I believe when I did this many years ago, Folk Art craft paint in linen was a perfect match. I've been trying to touch up a spectator bag that has tabac trim. It is so hard to do.
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Ah paint matching....there needs to be an online course on it to help us. Scoop of this, dab of that, oops...
Thanks but not yet, anything from U.S. usually take 2 weeks or more. I will keep you informed.
Yep, it's that "oops" part I'm hoping to avoid......
Maybe I'll just enjoy that gently worn Spectator Court look........
I was bad at paint mixing before but get better now. Practice and practice, try it on scrap fabric or anything, eventually you will get a hang of it. Also buy the paint as close color as possible, then just need a little adjust with either black, white, red, yellow, blue etc. Add adjusting color little bit and mix thoroughly each time. Because paint color may change once dry, it is best to test on a hidden spot and let it dry to determine if the color is a match. Meanwhile store the mixed paint (you can thin it with paint floating medium) in an airtight small container.
I'm not leaving the house these days so any paint mixing I do has to be with paints I already own.
Sometimes I can't tell what I need to add or I don't have the perfect paint to add.
Hi all, I have a vintage Coach pet peeve to the point that I'm considering just not buying any more bags with this strap configuration. I don't think the bags with the non-detachable straps and the square d-rings were ever really supposed to be worn crossbody. It works fine wearing them one one shoulder so they hang nice and parallel to the body, but once you wear them crossbody and the strap is pulled taut at an angle, the little strap loops tend to creep around the ring's corner and get stretched out. I'm attaching a photo in case I'm not making sense. Both my City and Blazer do this to a degree, but I have a Chester with a severe case of this. Has anyone ever found a good solution? Here are the options I'm considering:
1) Leave as is. The stretch is probably at its maximum, accommodating the whole corner. I guess it wouldn't get much worse, but the look bothers me.
2) Apply glue and try to tighten the loop myself. Cheapest option and no additional supplies needed, but maybe not greatest for longevity and huge potential to eff up.
3) Take her to a cobbler and have the loops professionally tightened. I wouldn't mind the cost but would be worried that the same thing would happen again, but now with already stretched out leather, potentially tearing the loop over time.
4) In a combination of DIY and cobbler, change the rings to actual d-rings and attach clips to the strap for ultimate crossbody bliss. My favorite option in theory, but probably hard to pull off. I think the square rings are welded together or even completely continuous, so I don't know how easy that would be.
Does anybody have any insight or experience in fixing that specific problem? TIA and sorry for lengthy obsessive post!
1) Leave as is. The stretch is probably at its maximum, accommodating the whole corner. I guess it wouldn't get much worse, but the look bothers me.
2) Apply glue and try to tighten the loop myself. Cheapest option and no additional supplies needed, but maybe not greatest for longevity and huge potential to eff up.
3) Take her to a cobbler and have the loops professionally tightened. I wouldn't mind the cost but would be worried that the same thing would happen again, but now with already stretched out leather, potentially tearing the loop over time.
4) In a combination of DIY and cobbler, change the rings to actual d-rings and attach clips to the strap for ultimate crossbody bliss. My favorite option in theory, but probably hard to pull off. I think the square rings are welded together or even completely continuous, so I don't know how easy that would be.
Does anybody have any insight or experience in fixing that specific problem? TIA and sorry for lengthy obsessive post!
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to my surprise I now have 5 bags that have touched down in Auckland....I only thought that 2 would be arriving this week.
So excited.
So Plaza , Berkeley saddle, precreed, a taft, and the black willis.
Im not going to know what to do with myself.
I have my bottle green city that has had this happen badly. But I love the bag and see it as its history. No idea what to do to stop it so cant help....I do understand the frustration
This is not exactly the advice you were looking for but I know from experience you can cut through the rings with bolt cutters. Of course I work at a middle school where kids think it funny to put their gym padlock on other people’s hall lockers with built in locks so they can’t get in and so bolt cutters are accessible to me.
I removed the rings on my Court and replaced them with Willis style d-rings
Crossbody is really a newer thing, at least in the US, so those older bags probably were meant for the shoulder.
Yeah I agree with the other posters, the paint matching part was the pits. I was never happy with the Wooster bag I painted. I ended up wiping it all off and eventually determined that the ugly side was going to be the side that lays up against me. I gave up matching the red on my Chrystie. I would get a bit of paint mixed that I thought matched, applied it, and it would dry not matching. Then I had to determine if it was a tad too light or too dark but by then I had used up the bit of mix I made, and I could never get back to the exact mix I had that was close. Or the paint would match fantastic but it would have a very obviously different sheen in different lights even though the texture looked identical. I noticed it was wasting paint and wasting CPR. I tried not using CPR and it really did not make it easier or harder. This part of rehabbing is clearly not for me! I have been thinking about adding small fringe strips across the front of the Chrystie or a vertical snakeskin leather strip or something.
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Never noticed that. Most vintage coach strap is too short to wear crossbody for me, I prefer bags hang below the hip.
Thanks for posting this, when looking for a bag, I now know to watch for stretched strap loops.
Wondering if it is possible to use color safe bleach power( mix into paste) to bleach lighter the dark stain of your red Chrystie first. Then mix cpr and matching red acrylic paint, use COSMETIC SPONGE to apply THINLY over the stain area and FEATHERED into surrounding area. May need several layers. Each layer applied do not disturbed it by trying to adjust the spreading while wet. I found paint brush applied color don't blend in well, usually have a different sheen after drying.
(probably need to wipe the bag with vinegar first, or clean the bag with something to remove grease before painting)