Brands you don't like/don't buy from/find personally to be overrated?

[Gabs007]

Hermes is in its own league for disdain. The pretense and games you have to play to get a birkin or kelly bag, and the fact that employees are trained to lie about product availability (this can be confirmed by reading employee reviews online) makes them worthy of some contempt. For those who simply don't like the designs (i.e. too plain) I don't think there's disdain. For who those who do really hate it, I think it's due to company practices.

You will be pleased to know that my dog ate my Birkin bag, and yes I did cry, a lot, not because I liked it, it was a present, never liked the shade of purple (looked like drinking too much red wine and then getting rid of it) and ostrich leather to me always looks like a plucked bird with goose bumps, but since I had it for 15 years and never wore it, thought I could sell it, while I put it on a white background, the phone rang and I left the room and Harvey pounced, to add insult to injury, he swallowed the key, so trip to the vet, x-rays, and checking his errr offerings for several days until the key reappeared and a surgery was avoided...

Personally I do like Hermes, the quality is fantastic, I do like the classic design and I never had a problem with product availability.

 

[Gabs007]

Oh I see. For the record though, I never had to pretend anything or play any games to get my Kelly. I think there is a genuine case of far too many people after too few bags. These are handmade and obviously H doesn't want to increase production to the point of market saturation.

It would make good business sense if I had a desirable product in limited quantities, I'd save it for my best clients. No?

Yes, it is also good marketing to turn away people you might not want to wear your brand by saying it is not available, a gentle let down rather than "We really don't our brand tarnished with you wearing it"

 

[MyAwesomeFinds]

You will be pleased to know that my dog ate my Birkin bag, and yes I did cry, a lot, not because I liked it, it was a present, never liked the shade of purple (looked like drinking too much red wine and then getting rid of it) and ostrich leather to me always looks like a plucked bird with goose bumps, but since I had it for 15 years and never wore it, thought I could sell it, while I put it on a white background, the phone rang and I left the room and Harvey pounced, to add insult to injury, he swallowed the key, so trip to the vet, x-rays, and checking his errr offerings for several days until the key reappeared and a surgery was avoided...

Personally I do like Hermes, the quality is fantastic, I do like the classic design and I never had a problem with product availability.

Hermes karma.

Glad your dog is ok, btw.

 

[ladysarah]

i also tried to avoid brands using real fur on their clothes. Quite difficult because with the exception of Stella, most designers I love still use fur! some brands I still buy , but just not the pieces with actual fur obviously...

 

[SomethingGoodCanWork]

Wise words!

I caught myself liking a dress in Tory Burch's window the other day. I was shocked because I normally wince.

I can also usually see the merit in most clothing ranges even if I wouldn't wear it myself.

but

I don't see the appeal of Zadig & Voltaire, it's like Zara Basics at 20 x the price.
Come to think f it, Zara for their dubious politics and policies.
Abacrombie Fitch. Guys, you have been duped. And give back Savile Row (London) to the makers of real men's clothes.
Victoria Secret. Hideous and hideous quality underwear. There is so much better out there. VS is Disney for adults.
Isabel Marant. How long can she raid her youth for ideas? And stop naming everything.
Vetements. How long can Demna Gvasalia raid his mother's wardrobe? Not a new or idea in sight. The joke is def on us.
Victoria Beckham, its a brand with no soul. Just redesigning your competitor's best sellers is not creative.

Send all your unwanted Chanel suits ad vintage Gucci my way. There's a reason some clothing holds its value.

I'll take my share of the unwanted Chanel suits too, please And yes, the Reissue bags are sooo unbearably grandmaesque, but I'll do the right thing and take them all for the tPF team. Especially the So Black ones in chevre

LOL at the Disney for adults and Demna's raiding his mom's wardrobe. And now he's even disgracing his Georgian grandma's wardrobe for Bal. A grandma who obviously isn't wearing Chanel suits

 

[SomethingGoodCanWork]

You will be pleased to know that my dog ate my Birkin bag, and yes I did cry, a lot, not because I liked it, it was a present, never liked the shade of purple (looked like drinking too much red wine and then getting rid of it) and ostrich leather to me always looks like a plucked bird with goose bumps, but since I had it for 15 years and never wore it, thought I could sell it, while I put it on a white background, the phone rang and I left the room and Harvey pounced, to add insult to injury, he swallowed the key, so trip to the vet, x-rays, and checking his errr offerings for several days until the key reappeared and a surgery was avoided...

Personally I do like Hermes, the quality is fantastic, I do like the classic design and I never had a problem with product availability.

This is both the best and worst Hermès story I've read on tPF so far. It beats the one about a woman being seen by a tPF poster on vacation, carrying her Hermès like a trophy while walking lap after lap around a swimmingpool It's awful your dog ate what I guess must have been around 7-9000 USD worth of Hermès but at least you have a dog with very refined tastes What breed is Harvey?

 

[ladysarah]

This is both the best and worst Hermès story I've read on tPF so far. It beats the one about a woman being seen by a tPF poster on vacation, carrying her Hermès like a trophy while walking lap after lap around a swimmingpool It's awful your dog ate what I guess must have been around 7-9000 USD worth of Hermès but at least you have a dog with very refined tastes What breed is Harvey?

Do you have a pic of the poster...

 

[SomethingGoodCanWork]

Do you have a pic of the poster...

It was a poster I don't remember the name of right now, but she wrote about how she had seen this woman, while on her vacation.

Personally, if I had an Hermès bag, I wouldn't take it near a pool. I get bag preservation angst just by all the pics of fabulous bags with food I see here on tPF

 

[Gabs007]

This is both the best and worst Hermès story I've read on tPF so far. It beats the one about a woman being seen by a tPF poster on vacation, carrying her Hermès like a trophy while walking lap after lap around a swimmingpool It's awful your dog ate what I guess must have been around 7-9000 USD worth of Hermès but at least you have a dog with very refined tastes What breed is Harvey?

Apparently a lot more, since it was limited edition with platinum hardware...

Harvey is a rescue Dobie but I think they duped us because he is horse sized, and when he came to us he was 10 months and had I think 8 homes, lived his previous life in a small crate where he was only allowed out to do his business, so small wonder he was a bit nuts....

The 2nd picture is him with his girlfriend (he hasn't realised that he is neutered and courts her) who is a regular sized Jack Russel

 

[Gabs007]

Btw the tally of Harvey's destruction so far is

- 1 iPad flung against the wall and damaged beyond repair
- 2 iPhones, chewed
- Hubby's vintage Les Paul is a bit more vintage due to dog chewing on it (he has a bunch of others and vintage is vintage)
- Hermes Birkin
- Mulberry bag
- Fendi glasses
- Fendy spy bag
- Fendi shoes
- Prada shoes
- Prada wallet
- Osprey bag (he was slumming it)
- Jimmy Choo heels
- Escada evening gown
- Givenchy scarf
- Oscar de la Renta coat
- D&G leather coat
I possibly forgot a bunch of things, but him killing evil feather pillows and turning the living room into a winter wonderland is also quite spectacular, feather covered dog sitting there with "Wasn't me, it was the cat, honestly..."

Several antique tables and chairs, apparently the legs taste good...

He gets 5 hours of exercise every day, our dog walker who has him for 2 hours whimpers for mercy, we have been banned from the dog agility class as he and a husky he befriended laid waste to the course and then managed to jump the 6 foot fence...

He is a disaster but he is our disaster area

 

[bobolo]

Michael kors
Coach
Chanel
Gucci
Burberry

 

[bobolo]

I don't shop fast fashion, never have. It's easy for me to resist it. Plus, looking at what goes on behind the fast fashion industry is sad, so that makes me dislike it even more.

Me too
I do not buy fast fashion
But I do buy vintage !!!

 

[Gabs007]

And in case you are wondering, when I checked for how much the bags resell, I did cry, a river... And I did lecture Harvey that for that price I could have bought him a whole field to run in, with all the pig ears and chewies he can ever eat. He did look impressed, then went and destroyed the indestructable bed we had ordered, after all it lasted 3 weeks, which in terms of Harvey is indestructible....
He's 60 kilos of pure muscle and thinks everything is a toy, I managed to stop him eating our furniture and house by coating things with tiger balm, unfortunately he can also open doors and get into my clothes room, and yes, it does suck that he always only eats ONE shoe and has this unerring taste of "the more expensive it is, the more I want to rip it, I smell price tags"

 

[ladysarah]

Apparently a lot more, since it was limited edition with platinum hardware...

Harvey is a rescue Dobie but I think they duped us because he is horse sized, and when he came to us he was 10 months and had I think 8 homes, lived his previous life in a small crate where he was only allowed out to do his business, so small wonder he was a bit nuts....

The 2nd picture is him with his girlfriend (he hasn't realised that he is neutered and courts her) who is a regular sized Jack Russel

Blimey! That is a birkin eating dog.

 

[Gabs007]

Blimey! That is a birkin eating dog.

At the end of the day, that's all stuff and he's alive, though his unerring taste for the most expensive thing he can chew on, that is what worries me, loveliest dog you can meet, when I was attacked and assaulted, he just barked the attacker away, even the police went "If someone hits your mom, you are allowed to take a chunk out of them, and then we can find him easier when he checks into A&E because you have big teeth and the attacker will miss a pound of flesh" but in all honesty, all the Birkins in the world, even in colours I would like, wouldn't trade them for the big doofus who regularly wrecks havoc. Still would have preferred to sell the bag... But since we don't have kids, we even wrote our wills so that whoever looks after the zoo will get house and funds and if the pets are gone it will go to an animal charity (so somebody will have an interest that they are healthy). His other rescue brother is the exact opposite of him, can't be bothered to get up and likes the odd sprint (fast as hell) but then sleeps for the rest of the week and likes cuddles, and will not leave the house if there is rain. The cat overlords just watch it all with amusement and regularly complain that the food is not up to standards.... Oh the joy of having pets...

If it comes to unconditional love or expensive bag, the love wins