I think that might be in response to how some find that if you have to cut out coffee and haircuts to buy an Hermes bag, maybe one is overextending themselves.
Not my opinion but I’ve read it here before.
What’s your unpopular Hermes opinion?
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Not my opinion but I’ve read it here before.
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my unpopular opinion is Hermes should not be charging thousands for virgin wool rtw. Cashmere should be the least they could do
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Speaking of charging thousands, I wish their equestrian themed blankets were not all over 5k. Would love to see some classic Scottish wool ones at their “entry” level prices. And not the cheesy designs with horses and weird wheels and polka dots. Please. I can’t bring myself to $5500 love the cheval talaria but I can at half the price point.
Griping is fun (not an unpopular opinion, I hope) and this seems to be the only place on the entire toxically positive web that I can do so!
Yup. And if they charge a ton, then the wool should be as good as Loro Piana Gift of Kings, though not sure H can pry some out of LP
Unpopular opinion: their cashmere would be worth it, , , if only it didn’t pill after a season of wear.
Unpopular opinion: I used to love the neutral colorways of classic scarf designs, ex libris, bride de gala, astrologie, but on a scarf, not blown up on an oversized twillane that looks like a bathrobe on a shortie, no matter the size. Though since my ex libris twillane fits like a bathrobe, maybe I should repurpose it to be an ultra lux one. At least it would get some wear
… and not just pill, but badly. I saw a display shawl that looked like a dust rag. I’m careful with designs I adore but have slowed down considerably with my purchases in this area.
Memo to Hermes: as a matter of luxury shopping, I really don’t want to do a deep dive into the details of your CSGM production, that’s your job. Just sell me a quality product that will still look good (not like a dust rag) after a few years of reasonably careful wear. And don’t try to gaslight me by asserting that it’s the same quality product you’ve always made. Because it’s not. (And I know that cashmere will not be pill-free, but c’mon!)
Sorry for the rant…
Several years ago I was on vacation in Greece. While in Athens, I took a walk. My husband wandered into the Hermes store next to our hotel to kill time for a few minutes. He called me. Did I want to buy a Kelly bag in etoupe Togo? (I think the last time I had bought something from an Hermes store was 1990!) Not really interested, but I walked over to the store to check it out. Nope. Too stiff. Too formal. Too old fashioned looking.
My old Art des Steppes, Pavement, Grands Fonds, Lalbhai and others of the same vintage CSGMs have NEVER pilled and NEVER get runs! So sad to see my Cosmographia and Acte II pill so badly in spite of my babying them. And to see how Voyages en Etoffes catches runs at the merest contact, CSGMs of that period are the worst for runs (count La Femme aux Semelles there too). And for that we are paying ever higher prices? Hermes clearly knew how to do it right at some point, so how can we excuse such a drop in quality? Thoroughly fed up.… and not just pill, but badly. I saw a display shawl that looked like a dust rag. I’m careful with designs I adore but have slowed down considerably with my purchases in this area.
Memo to Hermes: as a matter of luxury shopping, I really don’t want to do a deep dive into the details of your CSGM production, that’s your job. Just sell me a quality product that will still look good (not like a dust rag) after a few years of reasonably careful wear. And don’t try to gaslight me by asserting that it’s the same quality product you’ve always made. Because it’s not. (And I know that cashmere will not be pill-free, but c’mon!)
Sorry for the rant…
Here's a quote from an excellent NYT article published last summer entitled "To Some, Your Pristine Hermès Bag Looks Tacky". If you have a NYT subscription it's well worth reading. You can usually get a few free articles per month.
Here's a quote from the article:
"W. David Marx, the author of the book “Status and Culture,” said that for luxury goods to function as status symbols, they need cachet, an association with high-status lifestyles and to be used in a way that is not only to mark status.
Someone carrying a beat-up Hermès bag suggests that they are not simply wearing it because of its label, according to Mr. Marx. It can give the impression, he wrote in an email, that “I don’t even care if it gets beat up, because I’m not using this for status marking.”
“It’s just a bag,” he wrote. “Who cares if it’s beat up?”"
I agree. Though I don't intentionally beat it up, I love for my bag to look like it's actually traveling with me through life.
There is certainly nothing wrong with perfect bags! It's definitely a personal choice, but perfectly pristine H bags always look a bit odd to me.
Here's a quote from the article:
"W. David Marx, the author of the book “Status and Culture,” said that for luxury goods to function as status symbols, they need cachet, an association with high-status lifestyles and to be used in a way that is not only to mark status.
Someone carrying a beat-up Hermès bag suggests that they are not simply wearing it because of its label, according to Mr. Marx. It can give the impression, he wrote in an email, that “I don’t even care if it gets beat up, because I’m not using this for status marking.”
“It’s just a bag,” he wrote. “Who cares if it’s beat up?”"
I agree. Though I don't intentionally beat it up, I love for my bag to look like it's actually traveling with me through life.
There is certainly nothing wrong with perfect bags! It's definitely a personal choice, but perfectly pristine H bags always look a bit odd to me.
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UO: old beat up bags exudes style. I love seeing a well loved bag in the wild especially a slouchy B40! Some H bags takes years to wear down sometimes. Some leathers just don’t want to patina!
To me, H bags just get more beautiful with time.
Perhaps the seduction of Hermes is waning for many of us & we are now beginning to fully
appreciate the pieces that we own & covet..
appreciate the pieces that we own & covet..