Thank you, I have shoes that almost match the colour and it is one that I can use all year! I agree on the barenia and that is why I finally decided not to bid on it although it is the chocolate or the cocoan colours which I really have been looking for. Have you seen any cocoan besides the wonderfully gorgeous and pristine 35 cm Birkin (lot 126) that sold today? I am only 5'2" and I look silly when I go over 32 cm MAXimum size for me--like a child dragging her Mom's too heavy bag. The 40 cm chocolate is bigger than my carryon airplanes bag!
In my honest opinion, I think that some people selling from their own collection check the current retail prices for size and leather and somehow forget that they have been using (and in some cases, beating up) their Hermes handbags. So they set their "Reserve" prices too high for reality and for someone buying a bag that she has not personally selected every feature.
But that is only my opinion from seeing condition reports and the bags themselves and the escalating auction prices.
Are you going to Paris for the Hermes sale in June? Are you in London? Do you know when the Hermes sale is in London for Spring/Summer?
So did you bid successfully today or not?
