Hello everyone. This is my first post in this subforum. I've been searching for a PS1 bag for a few months and have encountered a challenge unique to this search. It seems many sellers have no clue what size PS1 they're selling. Being inexperienced, I have no clue either, but I often feel their description can't be right.
The challenge is telling apart the Medium from the Large from the Extra Large, for these 2 reasons that I've noticed:
1. The PS1 is for whatever reason extremely hard to measure. While measurements should be objective, there appears to be vast subjectivity in how PS1s are measured; with the bag flattened, filled to the brim, the folds stretched taut, etc. It's rare to find people list the same measurements on the same size bag. The variations are big enough to straddle the official posted measurements of two different sizes.
2. There aren't easy tell-tale signs to help inexperienced buyers distinguish one bag size from another based only on photos. All three bag sizes look identical, except for their dimensions.
I have a big collection of Balenciaga bags that are similarly slouchy and unstructured, but I've always been able to tell the sizes and models apart. There's no controversy on how to measure Balenciaga bags. What I'm noticing with PS1s is people misidentifying sizes, and their posted measurements really don't help.
One thing I've noticed is that the Extra Large exterior back pocket does not have a zipper. At least I think that's a distinguishing feature of the Extra Large. I've lost count of how many of these bags I've seen described as Large. Maybe they're right and both the Large and Extra Large come with and without the back pocket zipper depending on the year. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know.
I've come here in the hopes of getting some pointers on specific, objective ways to tell PS1 sizes apart, short of kinda eyeballing the sizes in the photos and relying on wildly subjective measurements. Are there stitching or hardware differences between these three sizes? Am I right that only the Extra Large has the open back pocket? Are there any other such clear marks that distinguish the Medium from the Large from the Extra Large? Please help a newbie out.
Meanwhile, on the strength of my educated guess about the Extra Large back pocket, I just purchased this bag that was listed as a size Large. https://www.ebay.com/itm/362656746228 Please tell me I did good!
The challenge is telling apart the Medium from the Large from the Extra Large, for these 2 reasons that I've noticed:
1. The PS1 is for whatever reason extremely hard to measure. While measurements should be objective, there appears to be vast subjectivity in how PS1s are measured; with the bag flattened, filled to the brim, the folds stretched taut, etc. It's rare to find people list the same measurements on the same size bag. The variations are big enough to straddle the official posted measurements of two different sizes.
2. There aren't easy tell-tale signs to help inexperienced buyers distinguish one bag size from another based only on photos. All three bag sizes look identical, except for their dimensions.
I have a big collection of Balenciaga bags that are similarly slouchy and unstructured, but I've always been able to tell the sizes and models apart. There's no controversy on how to measure Balenciaga bags. What I'm noticing with PS1s is people misidentifying sizes, and their posted measurements really don't help.
One thing I've noticed is that the Extra Large exterior back pocket does not have a zipper. At least I think that's a distinguishing feature of the Extra Large. I've lost count of how many of these bags I've seen described as Large. Maybe they're right and both the Large and Extra Large come with and without the back pocket zipper depending on the year. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know.
I've come here in the hopes of getting some pointers on specific, objective ways to tell PS1 sizes apart, short of kinda eyeballing the sizes in the photos and relying on wildly subjective measurements. Are there stitching or hardware differences between these three sizes? Am I right that only the Extra Large has the open back pocket? Are there any other such clear marks that distinguish the Medium from the Large from the Extra Large? Please help a newbie out.
Meanwhile, on the strength of my educated guess about the Extra Large back pocket, I just purchased this bag that was listed as a size Large. https://www.ebay.com/itm/362656746228 Please tell me I did good!
In the last picture you can see the ring, altough it's a bit small. But there should have been a second strap with hooks, like the usual strap all other PS1 bags come with. The strap the bag in the listing comes with is the second strap that the XL bag has, it is a bit different, as you can see, it does't have hooks, instead it has buttons.
