Welcome! I used to live in Lexington, so when you really want to drool, take a trip to the FP Coach store at Columbiana! The Dillards there also has Coach.
ohh thank you for the tip, i didn't even know there was a full price store there.
thank you everyone for the welcome, i've been a member of several forums through the years and i love ones that stay active with TRUE addicts of whatever my current obsession is ! i don't know why i had not thought of looking for a purse-addicts forum before
i can sometimes be rambly in my posts...but, more of my back story on how i ended up at the purse forum:
several weeks ago my boss came to a meeting with a new 'coach' bag. everyone was oohing and aahhing about it. i like my boss, and i'm certainly not a snooty person...but i thought it was really ugly and not something to be raving over. i figured everyone else in the room was kissing her @ss. my boss has been my boss for close to 19 years, so i can talk frankly to her. since i truly have known NOTHING about 'real' designer bags (i truly thought i was high ended enough with a liz claiborne or a nine west...yes now i know!...but i still LOVE the bags i have!) i asked my boss after the meeting what was so special about her bag. she explained that everyone thought it was a real coach, but she had ordered it online and it is a fake coach but she was not going to pay 200+ for a bag.
so i'm like...'but, it's kinda ugly...why even get a fake one just because it's less'. so she told me a little more about how everyone LOVES a coach bag. i guess my circle of friends have totally been in the dark, or just figured coach bags were unattainable.
i make trips to my outlet malls every couple of weeks (clothing and mac makeup shopaholic), so i finally went into the coach outlet (concord mills NC).....they handed me a 20%coupon but i didn't know what i was looking for, or what is a good price. now i so wish i had known what i wanted that day...but i'll get there. anyway after i looked at a few real ones, it's pretty obvious that my boss' bag is fakety faket fakest.
so a couple of weeks go by, and i see my boss carrying her Fauch, and the pleather straps are PEELING and stringy. i started picking off the loose strings and told her if she wanted someone to believe it's real that even i know there wouldn't be stringys peeling away from the straps. she's about to order another fake from online, and i explained to her my new found obsession with finally getting myself at least ONE real one. she insisted that hers looks like a real and 'everyone' has complimented her on it and believes it's real.
well....i'm snapping a pic of it to show y'all next week, i told her the experts here would know her fakeness a mile away.
i am entering into rambling length with my post now, but i just needed to share my path to my interest in coach bags. as with all things, i like some of the patterns and some are ugh. for all the years that i've had cute but low end bags, i've never wanted nor had a fake designer purse. i know they are everywhere, but i just always felt like if i have a fake that's supposed to be an expensive designer bag i'll be in situations just like my boss where everyone is grabbing your bag and asking how much it cost and if it's real and where you got it. i really like to take care of my things and keep them a while too, so i don't want a fall apart fake bag.
and just to be sure she doesnt read here and fire me
, i'm not bashing anyone for owning a fake...it's just not for me
