Hahaha. Store credit definitely feels like "found" money but of course it only is so in H Math!
@xincinsin this is nothing if not utterly charming and the colors are the perfect match of form and content. Thanks for showing the artist rendering and the real carriage from the exhibition. These child-sized versions of adult objects just twangs my miniaturist's heartstrings...(I also love the delicate glass rings by @bunnycat)SOTD is Les Jouets Mobiles, a scarf that I've seen before occasionally in the bay but which was never high in my priority list. Earlier this year, while looking through the theme list, I was reminded of it. @turfnsurf had identified one of the Couvee eggs as based on motifs from this scarf. I did a cursory search for it and found one in baby blue and pink at a sweet price. BIN'd it in a "Why Not? If not now, when?" mood.
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Wore it with a @bunnycat glass scarf ring in streaky blue. Here's the Couvee egg, which merges two of the motifs.
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The child-size goat-drawn carriage is in the Hermes collection. And either Caty Latham used artistic licence or there is more than one goat-drawn carriage, because a different model was shown at an Hermes exhibition in my neck of woods.
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Hermes brings rare treasures from its archives to Singapore, including its very first scarf
Hermes Heritage – In Motion will take you through the ages, providing a glimpse into its journey from harness-maker and saddler into the present-day.cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com
This is great @Redbirdhermes-- perfect for the holiday weekend! I have used your strategy too and in fact, three of my four recent "lucky finds" are from TRR stalking. I think this board is keeping them in business!
Oh, @scarf1, once again we are sisters on all three-- the very ones I bought online during the Pandemic as well. I wandered out of my blues and into pinks and greens but your three beauties makes me want the blue ones, too! The blue Zambeze is particularly gorgeous and I love it peeking out of your cardi like that.
Kismet! It is a great design @Pirula-- trading one for a Bal des Oiseaux and then finding another in your preferred cw is the best kind of H multiplier effect...Not to mention your TRR credit which will pay for your round trip boat ticket off the Island...One last FOMO and some H math. I used to have the Anthracite Beloved India, but it didn’t love me so I traded with @thegriswolds for her black Bal des Oiseaux. We’re both happier.
But, having lived in India I can’t not have a Beloved India. So for three years I watched as pink and orange cws (the ones that most remind me of the colors of India) came and went. Usually for crazy prices or I just missed them at a decent price. So yesterday, just as I put myself on permanent ban, it shows up on TRR for just below retail. Are you kidding me. So fast boat off Ban Island and returned straight after. And I figure, since I’m returning something else I ordered from TRR then really I got $125 off the scarf. N’est pas?
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Twin! @laurenad I love this NBAD and reach for it whenever I need a warmer option. Perfect size and the design looks a bit like toile from a distance (always a good thing, in my book). I am so glad you got it-- it looks wonderful on you. (I remember that purple Paddock-- beautiful on you!)
This is just gossamer beautiful-- colors, everything @bunnycat!Since we have been on the subject of "sales goggles" this week. This is a scarf I had been watching for awhile, but had resolved not to buy, but could not pass up a deal.... Paridaiza GM mousseline joins my 90cm silk in the Bunny Scarf Corral.
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Congrats on it!
It’s such a wonderful cw and you wear it beautifully.
The thing about layaway though is I get impatient and pay it off early. I wasn’t supposed to see this one until August! But I love it and I’m wearing it tonight
