Designing your own bag?

[Lejic]

I saw this kickstarter offering it and I immediately thought of the purseblog forum community!

At least for me, it was a very tempting offer, I have to admit. A lot of times I find myself ALMOST buying a bag but finding one or two annoying things with it, or things that keep it from being perfect. I won't try the kickstarter thing because it sounds pretty time-consuming to design a bag over e-mails/phonecalls since I don't live in the same country as them, but I was wondering what are YOUR thoughts? If given the chance, would you pay to be able to design (and obviously own) a bag?

For reference, this kickstarter campaign uses only vegetable leather as construction material and was asking for $1.5 CAD. So it IS an investment for a purse that will essentially be as good for you as the effort you're willing to give, as well as a leap of faith (because let's be real, whatever something looks like on paper, it might suck irl).

 

[Shelby33]

If I could afford it, I would love to design my own bag. I'd love to pick out exactly what leather would be used and what the color would be. I can never find colors I really love.

 

[Sparkletastic]

I LOVE the idea but there are a lot of hurdles.

• The company would have to make me feel comfortable that was going to get an excellent product
- Excellent redraft / refund / return / policy
- Hand holding design guidance (I don't do
this for a living and would need
consultation.)
- Superb leather & hardware and
construction. (Not sure how they'd
convince me of this.) I wouldn't be
interested in vegan / veg leather, coated
canvas or other non leather materials
except possibly velvet or tweed.
- Good after sale care: repairs, etc.

• I wouldn't pay $1500. For $1500 I can get a killer preloved premier designer bag that I will love and be able to sell for a good portion of what I paid. My designed bag would be essentially worthless on resale, not carry any cache and have a risk of being ugly or poorly functioning simply because I designed it.

 

[RayKay]

Nope, there is enough out there for me to choose from already.

I learned my lessons (and lost enough money) with custom jewelry, no need to try and repeat that with bags as well! Despite a lot of planning and "design", my favourite and lifelong pieces turned out to be preloved ones, designed by others ~80-110 years ago. What looks good in the head, or even on paper, often does not work out in real life as well. It is a terrible feeling to put a lot of thought and money into what you think will be perfect for you...and realize not long after it is not so perfect for you at all!

I prefer to know exactly what I am getting these days, I have found enough ready made bags that work for me without me feeling "this and that would make it perfect"

 

[remainsilly]

I'll be real--for that price, expect someone else to do the design work.
That's lunching with ladies & wandering through boutiques category.
Not for exchanging tedious emails with strangers & piling sketches on my desk.

However, did design custom baseball glove.
So, you know, priorities...