The other part of today's thrifting haul: a dirty, flattened city bag. Bet she will clean up nicely.
Coach Rehab and Rescue Club
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I have only ever found one courier in a thrift store. The others I had topay significantly more for on ebay.
That smaller round one is particularly hard to find. I have only one in very bad condition.
I am leery of dye projects, so for me the vote would be "sell."
By the way, that's a luscious lineup of duffles you have there in the background.
Love my duffle babies. They are so huge though, they have to hang on the wall or they take up an entire closet!
HOLY MOTHER OF PEARL!!!! Wow!!!
Thank you so much for your advice, Belicious & Catbird9! I will check out the link and buy your recommended products. I hope I have the courage to dunk... it's scary! what if I ruin it?
Almost impossible to ruin it with a dunk. You won't be sorry.
You will do fine. The first one is scary..... and then if you are like many of us you will get hooked on saving these beauties and you will be looking for your next one. Good luck!
I think I would have run to the register and screamed when I got to the car, Maybe you should buy a lottery ticket! Good for you Congratulations!
About $5 for a bottle of rit dye is about all I would lose. I guess I would just try brown and hope that it just covers the bits that have lightened? Actually the bag only cost like $6. I could return it too I guess ( to goodwill, I kept the sticker). It is in much better condition than when I bought it!
Todays rehabs. The lexington looks particularly in need...
Awww catbird, thanks so much for posting the post by momtok
Good times. Memory lane. Somewhere back in around 2012, 2013 when I had a handful of vintage, I did a casual search on the internet about rehabbing Coach after I read something somewhere that alluded to full on immersion of a leather handbag. That could not possibly be true. At all. Lol lolI stumbled onto Momtok’s posts with photos and my jaw dropped. I did dunk a Saddle and a Patti after that , both black, but only used Lexol conditioner and could not understand why they came out streaked. Well of course now I know it is because Lexol is not heavy enough.
So I decided to really check out this full out refurbish effort around the summer of 2016. I found a bunch of rehab posts and found my way here.
So here I am, what, about two dozen handbags later dunked, some twice, and a suede haversack that went through the washer
They are great looking. I am probably the only one here that has passed them up at flea markets, etc. The storage alone would be enough to deter me, and they are just too cavernous, though ymmv! I do have one Sling Bag, and would not say no to another one in purple or green or red, if I see one for less than what I have seen on eBay $$$.