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As requested, this thread is now the official Help I.D. Hermes leather, color and design thread. Cheers!



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Hi everyone!! was browsing a pre-loved site and came across this guy - was listed as "natural box calf leather" but i've never seen a heat stamp like this?

any help/insight appreciated!! <3
 

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woobao said:
ah thank you!! and the brown heat stamps are usually found on the chamonix leather?
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Yes, I believe so. I don't know about other colours but I think (not sure!) that the colour there is called natural which has the brown heat stamp. Hopefully someone else can confirm, I'm no expert! Chamonix is a less shiny version of box I think, which would explain the description by the seller.
 
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Does anyone know what color this Garden Party is? I love stillintribeca's style! so sophisticated, timeless and elegant! and I love how she's styles the GP! And I believe she works for H which is so chic!!

I am thinking its an Etoupe or Etain? Anyone know? It looks like a 36 to me -- but would love an experts eye!

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kttREX said:
Does anyone know what color this Garden Party is? I love stillintribeca's style! so sophisticated, timeless and elegant! and I love how she's styles the GP! And I believe she works for H which is so chic!!

I am thinking its an Etoupe or Etain? Anyone know? It looks like a 36 to me -- but would love an experts eye!

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The white stitching means Etoupe or Gold. The lighting/filters are weird in that pic so I’d believe either one but if I had to wager I’d say etoupe.
 
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Hi guys,

I'm not super knowledgeable on Hermes so was hoping to pick some people's brains.

I saw a friend's Hermes Kelly 32 which was either in Rouge H or Burgundy or something similar and really liked the colour so I was looking online at some bags. However I noticed her stitching wasn't quite the same colour as the leather, it was slightly different. Is that normal? I have a Kelly 25 in gold epsom and the stitching is in white which I know is called contrast stitching. But her stitching was not white.

It's very similar to these bags (pictured). Is this type of (slightly...) different stitching colour normal? I always thought Hermes bag leather and stitch is supposed to match each other perfectly unless it is deliberately contrasted. Is it just the angle/lighting? Am I imaging things?

Thanks!

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Not all leather colors have one-for-one thread colors but they have a specific color that is “standard”; 5P Pink comes standard with a burgundy shade thread, blue Brume has a more white-ish blue thread, raisin had/has a slight different tint thread etc. I’m not an expert on Hermes reds so I can’t say much about this specific example but it’s likely that this specific color is just assigned a slightly different red thread by “definition”
 
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fonnas said:
Hey everyone. can you help me identify what blue color this citizen twill card holder is please? Im not an expert with H blue color. Thanks View attachment 5446542
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Does it have this silk design inside? If so, I am confident it’s the same one I purchased direct from the boutique and is Bleu Indigo.
 

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spiderlily89 said:
Hi guys,

I'm not super knowledgeable on Hermes so was hoping to pick some people's brains.

I saw a friend's Hermes Kelly 32 which was either in Rouge H or Burgundy or something similar and really liked the colour so I was looking online at some bags. However I noticed her stitching wasn't quite the same colour as the leather, it was slightly different. Is that normal? I have a Kelly 25 in gold epsom and the stitching is in white which I know is called contrast stitching. But her stitching was not white.

It's very similar to these bags (pictured). Is this type of (slightly...) different stitching colour normal? I always thought Hermes bag leather and stitch is supposed to match each other perfectly unless it is deliberately contrasted. Is it just the angle/lighting? Am I imaging things?

Thanks!

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This is Rouge H with Acajou (mahogany/rosewood) stitching. Acajou is the standard stitch for Rouge H, or at least was until quite recently (I have a 1980 Kelly and had a 2010s Kelly, both production bags, both Rouge H with Acajou stitching). It does happen that there is a "standard" stitch for a color that is very slightly off the exact tone - sometimes there isn't an exact equivalent thread available (not every H leather color has a thread equivalent, although Fil au Chinois, the thread supplier, does produce specific colors just for Hermès......or maybe H just likes how it looks :smile:).

Somewhere in all the special order paperwork there is a list of leather colors plus the thread color considered standard. For instance, Raisin's "matching" stitches are Raisin and Acajou (and if you look at the earliest Raisin production bags, the stitching is Acajou and is quite contrasty). Most colors have only one thread color that is considered "ton sur ton" and, again, it's not always the exact same color. What I was told is that these threads won't get your SO choices kicked back - they will automatically be approved by Paris, and if you select tonal stitching, you will get the color from this list. ETA: I've only seen this list a couple times and literally when leafing through sheafs of things, so I don't think it's actually normally shown to clients. I'm just nosy and have a good memory :p
 
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