Coach Rehab and Rescue Club

[Lake Effect]

Thanks, Gingerone. Don't know if it is luck so much as persistence. I lost my job a while back and have been freelancing from home. With no commute, I can thrift several times a week. I also live in NYC, home of the original Coach factory and probably the largest historical Coach market, so there is something to be said for proximity. Some folks in Florida also have outstanding luck, because the state is "God's waiting room," as the joke goes.

Yes! There are old posts from a woman who lived in Florida and found amazing things her local GW.
I hit a GW in my mom's town last year, just south of Sarasota and scored 3 nice bags bags (one a NYC) for $25 each. There were at least 15 vintage Coach. My eyes almost fell out of my head. Since the thrifting is hit and (mostly) miss in my local area, I felt like I had hit the jackpot. My guess was someone was down sizing or clearing out someone's estate/belongings.

 

[whateve]

Ty! Maybe I am mixing up my fruits. I see Mango, not banana. But that yellow looks amazing.
ETA And those ergos of all shapes and sizes are the cutest. But also, unfortunately, heavily knocked off. At least from what I see second hand online and at thrift shops.

There was a banana. I couldn't find the picture at the time. Here it is.

 

[whateve]

Lucky you, BronxBeauty. I also work from home, and the thrift stores around me never seem to have vintage bags. Maybe it’s California, but I only seem to find them online. You’ve inspired me to check thrift stores more often though. [emoji57]

I am orig from the NYC/LI area and I miss thrifting around the city. There are still treasures out there. I do believe that there is more coach there than anywhere, as it was the hometown status "good" bag for so long. I have to find bags on ebay as the pickings are slim to none by me (LA) and my neighborhood has gentrified out of thrift stores. I love the NYC bags, they have the history attached to them.

California is terrible for thrifting. Most stores are so overpriced when they do get something. We did really well shopping in the East and the South. In California, I've done pretty good in Escondido, Oxnard, and Sacramento.

 

[BronxBeauty]

There was a banana. I couldn't find the picture at the time. Here it is.

I have a Littleton drawstring in red. it is the cutest thing.

 

[Minchanka]

Thanks, Gingerone. Don't know if it is luck so much as persistence. I lost my job a while back and have been freelancing from home. With no commute, I can thrift several times a week. I also live in NYC, home of the original Coach factory and probably the largest historical Coach market, so there is something to be said for proximity. Some folks in Florida also have outstanding luck, because the state is "God's waiting room," as the joke goes.

Interesting. I am also in NYC, and lots of what I see in the thrift shops is overpriced junk. I pretty much stopped visiting them, except for one chain, and I have some serious competition there. If you are the petite woman that snatched a burgundy crescent bag in East Village, hi.

 

[BronxBeauty]

Interesting. I am also in NYC, and lots of what I see in the thrift shops is overpriced junk. I pretty much stopped visiting them, except for one chain, and I have some serious competition there. If you are the petite woman that snatched a burgundy crescent bag in East Village, hi.

Wasn't me! Have never been to that one.

 

[dgphoto]

Here's a few.

Oh, my...collecting goals [emoji7]
I do have a lavender Ergo I got for $6. Seller on Mercari said it was in poor shape and it’s almost perfect aside from some fading!

 

[nursebetty]

QUOTE="Gingerone, post: 32406681, member: 446433"]Thank you! I think it was you that I was thinking of, because it was a BT bag that was being touched up. Saphir brown color charts are v. confusing - how ever did you match it? I may start with the black, as that is easy. I can't search here at the moment, so thank you for helping me out.

My FP chick is an accurate representation [/QUOTE]

I tried the Saphir colorant ( the one in a tube) mixed with Chamberlains Leather Milk on a very scuffed and scratched Manor bag. I found the pigment saturation to be better than acrylic, and I liked that the product claims to be 'breathable'. I am really pleased with how the bag looks now, not so much with how it feels. I would say it's just tbe tiniest bit 'plastic-ey'. (That's a word, right? )

 

[Lake Effect]

There was a banana. I couldn't find the picture at the time. Here it is.

Thanks. Yes, I have that pic of the Littletons somewhere. I have seen several Pear green lightweights in a few styles on the bay lately.

 

[Lake Effect]

Interesting. I am also in NYC, and lots of what I see in the thrift shops is overpriced junk. I pretty much stopped visiting them, except for one chain, and I have some serious competition there. If you are the petite woman that snatched a burgundy crescent bag in East Village, hi.

If you ever see two women going mano a mano over a Coach at a GW, you will know I found @Belicious 's motherlode GW.

 

[Lake Effect]

California is terrible for thrifting. Most stores are so overpriced when they do get something. We did really well shopping in the East and the South. In California, I've done pretty good in Escondido, Oxnard, and Sacramento.

My neck of the woods here in the East is hit and mostly miss. I am in the shadow of two cities, one I believe is literally at the bottom of the barrel nationwide for crime and poverty, and yet interspersed with small towns of old money and new money. Some of the thrift shops are really dirty and awful and most the consignment shops are pricey when it comes to handbags. I am rediscoving local flee markets and Plato's closet. And there is a Saver's an hour away!

 

[Tosa22]

There was a banana. I couldn't find the picture at the time. Here it is.

I love that you have all these old photos!!

 

[valv54]

California is terrible for thrifting. Most stores are so overpriced when they do get something. We did really well shopping in the East and the South. In California, I've done pretty good in Escondido, Oxnard, and Sacramento.

I was just think of you guys today and all your fantastic finds as I left the American family thrift, salty and empty-handed. I live in Pennsylvania and the pickings for a vintage coach (or an almost vintage) are nonexistent at best and if I find something coach it's a 2000 signature print nightmare, or fake. I have to resort to the bay.

 

[whateve]

I was just think of you guys today and all your fantastic finds as I left the American family thrift, salty and empty-handed. I live in Pennsylvania and the pickings for a vintage coach (or an almost vintage) are nonexistent at best and if I find something coach it's a 2000 signature print nightmare, or fake. I have to resort to the bay.

In 2014, we passed through Pennsylvania and a store in E. Stroudsburg had all bags for $4. There were some Coaches, nothing really great. I got a basic bag. In another store in Milford, I found a Fendi for $5 under a huge stack of purses. I still consider that one of my best scores.

 

[valv54]

In 2014, we passed through Pennsylvania and a store in E. Stroudsburg had all bags for $4. There were some Coaches, nothing really great. I got a basic bag. In another store in Milford, I found a Fendi for $5 under a huge stack of purses. I still consider that one of my best scores.

I think I know the one in East Stroudsburg, I actually think there's only one. Don't get me wrong, I find alot of other kinds of cool vintage bags, but no coach. Good thrifting for cloths and antimes around here though