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Coach used all kinds of names for purses, some more fanciful than others. The way to look for a style is to search for only the numbers after the dash. The first one was called something like signature stripe tote. I don't know the exact name. The second bag is fake. If you search the style number, you can see the style should look like these: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr...=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=coach+12429
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The first one, signature stripe tote seems okay although the style is highly faked and often, well-faked.
The second (black) one is fake.
ETA: Oops. I didn't see @whateve's reply.
If by "character names" you mean style names, don't EVER use style names as a basis to authenticate! Coach re-uses manes multiple times, just search for "Coach madison" and see how many different styles come up. The ONLY valid way to identify and compare Coaches, and this is asuming that they're genuine, is by the style numbers. Names don't mean anything, and many sellers don't even know the correct names of what they're selling anyway.
In official Coach-speak, the term "character purse" doesn't even exist AFAIK. Al least I've never seen it anywhere including here at tPF.
Re the reference to "character," I wonder if @suz4sure was trying to list and item and saw "character" as one of the item specifics that Ebay puts in for sellers to choose to add to their listings.
This is from the listing page. Why 872,000 people search for those characters is beyond me! (I suppose for the Disney collection, a seller could add "Mickey Mouse" or for the Nasa line, maybe "astronaut."
But this is ebay nonsense, not the manufacturers.
Exactly. Sellers at the Ebay Fashion Board have been VERY vocal about their frustration at being forced by Ebay's wacko listing requirements to try and select and include a category that has no connection whatsoever with the item they're selling. Coach style names, unless they actually include the name of a cartoon or artistic character or creator, like Bambi or Basquiat, aren't considered or defined as "characters".
Styles, or maybe lines if someone's talking about a group of bags with similar design features or connected by a common "family" name, But that's it. There's no need to make things any more confusing than they already are. (And you'd hope that someone selling a Batman item, for instance, would have enough sense to include the character name in the listing without having to scroll through a long list to try and find it!)
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EDIT: I was able to make out the white inner tags code. Thanks anyway everyone!
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Hi y’all! I’m a bit confused about the name or ID or color of this bag. Originally thought maybe an 80s City bag but not sure now. She has a “made in NYC“ label but the measurements seem a bit off. She’s just out of her bath and drying. Any guesses? Thank you!
forgot to mention...no back outside pocket!
forgot to mention...no back outside pocket!
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It's not a city bag. It looks like a convertible clutch. The most distinctive thing about this style, to me, is the way the corners are gusseted so it can expand. You didn't show any pictures of the sides or the bottom that would show this.
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THANK YOU, Whatev! Yes, that’s gotta be it....posted side view ...sorry, forgot before! Now to get her conditioned and that brass cleaned up!
And you guys are just amazing!
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Whateve called it, it's a Convertible Clutch made before 1988. Here's a photo of the base of that style showing one of the two corner seams and the center seam.
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