stock in fashionphile descriptions - I’ve found it’s pretty common for them to have errors. Might still be microsuede but I wouldn’t be surprised if FP was wrong (and I’m a big fan of FP)
That's kind of good to know then! I'm hoping it is real suede. I was so bummed about my other one (from TRR, so I guess I should have known. I have gotten lucky there before, so perhaps pushed my luck).
I love the medium peekaboo in selleria too much to go without I guess! I'll report back, too, on the bag I receive.
My old men's Peekaboo in Selleria had suede-liek microfiber lining. I contacted Fendi to find out, since I was afraid of getting moisture on it (it would stain badly if it was real suede). They said it was actually microfiber.
So I think Fashionphile is correct in this case. The lining material looks the same as on the old men's Selleria Peekaboo.
That is great to know! I wish it were easier to find in-person authenticators (I'm in NYC and had trouble via a google search). Thanks for sharing that info straight from Fendi. If they did use microfiber, it at least means what I have (and have coming) aren't likely superfakes (which also begs the question... if the hardware was all perfect, why would they skimp on something as low cost as real suede).
I'll let you all know the findings of my experiment, haha. All of this is a good reminder that maybe I should just save up for a year and buy right from the source from now on, but hopefully it can help us all if buying preloved to have more info on this type of thing.
I thought it was kind of cheap of them to use microfiber considering the price of the bag, but it is a lot easier to care for than suede. A lot of conglomerate-owned brands find cost-savings like this that add up to thousands if not millions of dollars if the item is mass-produced.
Suede really isn’t that low cost though as it would mean effectively doubling the amount of leather in the bag. (Since suede is just the hide flipped facing inside out… unless you mean cheap split suede which doesn’t age well)
Oh true - I just mean if a superfake is so good that all hardware is correct and they're already using real leather for the rest of the bag, why not use a (split) suede lining rather than microfiber? But then that was me assuming that the metals and hardware are harder to reproduce and thus more expensive. I've never bought a superfake (not intentionally anyway; I've made a return or two when I was wary of a purchase), so maybe I don't understand the economics of it.
In one of my other authentic peekaboos, there is a different colored suede lining part of the bag (the other lining is python).
I wonder if there is a guide or a set of catalogues documenting peekaboo history? If not, maybe as a group we could start one. The guides out there for Coach on these forums are so informative, and there is a ton out there on other brands like hermes, but Fendi has so much going on that it seems like it'd be a neat resource.
That is a good point re: care. Also interesting to me that it was in the men's line given that, lol
Reporting back!
OK, so the Fashionphile bag came in and .... I somehow could not tell what the lining was by feel? My very untrained gut was that it is real suede unless a super high quality microsuede. It was a different color than the other bag I'd mentioned in this thread, and definitely newer. Pictures at three levels of zoom for anyone curious! (It looks like a different color zoomed in because of lighting; the soom seems to confirm suede to me).
I returned it because it didn't come with a strap and was not priced accordingly (c'mon Fashionphile) but side by side leather and hardware-wise, I feel sufficiently confident that my OG Selleria peekaboo is authentic too and just a tad older and with microsuede (and besides being authenticated it was here confirmed that Fendi has used microsuede in the past). So it does seem that they have done both, and yet that brown-peanutbutter color selleria that pops up preloved ought to have real suede when you find it, I think.
Anyway I hope my little science experiment helps someone buying preloved!
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I love Peekaboos, especially the mini and petite sizes. Here's my small but growing peekaboo family photo. Thanks for letting me share. 
