Friends Chat Thread: Wardrobe, Fun, and Whatever

TPF may earn a commission from merchant affiliate
links, including eBay, Amazon, and others

#11,551
Genie, congratulations!!!!!! She is perfect and so very beautiful. Thank you for letting us share your joy,

Ari thank you for the reassurance. I will handwash. It isn’t doing me any good hanging in my closet to just look at.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Genie27
#11,552
Genie27 said:
Later that day...

I rush to the store, after frantically rearranging my day....

Out of breath from running up the stairs to the salon, and hyper ventilating from excitement! I meet my SA and she ushers me into the salon. Some small talk later she says, let me go get it...

Cue Jeopardy finale music as I sit and wait. Thankfully not for long. My phone is almost dead, bf is not answering any of my texts and eeekkkkkkkk.....

I’m giddy, I’m so excited because I want to see *the colour*

I had to close my eyes as she opened it as I wanted to see the whole bag.

......


OMG it was instant love!

I still rationally pondered it and discussed it with her for another 45 minutes - use, practicality, colour, leather etc but I’d already made my mind up that it was a yes.

Without further ado....
From her ‘bag shrine’ on my LR console,
May I present my Etoupe Togo B30 GHW......
Click to expand...
So beautiful and versatile! Congrats!
 
  • Like
Reactions: Genie27
#11,554
EmileH said:
Another winter outfit. The tunic portion of the two piece chanel set that I bought on eBay last year, Chanel blouse, Paule Ka skirt. These are wolford neon 20 tights which are semi sheer. I think semisheer tights are more flattering than opaque, but they are difficult to find.

ca8e1730ad9c48d5f7f22f7c3eebdd1a.jpg
Click to expand...

Love the outfit! I have the same blouse and I’m also scared of it!
 
  • Like
Reactions: EmileH
#11,555
Genie27 said:
Later that day...

I rush to the store, after frantically rearranging my day....

Out of breath from running up the stairs to the salon, and hyper ventilating from excitement! I meet my SA and she ushers me into the salon. Some small talk later she says, let me go get it...

Cue Jeopardy finale music as I sit and wait. Thankfully not for long. My phone is almost dead, bf is not answering any of my texts and eeekkkkkkkk.....

I’m giddy, I’m so excited because I want to see *the colour*

I had to close my eyes as she opened it as I wanted to see the whole bag.

......


OMG it was instant love!

I still rationally pondered it and discussed it with her for another 45 minutes - use, practicality, colour, leather etc but I’d already made my mind up that it was a yes.

Without further ado....
From her ‘bag shrine’ on my LR console,
May I present my Etoupe Togo B30 GHW......
Click to expand...

Congrats, this bag is perfection!
 
  • Like
Reactions: Genie27
#11,556
Genie27 said:
Later that day...

I rush to the store, after frantically rearranging my day....

Out of breath from running up the stairs to the salon, and hyper ventilating from excitement! I meet my SA and she ushers me into the salon. Some small talk later she says, let me go get it...

Cue Jeopardy finale music as I sit and wait. Thankfully not for long. My phone is almost dead, bf is not answering any of my texts and eeekkkkkkkk.....

I’m giddy, I’m so excited because I want to see *the colour*

I had to close my eyes as she opened it as I wanted to see the whole bag.

......


OMG it was instant love!

I still rationally pondered it and discussed it with her for another 45 minutes - use, practicality, colour, leather etc but I’d already made my mind up that it was a yes.

Without further ado....
From her ‘bag shrine’ on my LR console,
May I present my Etoupe Togo B30 GHW......
Click to expand...

Woot! It’s gorgeous! [emoji173]️
 
#11,557
Genie, congrats. You can paint pictures with your words, my heart was pounding with you as I was reading this [emoji4]

The coldest I experienced this year was in London so here is my contribution. All Brunello Cucinelli and Nickolas Kirkwood shoes
c211c2a21b50c970d82c78fc7acea3a1.jpg

Excuse the bathroom in the background - hotel rooms don’t give many option for selfies
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: Elina0408, cafecreme15, Moirai and 4 others
#11,559
And here she is with her ‘summers day’ twilly - she takes to colour so well!

I ended up taking the twilly off before I took her on her maiden voyage - I guess I am team no-twilly. She matches my SW boots perfectly.
 

Attachments

  • 823FC0A8-A560-4237-ABB0-A6E6E1FA37D5.jpeg
    823FC0A8-A560-4237-ABB0-A6E6E1FA37D5.jpeg
    245.2 KB · Views: 290
  • EB88820D-0F64-416F-B9A5-DAB1A85B0111.jpeg
    EB88820D-0F64-416F-B9A5-DAB1A85B0111.jpeg
    180.4 KB · Views: 284
  • Like
Reactions: Elina0408, chaneljewel, Katel and 5 others
#11,562
Genie27 said:
Later that day...

I rush to the store, after frantically rearranging my day....

Out of breath from running up the stairs to the salon, and hyper ventilating from excitement! I meet my SA and she ushers me into the salon. Some small talk later she says, let me go get it...

Cue Jeopardy finale music as I sit and wait. Thankfully not for long. My phone is almost dead, bf is not answering any of my texts and eeekkkkkkkk.....

I’m giddy, I’m so excited because I want to see *the colour*

I had to close my eyes as she opened it as I wanted to see the whole bag.

......


OMG it was instant love!

I still rationally pondered it and discussed it with her for another 45 minutes - use, practicality, colour, leather etc but I’d already made my mind up that it was a yes.

Without further ado....
From her ‘bag shrine’ on my LR console,
May I present my Etoupe Togo B30 GHW......
Click to expand...
OMG this is FABULOUS!! Congrats Genie! Please share mod pics so we can see how you pair it with your outfits!
 
  • Like
Reactions: Genie27
#11,565
Cordeliere said:
While the rest of you are out shopping, I am home trying to push items out the door. Momasaurus and PBP are giving me moral support, but I need more. I can see how silly I am being trying to hang on to stuff I am not using. Sharing my rationalizations makes me laugh at myself and makes it a bit easier. By posting my inner dialogues, I am inviting you to laugh at me and ridicule me so that I say to myself "All right. I will let it go."

It is not hard to list things of value that I don't use. I keep repeating PBP wisdom that it is not enough for something to be pretty, it has to be useful. I have sold a gavroche and a pair of twillys and it is exciting to sell them and have money coming in instead of going out. They were just sitting in the drawer, totally unused. The only issue with selling silks is admitting I made a mistake buying them. I think everyone goes through trial and error with Hermes and makes color mistakes.

What is killing me to get rid of is the purses I carried in the early 2000s. We are talking about entry level designer bags, that I bought used off of ebay. Not a lot of money invested in them and I got a ton of wear out of them. (Hear that sigh of relief... Just saying that is helping me.) I was going to sell them for $20 to $40 on ebay just because I want them to go to a good home. I don't want them to suffer the indignity of being in a big bin at Goodwill. Seriously. How stupid is that??? Cordie, do you hear yourself???

Just sent DH out the door to goodwill with 30 of his shirts and 3 of my old bags. He picked up the box and said "Are you sure? There is a purse in here. And it is purple." I shrieked and actually swore at him. He grabbed the box and ran for the door, realizing his mistake.

The old inexpensive bags I was going to sell first come down to the table to be photographed. Photographing them reminds me of everything i loved about them in the first place. I appreciate the nice leather, the useful dimensions, the great handles, and the comfortable opening size and closures. I say the following things to myself:

If I get rid of this, I won't have a red purse.

I have been wanting another blue bag in a different shade. This is a great color. I could carry this.

I need an over the shoulder bag, and I carried this one a lot and got lots of compliments on it.

Isn't faux leopard fun? (This was the easiest one to say naah to).

This will be a great bag when I am a really old lady and have trouble carrying a bag. (ha ha ridiculous huh?)


The bags all heard these things and recognized their opportunity. One by one they snuck back upstairs and into my closet.


Today I forced them all back down to meet their fates. And it makes me sad that they will be going. I am telling myself that poor people need nice bags. And as DH said in an effort to be supportive, " You (me) should not hog them."

I have learned a couple of things from this:

It made it very clear that I am a bag person, not a scarf person.

It also makes it very clear that there is some number of bags, (12-16) that if I exceed, I can't use them all. i thought my desire ideal bag number of 12 was very arbitrary, but now I can see the wisdom of it.

It is making me very very careful about what I let into my closet, because an unused item is too hard to get out. Breaking up so hard to do.

I need some TPF vibes to awaken all of those potential buyers out there who are currently money challenged and who would be thrilled to have a really nice leather bag for $30 (including a matching wallet--haha) and draw them to my beloved bags who need new adopted homes.

I am ashamed and sad, but I did write this post to shame myself into letting these bags go through whatever path they need to take. Thanks for letting me share my angst.
Click to expand...

I love this post. This Is Me. Exactly.
How is your rehoming going Cordy? Mine is going v slowly...like a turtle walking from Paris to Rome...
I miss this lovely thread,
really the lovely people in this thread - and the dialogue.
Hi peeps! Happy almost springtime!:wave: :flowers:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top