How to keep the shape of your Birkin
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Yes I make my own pillows as in I go to the store buy a pillow choose a nice cover generally a color close to the bag and then remove or add stuffing to the pillow depending on how much they need my bouganvillier clemence 35 cm needed a more stuffing to actually help it hold it's shape than my vache liegge needed nothing and naturally my swift needed more and my shoulder needed two small tootsi roll type pillows to stay up straight I usually keep teem standing up but because I wear a birkin at some point three to five times a week so it really becomes a job to putthem down close the box lay the paper but I do love the feel of opening up the bag again and I always close them and add the HW mask they come with!!! Hope it helps birkel.
Really? Interesting - I had no idea.
My Birkin is my everyday bag, so the days I don't carry her are either really rainy days, or somewhere inappropriate, so if she's out of use, it's only for a day or two & she's got her own shelf in my (dark) closet.
I use down filled travel pillows covered in a lovely pillowcase for each bag. It seems to be enough "stuffing" for them to keep their shape.
And then I store them up-right on their bases inside by armoire. I can see every bag I have which makes it easier to rotate them (I don't have tons of bags) and they look pretty when I open my armoire in the morning.
And then I store them up-right on their bases inside by armoire. I can see every bag I have which makes it easier to rotate them (I don't have tons of bags) and they look pretty when I open my armoire in the morning.
Well, thank you, Bababebi. That actually makes sense. It is impractical (IMO) to put the bags in their boxes. When I think back, I realize that most designers treat their bags this way. I hate to manipulate my Hermes boxes. So, when I put my togo retourne kelly to bed, she should sleep on her side, so her bottom doesn't wrinkle prematurely (like mine, LOL!)
The only bag I have a real issue with is my Double sens. She is mostly flat or folded. Oy, so many rules. Actually it makes sense.
The same procedure was recommended to me by the SA. A bit tedious but if you want to keep it's shape this is the best way imho. I don't understand why moonlight would affect the skin though..are moon UV rays that strong? (LOL)
Well, DH is going to love this...I'm gonna need a bigger closet for my bags to sleep side by side on their backs rather than stuffed and standing up
Or I buy only boxcalf 
Seriously, though, this is good to know, since I assumed that if I stuffed the softer leather Birkins enough, they would not develop that crease.
Well, DH is going to love this...I'm gonna need a bigger closet for my bags to sleep side by side on their backs rather than stuffed and standing up
Well, OB, has lilOB outgrown her crib?, Because you could let the babies sleep side by side. I'm also thinking, that my togo kelly has been sitting on it's 35 cm bottom it's entire life. This is true of all of my other bags. Not one of them looks any the worse for wear. They are all good.
Not if there's anything inside the bag. The weight inside will weigh against the back zippered pocket, leaving a mark the shape of the pocket on the back.
Also, my Kelly has been out and upright every night for at least 8 months,but that one's VL, I don't think it's going to slouch any time soon!
I do rotate my bags, with the one being used, stored at night stuffed, belted up and in
the sleeper bag on it's side. Then, if I will not be using it for awhile, it goes back in it's
box with the original air pillows, from the store, belted with the felt and sleeping peacefully
on her side on her "pillow"! I love the smell of the leather when you take them back out
of the box, just like the day it came home!!! That is a wonderful idea to put rolled up
towels in them while they put away for the night. So many wonderful tips on TPF!
the sleeper bag on it's side. Then, if I will not be using it for awhile, it goes back in it's
box with the original air pillows, from the store, belted with the felt and sleeping peacefully
on her side on her "pillow"! I love the smell of the leather when you take them back out
of the box, just like the day it came home!!! That is a wonderful idea to put rolled up
towels in them while they put away for the night. So many wonderful tips on TPF!
Just a few months ago i spoke to a leather specialist in my store she was doing a demonstration so i was asking lots of questions and she told a story of someone at H who was making an ostrich B who left the bag siting at her station overnight with a pair of scisors lying on top of the leather and when coming into work in the morning found where scisors lay you could see the different colour in skin that the moonlight had made in just one night so yes she said moonlight is worse than sunlight
Wow *thumbs up*!!! Thanks for the knowledgable advice! I have been keeping them "standing" upright.
When I got my first Birkin, I left it "standing up" with straps untucked. It started to develop a crease at the lower part of the body and the straps were stretched downwards. Now I keep them on their back with straps tucked in. They look as new as the day I got them!
