Thank you! 
So you understand what I was talking about. I will just have to be patient
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Probably, I think I shoved my red city bag on the back of a shelf in disgust and started looking for another vintage red bag to rehab. I didn't have much luck and I wanted it as a gift on a specific date, so I got it out again to see if I should try to repeat the rehab and I was amazed that it looked great!
I found this really sad looking small legacy (9997) purse at a thrift store I go to pretty frequently. The strap has been butchered.. cut and sewed so much that it is an absolute mess. I initially wasn't going to buy it, but when it was reduced to $3 I felt like I had to save it! Or buy it for the hangtag at least. Now I'm trying to figure out what to do to cover up the terrible sew job. Does anyone have any ideas? At the very least, I have nieces who I can pass it to for a play purse. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
I'm looking for some advice on repairing piping. I bought my husband a new, gorgeous black Bleecker breifcase for his birthday but I am not ready to discard his old Coach briefcase, a beautiful black Transatlantic Commuter 70303 SV BK. The bag is scuffed and dirty but I can take care of that fairly easily. The good news is that the zippers still work, it still has the original hangtags, and I've found the missing strap! It all sounds good until you look at the corners. 
Two of the corners aren't bad. The leather is very thin and the piping is beginning to show through, but I can stabilize them with fabric glue and touch them up with acrylic paint. But 2 of the corners are very, very bad. The leather is completely gone and the plastic piping material is sticking out of the bag, see the pics below.
I was thinking of washing, reshaping, and drying the bag, repairing the easy corners, then trimming off the plastic piping material from the bad corners. Securing the remaining piping material and worn leather with fabric glue, and building up the corners with acrylic paint.
Anyway, that's what I'm thinking , but before I plunge in, what would my fellow rehabbers do with this bag? Whateve recommended Fabric Puff Paint but I haven't used that product - are there any tips to help me use it effectively? Any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Two of the corners aren't bad. The leather is very thin and the piping is beginning to show through, but I can stabilize them with fabric glue and touch them up with acrylic paint. But 2 of the corners are very, very bad. The leather is completely gone and the plastic piping material is sticking out of the bag, see the pics below.
I was thinking of washing, reshaping, and drying the bag, repairing the easy corners, then trimming off the plastic piping material from the bad corners. Securing the remaining piping material and worn leather with fabric glue, and building up the corners with acrylic paint.
Anyway, that's what I'm thinking , but before I plunge in, what would my fellow rehabbers do with this bag? Whateve recommended Fabric Puff Paint but I haven't used that product - are there any tips to help me use it effectively? Any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance for your help!
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I have dealt with piping problems in the past, with mixed success, and I have learned to walk away from bags with bad piping problems - but this bag has lived in my house for a long time so I have to try and save it!
Cobbler. Do you live in a quaint little town in Vermont with covered bridges?? That being said said, I did go to a lol 'shoe place' at a big partially enclosed flea market part farm mart by me. They did some nice repairs on a few Talbots belts. I will keep them in mind for bag repairs.
Yes, that was me. I bought 2 bags before finding the Bleecker but I knew it was the right bag for my DH. Here are my posts about my painful briefcase journey (and apparently I am still on that journey because now I want to rehab the old briefcase!)
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/still-buying-with-the-outlet-coupon-but-for-somebody-else-this-time.960548/
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/i-found-a-nicer-gift-at-a-better-price-now-what-should-i-do.960716/
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/husbands-birthday-gift-belated-reveal.963403/
Nope, a big Midwestern Metropolis!
cob·bler
noun: cobbler; plural noun: cobblers
- a person who mends shoes as a job.
I don't think I would trim the plastic piping from the bad corners. I would just build up the corners over them. The plastic gives it the right shape. I've fixed corners that were this bad with puff paint. If you really want to do it right, you could get some very thin leather and glue it on.I'm looking for some advice on repairing piping. I bought my husband a new, gorgeous black Bleecker breifcase for his birthday but I am not ready to discard his old Coach briefcase, a beautiful black Transatlantic Commuter 70303 SV BK. The bag is scuffed and dirty but I can take care of that fairly easily. The good news is that the zippers still work, it still has the original hangtags, and I've found the missing strap! It all sounds good until you look at the corners.
Two of the corners aren't bad. The leather is very thin and the piping is beginning to show through, but I can stabilize them with fabric glue and touch them up with acrylic paint. But 2 of the corners are very, very bad. The leather is completely gone and the plastic piping material is sticking out of the bag, see the pics below.
I was thinking of washing, reshaping, and drying the bag, repairing the easy corners, then trimming off the plastic piping material from the bad corners. Securing the remaining piping material and worn leather with fabric glue, and building up the corners with acrylic paint.
Anyway, that's what I'm thinking , but before I plunge in, what would my fellow rehabbers do with this bag? Whateve recommended Fabric Puff Paint but I haven't used that product - are there any tips to help me use it effectively? Any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance for your help!
After trying to fix a few with the same piping issues as your briefcase, I've started walking away, too! I bought a men's messenger bag with the same issue before I knew what a pain it is to fix, and am considering saving the strap and tossing the rest.
I agree it won't look nice if you remove the plastic tube, since the piping will cave in. On one non-Coach, I couldn't get the plastic tube to slide back into the piping far enough, even with various pliers and swear words. I ended up cutting out a tiny section of tubing (just enough to make it fit in the piping, with the ends meeting), glueing the tubing to the bottom of the piping channel w/ E6000, then continuing as Whateve recommended. A real pain but it worked, in case you run into the same problem.
Speaking of piping problems, here's an (unauthenticated) $20 spectator City Bag challenge! Zoom pic #4. NMA.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/26296167377...3De11021.m43.l1120%26rvr_id%3D0&ul_noapp=true
http://www.ebay.com/itm/26296167377...3De11021.m43.l1120%26rvr_id%3D0&ul_noapp=true