For the most part I am a careful user. There is 1 big ticket Chanel bag that I would likely not take out in the rain even though it is caviar. However, I will take any of the Louis Vuitton DE bags out in rain. I no longer have any monogram with vachetta bags! Can't wait for my Speedy with black trim to come in!!!!!
Baby Your Bags or Use 'Em Everywhere?
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I live in the U.K. It's summer here and it's currently pissing it down with rain. If I babied my bags I would never use them. Main limiting factor for me now and bag carrying is my 6 month old baby. Otherwise I would use them all anywhere...except maybe lambskin Chanel in the rain as I hate water spots but yeah it would otherwise go everywhere. So mainly everywhere opportunist but also careful user.
I am a Careful User. Having said that, I use my Birkin when I am around kids and my Chanels go with me everywhere. I try to be careful and I do store them correctly after cleaning them. If it looks like rain, I WILL bring along a plastic bag to cover any of my bags, but in the final analysis, if I only used them on special occasions or under certain circumstances, I would never use them, and they really are just bags.
This photo was from a few days ago at an amusement arcade with my son. Hermes on the floor.
This photo was from a few days ago at an amusement arcade with my son. Hermes on the floor.
I think I'm a careful user when I get a new bag and if it's designer. After a while I just try to carry it as much as I can for nearly ever occasion.
I'm not a baby-er but there are some I'm definitely more careful with, mostly because of their light colors (vintage striped coated canvas Fendi, vintage lighter Guccis, vintage Gucci flora bucket, MBMJ Preppy Hillier in White) or material (vintage lambskin Chanel Mini). The ones I baby tend to have some very special meaning for me, like the vintage Guccis being part of a collection that belonged to my grandpa's friend who then gave them all to my mom.
Most of my every day bags have been a little more, uh, lived in. Out of everything I use my MBMJ Totally Turnlock Natasha in Sea and my Mon Monogram Neverful MM the most. Natasha has some definite wear but the color is so unlike anything else I have. I got my NF's drawstring caught on a door handle last year. The little slider is hanging on by a couple threads but it really doesn't bother me. I thought I would want to get it repaired immediately but I hardly ever draw the sides in and the store recommended I wait until the other side needed repair.
I think I'm a little bit of all three! While I do baby certain bags, I recognized in my late teens that if I didn't use them at ALL I could never really truly enjoy them if I sat and just looked at them all day.
@KittyKat65, that is an EXCELLENT photo! She looks so loved. There's something special about taking a nice bag everywhere
Most of my every day bags have been a little more, uh, lived in. Out of everything I use my MBMJ Totally Turnlock Natasha in Sea and my Mon Monogram Neverful MM the most. Natasha has some definite wear but the color is so unlike anything else I have. I got my NF's drawstring caught on a door handle last year. The little slider is hanging on by a couple threads but it really doesn't bother me. I thought I would want to get it repaired immediately but I hardly ever draw the sides in and the store recommended I wait until the other side needed repair.
I think I'm a little bit of all three! While I do baby certain bags, I recognized in my late teens that if I didn't use them at ALL I could never really truly enjoy them if I sat and just looked at them all day.
@KittyKat65, that is an EXCELLENT photo! She looks so loved. There's something special about taking a nice bag everywhere