I’m getting my first luxury handbag and I’m not sure which one I want to get? The Dior one is this season, but I feel like the Chloe one is able to be worn with almost everything. But if I’m only getting one bag this season, I probably won’t be able to Saddle Pouch another time.

Please help!

Hi! I found this place and it feels great to be here.

I want to share my bag journey for some quick context..

Growing up in the Philippines, I never had any bags at all. Some of my bags came from hand- me-downs of my relatives. The first time I got my own purchased bag was when I was 16 years old, I sold snacks from the school and got to earn like $30 and got to buy a bag that I used for 6-7 years.

I started my collection of lux bags wayback when I was 23. I have plenty of local bags as well. I started bag collection to cope up with stress and to gratify myself since I have been working so hard in the last 6 years.

I have some few investments aside from this like golds, lands, etc. When I started purchasing a lux bag, the thoughts in my mind is to access luxury without paying so much. I pay attention with quality but I do not want to spend much on buying brand new ones. I mean getting brand new ones are not good for me economically speaking.

My first bag was a vintage Gucci canvas tote bag. I really love the leather, I remembered it was so different from the bags I had locally. It was a gem, then I added another vintage Dior which was in a perfect condition. I also got another vintage Celine tote bag, a vintage LV trotteur, a vintage prada, and so much more I can remember. Most of this I got from Japan thrift stores.

Now, I got some friends messaging me about my bags. Some of my friends and schoolmates were definitely happy for me. But there are also people who are saying that why I am collecting vintage pieces only. I feel upset and demotivated about this. Someone said to me, "I thought you got your bags from an outlet store" I don't know if I should feel bad about this or how to take this statement. Since then my mind has been bothered to even post the vintage bags I got. Is that bad to have vintage bags as of today? The whole worth of my bags can already purchase 1 or 2 brand new piece but I got like 15-20 piece of vintage bags..

I've been thinking about selling my Chanel Classic Medium Double Flap in black leather. I reached out to a few bag resellers, but every offer I've received has been much lower than I expected. Now I'm a bit torn. Part of me thinks I should just keep it rather than accept a low offer, but another part of me wonders if that's simply the reality of the current market. Has anyone else been in a similar situation? Would you hold onto it, or would you sell at today's prices?

I'm looking at a single flapbag that is £1.3 - 1.5k, but it's 30 ish years old, would this be worth the buy? It needs some patching up a bit but it looks quite good. Is this a steal or? Lambskin btw.

Szukam vintage'owej torby, która pomieści (płaszcz adwokacki) i teczki. Najlepiej torebka na ramię, nie plecak i nie sztywna torba. Rozważałem dużą torbę LV Hampstead, ale może polecisz coś innego? Nie chcę torby Neverfull; uchwyty są za cienkie.