You are right. The signature line was introduced in 2000. It's funny how many people forget or don't know that Coach was strictly leather goods for a long time!
Co-worker's comment about my Alexandra.
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You are right. The signature line was introduced in 2000. It's funny how many people forget or don't know that Coach was strictly leather goods for a long time!
I used the wear the siggys but now I'm strictly leather. I have a pair of shoes that are siggys and got compliments already.
I started out on the siggys also. When I purchased my first leather(black poppy pocket hobo), that was it for me on the siggy! I am now in leatherland and loving it! I'm never drawn to siggy anymore, except for MFF accessories. There are a lot of people around me that buy fakes at flea markets and such, and I feel so bad for them that they are so excited to have found a brand new with tags coach bag for 20 bucks. Then a few weeks later their strap breaks, or the zipper breaks...or whatever, but I would never be able to tell them that it's not real, because they are so happy!
Not a bag lady. More of a trunk-of-someone's-car bag lady.
I wan't offended at all. I do think it's funny that a siggie bag (even a fake) might be recognized by some as being more of a status symbol than a quality leather bag.
I have an acorn Alexandra and love it! I will say, like others who posted already, I, too, live in Siggy Land!! EVERYONE around here carries siggy bags, and I've found that I don't have much success when I occasionally try to sell leather bags on craigslist. The buyers in my area are only interested in signature Coach. I do have 2 Legacy bags that are signature, and I do love them, and will never part with them, but for the most part I've totally graduated to leather.
I kind of makes it more fun when you have one of your leather bags out and someone comments because you know they are into bags like you are. When someone compliments my sig bag I think it's just because they know it's "Coach" but when comment on my leather bags I know they are a bag person and know a nice bag when they see one or that they are into Coach as well.
It's funny because my SIL commented to me when I got my first Coach back in May that she is "such a Coach whore" and I was like umm....ok. She doesn't know that I have gotten into Coach and so now that I have and I have come here and gotten educated I know that everything she has is siggy and MFF. and she only wants stuff with C's on it. So here she is thinking she is the shiznit with her siggy this and siggy that and little does she know she isn't even getting the best deal at the outlet because has has no clue about FPD's at all. She just wants a "Coach" bag. I fell in love with Coach for an entirely different reason like everyone else here. So really, you can't listen to someone that isn't into bags.
It's funny because my SIL commented to me when I got my first Coach back in May that she is "such a Coach whore" and I was like umm....ok. She doesn't know that I have gotten into Coach and so now that I have and I have come here and gotten educated I know that everything she has is siggy and MFF. and she only wants stuff with C's on it. So here she is thinking she is the shiznit with her siggy this and siggy that and little does she know she isn't even getting the best deal at the outlet because has has no clue about FPD's at all. She just wants a "Coach" bag. I fell in love with Coach for an entirely different reason like everyone else here. So really, you can't listen to someone that isn't into bags.
I totally stay away from the signature pieces unless it's a black on black and you can't see it or the coated canvas bags I use for rainy days or going somewhere I think my bag has the potential to get dirty/ruined.
I too live in Siggy City, USA and I prefer my bags not to scream COACH. I do have a few bags that have a large coach logo, like my black tattoo tote but that logo is so cool and different, that I don't mind as much.
I too live in Siggy City, USA and I prefer my bags not to scream COACH. I do have a few bags that have a large coach logo, like my black tattoo tote but that logo is so cool and different, that I don't mind as much.
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This is such a funny story, because I almost always assume every siggy bag I see is a fake (it just seems that there are so many bad siggy fakes out there), I'm much more likely to assume a leather is authentic (provided it doesn't look too cheap.
WOW! There's fake leather Coach too?
I would love to see pictures!