Nice to hear from you
@tealocean , I hope you and your family are all well
@Iamminda you are too kind to
Mr Dawn, I can’t tell him any of your compliments because if I do, they will go to his head
So I unboxed my new Boy, and my reflections were the following:
1) Oh my goodness, she’s gorgeous
2) She’s not blue!! She’s turquoise!!
3) She can’t be Sapphire, she’s like a peacock feather… She’s Penelope the Peacock!!
4) Oh my goodness, she’s gorgeous
5) How is she turquoise? Is the website deceptive, or did Mr Dawn buy the wrong one?
6) Do I care that she’s turquoise instead of blue? I have no turquoise in my wardrobe! But I also have no turquoise in my bag wardrobe! Is that a good thing (no duplicates?) or a bad thing (less matchy-matchy possibilities?!)
7) I’m a fraud! I told all my TPF friends she’s sapphire!
8) Oh my goodness, she’s gorgeous!
Crux of the matter is I’ve been agonising over whether or not to keep her because she’s not the sapphire colour I had in mind, but as my
Mum put it - “are you Aristotle, that what you first had in mind matters that much? If she’s beautiful, keep her!”
I definitely can’t replace the original sapphire bag Mr Dawn and I bought together before Christmas because Chanel confirmed she’s faulty and that there’s no more new stock. So the option is to keep Penelope (because she’s gorgeous!) or hold out for next seasons in case something even better comes along.
I know that several of my friends
@tealocean @Venessa84 @BlueCherry will be delighted at this chameleon blue: leaning between cyan, royal, very dark duck egg and turquoise blue in different lights, but I keep going hamster in wheel (gorgeous! But not sapphire!) Pictures attached!
Plus Mr Dawn says he’s never surprising me with a bag, ever, because the wrong shade of blue stirs up so much soul and wardrobe searching, that he’s just not a strong enough man to take a punt on such important decisions by himself
In short, this is more purse drama than I can handle!! But I’m 80% veering towards keeping her (because she’s so gorgeous- see a theme to my hamster-in-wheel thoughts?!)
— it’s been way too long since we last heard from you. Yes, your life sounds insanely busy
The capacity is the same as the M/L flap, as I’d seen in the store, but the gussets are designed to be wider on the side than the bottom of the bag! Which means that no matter how I pack it, I get a concave curve to the side of the bag in profile (they’re bowed in!) The answer would be to put very little in it, so that it’s only as much as the capacity of the bottom gusset, but it’s really hard to prevent things moving around in a largely empty bag, and if they move towards one side, the same bowing effect happens on one side! Plus, then it’s like a WOC and I don’t want a WOC, I want to use it like the M/L flap. I think I’m going to have to return it 
. I know it’s often hard to know how a bag will work out until we try putting things in it and carrying it at home. I don’t supposed there’s a purse organizer that would remedy the problem (I generally don’t like using one since it adds to the weight and takes up room). I hope it goes well with the return and you find something better either then or later. Please keep us posted.
He showed the bag to the manager who agreed that its stitching is faulty (which is why one side is wider than the other) and gave him a full refund.
