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its beautiful! I've seen a few come up for sale and always wondered about this bag.
Just ordered some cotton webbing on eBay. Will fiddle around a bit & if necessary get help from our great local cobblers.
when the fella uses a small knife to take the bag apart and then you see that he’s really just nipping through the stitching ….
There is always a risk when one takes an item outside of the brand’s own repair options, though of course sometimes it turns out very well and perhaps with some items there is no other option available. I find that my experience with repair quality has varied from very good to fair when done through Hermes and from excellent to catastrophic when done through another provider (because the outside provider will take bigger chances, I suppose, and we know that Hermes will err on the side of doing less if they are not sure of the results - though I believe you did have a poor outcome with a scarf once). The difference is in further restoration options and in residual value left in the bag when the repair does not turn out as well. I have no experience with using Rago Brothers for Hermes bags, but a word of caution for those reading this thread. We used to send all of our branded shoes for resoling on a frequent basis (rainy climate) by bringing them to the boutique, who then sent them on to Rago Brothers, and the repair work was always excellent, like a new pair of shoes. However, the cost was over $100 per pair and the turnaround time was quite long (this is pre-pandemic delays). My husband thought we could try sending our shoes directly to Rago Brothers instead. We shipped an assortment of Chanel, Hermes, Prada, Gucci and Ferragamo shoes, and they came back quickly and at almost half the cost, but the shoes were all destroyed. Instead of discrete polishing, mending, neat new zip soles, the shoes came back with thick and uneven workman-type soles across the entire bottom (though thin half-zip soles were specified) and the rubber extended over the top of the upper leather portion with thick and uneven paint all over the toes (on beautiful lambskin booties etc). So I would hesitate to send a Hermes bag to them! Perhaps they may have a different standard for boutique repairs and for higher value items, but if a boutique sent out an item for repairs and it was destroyed generally they would stand behind their product and offer some resolution. Apologies if this is way off-topic, but just a caveat when deciding where to send your vintage Hermes for repair.So curious as to why the owner wouldn't want to use Hermès for that restoration. If I were restoring a B I would also use the same resin and thread that H uses. But each to their own
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