Hey all,
I recently made the plunge into Balenciaga for real. I had once bought a mini city in Vert Jade but sold it because the leather was super papery and later on I also bought a papier mini in Bleu Lavande but also returned it because it was very, very small and the shoulder strap seemed thin (and therefore would destroy my shoulder).
Fast forward to now, I have been searching for the perfect pink bag for a very, very long time. Pinks tend to either be too nude or too fuschia to me. I played with the idea of pale magenta but decided that too would be too purple. Enter 2010 sorbet.
Sorbet is really the perfect middle ground between the super light bubblegum (beautiful but easy to ruin) and the very purple toned amethyst/pale magenta family. Sorbet is what I think of when I think of a bubblegum wrapper.
I bought the bag second hand from a lovely lady on ebay (at the time this was the oldest bag I have ever bought, my previous oldest was a Proenza from 2012). The bag had some minor issues, some rusting on a zipper, a small tear. I talked about those issues in this thread http://forum.purseblog.com/balencia...zippers-and-what-to-do-about-them-879093.html if you want to see "before" photos. After fixing up the tear (and any loose piping) with Aleene's fabric fusion, polishing away the tarnish on the zipper with a jewelers cloth, treating the whole bag with leather honey (she was pretty dried out), and protecting the corners with a satin finish she's ready to go! Still undecided if I should also spray with collonil, I've heard leather honey + water protectant leads to stickiness.
Here she is, very saturated and smooshy. I've heard some sorbets suffer from fading, but this bag seems to not have that issue.
I recently made the plunge into Balenciaga for real. I had once bought a mini city in Vert Jade but sold it because the leather was super papery and later on I also bought a papier mini in Bleu Lavande but also returned it because it was very, very small and the shoulder strap seemed thin (and therefore would destroy my shoulder).
Fast forward to now, I have been searching for the perfect pink bag for a very, very long time. Pinks tend to either be too nude or too fuschia to me. I played with the idea of pale magenta but decided that too would be too purple. Enter 2010 sorbet.
Sorbet is really the perfect middle ground between the super light bubblegum (beautiful but easy to ruin) and the very purple toned amethyst/pale magenta family. Sorbet is what I think of when I think of a bubblegum wrapper.
I bought the bag second hand from a lovely lady on ebay (at the time this was the oldest bag I have ever bought, my previous oldest was a Proenza from 2012). The bag had some minor issues, some rusting on a zipper, a small tear. I talked about those issues in this thread http://forum.purseblog.com/balencia...zippers-and-what-to-do-about-them-879093.html if you want to see "before" photos. After fixing up the tear (and any loose piping) with Aleene's fabric fusion, polishing away the tarnish on the zipper with a jewelers cloth, treating the whole bag with leather honey (she was pretty dried out), and protecting the corners with a satin finish she's ready to go! Still undecided if I should also spray with collonil, I've heard leather honey + water protectant leads to stickiness.
Here she is, very saturated and smooshy. I've heard some sorbets suffer from fading, but this bag seems to not have that issue.
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