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Originally Posted by SOPi_Jawbreaker
My way to telling if it's a fake is by looking at the quality of the leather and the quality of the hardware. A real designer bag will tend to have softer, smoother leather. A fake will have rougher, poorer-quality leather. A real designer bag will have heavier, sturdier metal hardware. A fake will have lighter, flimsier hardware. Also, with a real bag, if you touch the hardware, it'll be cold metal to the touch...or if the bag's been out in sun, it'll be hot metal to the touch. The hardware on a fake will feel about room temperature.
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You aint never LIED! i decided that i really wanted a Carly Coach bag:
but at $400, it wasnt happening. So... off to Canal Street i go, led up and down dark alleyways, behind walls and between floors to what i thought was a pretty good knockoff for a tenth of the price. Sweet!
A few weeks later, I'm happy-go-lucky walking down 5th Ave with my "Coach" and decide to actually go into the Coach store. Imagine my total embarrassment in mentally comparing my bag to the real deal.
Ooh i wish i had pics for yall, but everything SOPi said above is true. the leather was rough and stained weirdly in the rain, the hardware was flimsy as all hayle (one of the studs at the bottom poked through the bag and would always jab my fingers if i dug deep enough, and the zipper pull broke right off!) and generally, in comparison was an obvious knockoff. i hightailed it out of that store so fast and threw the bag away a few days later.
so yeah, no more knockoffs for me, just no-names of whatever looks cute. and like someone mentioned earlier, the most compliments ive gotten on my handbags tend to be ones that were cheap and from some random store.
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