Many years ago, not long after purchasing the LV limited roses pochette (I also bought a long vachetta strap with it), I was wearing it while picking up my kid at school. A woman (who I didn’t know) asked if I had let my 5 year old daughter paint on my lv bag (I do not have a daughter and this was a middle school). “No….it’s a limited edition Louis Vuitton…don’t you just love it!” Was my response. I still have this bag today and this incident always stayed with me. Wacky rude people.
Bag Insults - Ever Had One?
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My experience is a little different from what I've read on here so far. I've never received an actual insult about any of my bags. In fact, generally, if anyone says anything about my bags it's complimentary, but there was one bag that got strange, disapproving looks when I first got it.
About 20 years ago I got a roundish bag in a soft gold that I thought looked a little odd but also very gorgeous. The material and the shape were both a little unusual for the time. For the first two or so years that I carried that bag, I saw lots of people looking at it with frowns of confusion on their faces. No one ever said anything and I don't think most people realized I could see their expressions of disapproval, but I could tell that for the most part my poor bag was loved only by me. After a couple of years though, all of a sudden I started to get compliments on it. Like a lot of compliments. I think it was just ahead of its time and it took a few years for the average person with average taste to catch up to it. It is rather ordinary today I think.
Unfortunately, it was not real leather and just recently it got damaged beyond repair but I used it often until then. Continued to get occasional compliments right up until the end. I feel like it was the ugly duckling that grew into a swan.
About 20 years ago I got a roundish bag in a soft gold that I thought looked a little odd but also very gorgeous. The material and the shape were both a little unusual for the time. For the first two or so years that I carried that bag, I saw lots of people looking at it with frowns of confusion on their faces. No one ever said anything and I don't think most people realized I could see their expressions of disapproval, but I could tell that for the most part my poor bag was loved only by me. After a couple of years though, all of a sudden I started to get compliments on it. Like a lot of compliments. I think it was just ahead of its time and it took a few years for the average person with average taste to catch up to it. It is rather ordinary today I think.
Unfortunately, it was not real leather and just recently it got damaged beyond repair but I used it often until then. Continued to get occasional compliments right up until the end. I feel like it was the ugly duckling that grew into a swan.
I hope this has since become an ex partner. Your friend deserves better than someone who’s so flippant about infertility.
I feel embarrassed to even write mine-I think I’m blushing as I type…I carry-my most carried bag atm -an Hermes 2011 navy box Tsako, which I bought preloved..
I have a friend(a lot younger than me, she’s 23),but we go out a lot together shopping and socialising.
She’s quite well off, has an identical twin who spends on high end designer, but the most expensive bag she’s ever had is a Michael Kors which she trashed and replaced with a high street bag.
She cannot understand why my bag isn’t covered with logos (I’d want it covered with H’s for that price!) and calls it my “Granny bag”!
She honestly doesn’t mean to insult me, but I’m planning an exotic H in the future, my eventual dream is a bespoke Horizons bag-although I wouldn’t carry that to go shopping with her.., but even when I mentioned the price of a Kelly or Birkin she thought it was ridiculous.
Last week she commented that one if my cats had scratched my Tsako and suggested I gave it to a charity shop!To be honest, I don’t baby it, it won’t last forever, but it’s very strong box calf, and definitely has more mileage in it!
I held back from offering to put her bag in a charity shop!
At her age I was carrying a new Chanel bag which I’d bought myself-she’s a lively lovely girl-I value her friendship..but my Tsako is NOT going to a charity shop!
I have a friend(a lot younger than me, she’s 23),but we go out a lot together shopping and socialising.
She’s quite well off, has an identical twin who spends on high end designer, but the most expensive bag she’s ever had is a Michael Kors which she trashed and replaced with a high street bag.
She cannot understand why my bag isn’t covered with logos (I’d want it covered with H’s for that price!) and calls it my “Granny bag”!
She honestly doesn’t mean to insult me, but I’m planning an exotic H in the future, my eventual dream is a bespoke Horizons bag-although I wouldn’t carry that to go shopping with her.., but even when I mentioned the price of a Kelly or Birkin she thought it was ridiculous.
Last week she commented that one if my cats had scratched my Tsako and suggested I gave it to a charity shop!To be honest, I don’t baby it, it won’t last forever, but it’s very strong box calf, and definitely has more mileage in it!
I held back from offering to put her bag in a charity shop!
At her age I was carrying a new Chanel bag which I’d bought myself-she’s a lively lovely girl-I value her friendship..but my Tsako is NOT going to a charity shop!
My mom called my BKs old lady bags until I gave her a first, then a second one. (The second was for a 75th bday and is likely the last one lol)
My MIL and aunts were mildly disapproving of my spending money on Evelynes and CSGMs, rinse and repeat.
Haven’t heard a negative peep since.
My MIL and aunts were mildly disapproving of my spending money on Evelynes and CSGMs, rinse and repeat.
Haven’t heard a negative peep since.
I don’t have a MIL, my late Aunt would have loved them lol, my sister complains about my bag spending…my Mum has dementia but Loves bags still-I gift her bags(but not BK!)- she is always happy to receive bags, which in turn makes my Dad happy so all good there..he can’t tell my H from a high street bag-tbh I don’t think my sister can either..in fact my shabby H is a better bag to carry to go around there than a brand new lower end designer bag for some reason..so atm it suits me very well..but I will take the insults when I carry a better bag as well!My mom called my BKs old lady bags until I gave her a first, then a second one. (The second was for a 75th bday and is likely the last one lol)
My MIL and aunts were mildly disapproving of my spending money on Evelynes and CSGMs, rinse and repeat.
Haven’t heard a negative peep since.
I have a preloved vintage Chanel flap and was recently asked by a friend (although not a very close one) why I don’t just replace it with a new one, could I not afford Chanel’s new prices?
On one hand, I took this as a sign that it might be time to book a bag spa for my bag - I have been dithering on this cause I don’t want that vintage look to disappear.
I just responded with “I like it as it is” and did not bother explaining vintage because I know that this friend has a mindset about preloved (can’t afford brand new, trying to social climb with preloved, etc).
On one hand, I took this as a sign that it might be time to book a bag spa for my bag - I have been dithering on this cause I don’t want that vintage look to disappear.
I just responded with “I like it as it is” and did not bother explaining vintage because I know that this friend has a mindset about preloved (can’t afford brand new, trying to social climb with preloved, etc).
I DO sympathise-although my younger friend just doesn’t understand vintage at all either, -I can use my 2011 H Tsako knowing that it didn’t cost me a fortune (I’ve just been to Waitrose and came back with a lentil cottage pie in it, something I wouldn’t do with my other bags)- and just thinks I should thrift it and donate it to charity or even literally throw it away!
I don’t think she thinks I’m trying to social climb as I’m not even sure that she knows what that is lol!
And if I Did buy a new H she would think I was mad-although if I bought a new Chanel probably not, we’re going bag shopping on the 1st June for a day out and I think I’ll stun her with the amount I intend to spend-last year we went out and she came back with a DKNY bag..I nearly bought a BV that day, but was overtired, this year I’ll be better prepared..
Honestly, there are some points about him, where I think she should exactly do that... She definitely deserves someone who likes her as she is.
All my life my mom, the fashionista, always referred to whatever bag I carried as "that sack you carry." No matter the bag, it was that sack. For years I listened to disparagements of my "sack." Now that she's in a care facility she has developed a new appreciation of my purses. It's very odd. She oo's and ahh's over them all. Even when I carry in something that is truly sack-like because there are always so many care items I must tote around for her--like this $20 gem from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y62S55Z?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details--she clucks appreciatively about the beautiful bag and further says that if she saw that in a store she would buy that too.
maybe she's ingratiaging herself to you since she depends on you now?
can one be demented and still be crafty?
Oh, yes! One can still be demented and crafty! My mom certainly can. The stories I could tell you from her aids!
However she seems to have acquired a late-life appreciation for vintage Coach so it's not all craftiness and insanity. manipulative people can still be manipulative even with part of their brain I guessOh, yes! One can still be demented and crafty! My mom certainly can. The stories I could tell you from her aids!
My dad always says my Birkin 35 is an ugly huge bag. And then we have a little conversation about him not understanding fashion and me not understanding beauty and etc lol. But he’s the only person who can and may give me any critique.
I’m not sure if anyone else ever commented negatively on my bag, or looks or anything, I rarely pay attention to anything negative.
I’m not sure if anyone else ever commented negatively on my bag, or looks or anything, I rarely pay attention to anything negative.