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Read enough posts and you pick up on a few , subtleties !
Edited to add, you ladies do realize you make for great reading, don’t you??
Thank you for finding that. Although it doesn't describe the lining, the measurements are pretty close. (The closest with ticking striped lining is 4" high.)
Unless someone posts otherwise, I'll assume that's the correct style.
OMG.
Where did you get that? And how long ago? Please post the URL of the selling page, and with some luck we may be able to help you get your money back. And for heaven's sake, now that you're a tPF member, DO NOT buy any "Coach" online without authenticating it here first! Use the Authenticate This Coach link in the Coach Shopping forum for future authentications.
We have an Id This Coach thread but that's not going to help you. If you just bought it, get your money back because it's a REALLY bad fake. NOTHING on that bag is right from the fabric to the lining to the hardware. Was it bought from a Chinese website?
AsI said in my first post, "It's a REALLY bad fake.". In most countries it's against the law to sell or trade it, and in some countres like France even bringing it into the country is illegal, and people bringing in fakes as personal items can be arrested. Anyone familiar with Coach products would know right away that it wasn't made by Coach. Coach NEVER made a fabric pattern like that. Every single detail on the bag is wrong. It's what in the US we would call a "Canal Street Special" after the infamous counterfeits market on Canal Street in New York City's Chinatown.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
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Or a Maxwell Street Chicago Special! This article is old (from 2010) so hopefully the practice has been stopped, but it is about Coach suing the City of Chicago because more than 300 vendors were selling "counterfeit Coach products in plain view" at the Maxwell Street Market!
https://www.theepochtimes.com/coach-sues-chicago-over-counterfeit-bags_1512728.html
I remember the "old" Maxwell Street, it was a regular stop for the guys in our high school crowd to shop for bargains on Sunday mornings. "Gotta get there early to get the best prices!". Girlfriends were usually strongly discouraged from going along by horror stories of young girls being abducted and sold into who knows what sordid lifestyle or profession.
The guys always came home with bags of cheap underwear and ties, record albums and leather goods and reeking of freshly-grilled Polish sausage. It's just a memory now, thanks to rising property values, gentrification, and the U of I Chicago Circle campus.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Street
I'm not even sure where the "new" one is, "West Side Desplaines" isn't an actual location, just an area (although the Wiki article clarifies that a bit). The new market isn't nearly as established or blatant as Canal Street or Santee Alley though, so I guess some effort's been made to clean it out a bit. The Mayors Daley never appreciated that kind of entrepreneurship.
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I remember the "old" Maxwell Street, it was a regular stop for the guys in our high school crowd to shop for bargains on Sunday mornings. "Gotta get there early to get the best prices!". Girlfriends were usually strongly discouraged from going along by horror stories of young girls being abducted and sold into who knows what sordid lifestyle or profession.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Street
I'm not even sure where the "new" one is, "West Side Desplaines" isn't an actual location, just an area (although the Wiki article clarifies that a bit). The new market isn't nearly as established or blatant as Canal Street or Santee Alley though, so I guess some effort's been made to clean it out a bit. The Mayors Daley never appreciated that kind of entrepreneurship.
Thanks! I remember going to Maxwell Street when I was young with my Mom and Dad a few times and there was one trip in particular that sticks in my memory. I needed a new winter coat and Robert Hall had failed to produce anything of interest! After shopping I went with my Mom and my Dad and my sister into a "restaurant" on Maxwell Street and we ordered sandwiches (we were brave souls to eat anywhere on that street!). This trip sticks in my mind because the food was delivered to our tables by overhead baskets operated on a drive chain or pulley system - I'm not sure. The food was not memorable but I liked the delivery system. Oh well, we survived and I got a new coat! I remember my Mom saying "this coat has good heavy wool" but I don't think it had much style!
Here's an article about old Maxwell Street in Chicago:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-maxwell-street-flashback-per-0831-20140830-story.html
Interesting article - thanks! And lucky you to have parents who would take you to cool places like that. I could never even get mine to take me to Riverview. Robert Hall, yes. Riverview, no.
Interesting article - thanks! And lucky you to have parents who would take you to cool places like that. I could never even get mine to take me to Riverview. Robert Hall, yes. Riverview, no.
I never got to Riverview either! My husband went there with his family and my older sisters went with my parents but they never took me, and then it closed; I wish I had the chance to go!
Hi, all! I have a mystery bag I’m thinking of adding to my collection. Any idea what this might be? Size is stated as 9 x 5 x 10 but it looks larger to me. TIA!
Chelsea Dowel in Buffalo maybe?
Chelsea Dowel in Buffalo maybe?
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