Handbag Help! No Boys Allowed!

KillarneyRose · #1 02-23-2004, 09:03 PM

Well, boys are allowed but I don't think most of them would be interested in this thread!

Ladies (especially ladies who are more "with it" fashionwise than I am), I saw a handbag at Nordstrom today that I really like and am considering buying it.

http://coach.com/shop/product_nobefr...e=&easyask_id=

The only problem is that I see LOTS of knock-offs of the Coach signature handbags. All these folks wandering around carrying bags with "G"s on them instead of the "C"s. Do y'all think it's been knocked off to the point that it's too common looking?

I hate to say it, but I don't want to spend a couple hundred dollars on a bag and have people think it's a fake. Yes, I'm a snob! lol But can you help me anyway?

Steeltrap · #2 02-23-2004, 09:08 PM

But have you thought of getting a Signature in a color? They have pink and have had green in the past. The hot pink Signatures that I've seen this season are gorgeous, have a lot of suede in them, although they are more expensive.

And yes, I've seen "Goaches" out and about. But I don't think the new collection is going to be knocked off that much.

SigKapBling · #3 02-23-2004, 09:28 PM

i dont believe that the bags with the G's are fake. i think they are gucci ones... i could be wrong, but i live out here in vegas, and you always see the ones with the crazy G's all over them under gucci labels in the stores ... soooo .. but im sure that there are some knockoffs.

and i think you should get that signature coach bag ... i have a coach bag, the one that looks exactly like the one you want, but its completely black leather, no C's. i LOVE my bag. it goes everywhere and anywhere with me

its a fabulous investment!!!!

mu_agd · #4 02-23-2004, 09:31 PM

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Originally posted by SigKapBling
i dont believe that the bags with the G's are fake. i think they are gucci ones... i could be wrong, but i live out here in vegas, and you always see the ones with the crazy G's all over them under gucci labels in the stores ... soooo .. but im sure that there are some knockoffs.

the gucci ones have tiny g's. the coach knockoffs are big noticeable strange-looking g's. it is very noticeable that they are a coach knockoff.

KR, i love the bag in the link you posted, especially since it has light pink in it! my feeling is if you love it, then i wouldn't worry about if there are knockoffs out there. i have a few of the signature bags and i don't care about the knockoffs. i know mine are real!

plus coach bags are great and they will last. i think it's worth the investment.

Steeltrap · #5 02-23-2004, 09:34 PM

^^
This is an example of what I've referred to...

SigKapBling · #6 02-23-2004, 09:45 PM

oooooh those things.

i understand now, sorry ladies!!

i still think you should get the signature bag though, like mu_age said .... who cares what others think, you KNOW its real

OtterXO · #7 02-23-2004, 10:11 PM

You know something funny, those silly faux coach bags with the Gs instead of Cs are now being made by Guess in a similar pattern. Poor girls who buy them-they look like bad coach knockoffs!!!

hottytoddy · #8 02-23-2004, 10:16 PM

I HATE THOSE. I don't really care for the signature bags anyway.

First of all there are too many fake ones.

Second of all I jus think they're a little "Hey look at me I have a Coach bag"

Third of all too many people have them.

And for people who do have them...I also hate it when people overdo it with the signature anything (Coach, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Burberry) Like the purse, the scarf, the hat, the shoes. Please don't do this. Too much.

AXJules · #9 02-23-2004, 10:25 PM

Love love LOVE this new signature Coaches in neon pink w/suede. Too fucking cute.

**snob alert**
Girl I completely understand your fear of people assuming you're carrying a fake, but think of it this way....anyone who knows their stuff about designer purses will be able to tell from a mile away that yours ISN'T fake. The people that judge you are the ones who buy awful awful knockoffs out of someone's Radio Flyer wagon next to the bagel stand. Who's approval would you rather have??

SigKapBling · #10 02-23-2004, 10:32 PM

i agree 200% with you Jules!

i think every woman should own some sort of designer bag, i never thought this until i got my coach, and i love it to death .. loooove it

hottytoddy · #11 02-23-2004, 10:33 PM

Not looking for approval. I really just don't like the signature Coach stuff....never have. Call me a snob, but I just don't care for them...I have a few Coach bags, but no sig ones.

xok85xo · #12 02-23-2004, 10:40 PM

call me a snob but i don't care for most coach bags

i love burberry novacheck, but i agree - there is such a thing as overdoing it. i have the large flowerpot tote, and the flipflops, and i really want a cashmere scarf, but its too much..maybe if i get a new winter bag (at this point its too late for a new scarf anyway) but theres definately such a thing as designer overkill..

i am still drooling over the prada bags i posted in the other handbag thread..

and ditto to what jules said - anyone who has the real thing can spot a fake from a mile away..anyone who knows anything will know your bag isn't a fake, and why do you care what the people who think its fake think anyway? clearly they don't know anything

hottytoddy · #13 02-23-2004, 10:46 PM

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Originally posted by xok85xo
call me a snob but i don't care for most coach bags

i love burberry novacheck, but i agree - there is such a thing as overdoing it. i have the large flowerpot tote, and the flipflops, and i really want a cashmere scarf, but its too much..maybe if i get a new winter bag (at this point its too late for a new scarf anyway) but theres definately such a thing as designer overkill..

Yeah I am kinda over the whole Coach craze. I like some of the bags, but there are bags I like better. I am the sameway with the burberry....I have a scarf and a hat...but I would NEVER wear them together. I have a sig Dior scarf as well....but I wear it with something plain. Designer Overkill---that's the perfect description!!

mu_agd · #14 02-23-2004, 11:21 PM

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Originally posted by hottytoddy
Yeah I am kinda over the whole Coach craze. I like some of the bags, but there are bags I like better. I am the sameway with the burberry....I have a scarf and a hat...but I would NEVER wear them together. I have a sig Dior scarf as well....but I wear it with something plain. Designer Overkill---that's the perfect description!!

well the way you feel about burberry is the way i, as well as others, feel about coach. personally, i don't care for burberry but i love all of my coach items.

alikat2 · #15 02-23-2004, 11:38 PM

I'm with the others.....go for the sig if you like it. You'll know it's real.