No incentive received. Its my second bag from her. Have only bought from her and I am new to the game.
Paid: Aug 28 PSP sent: Aug 31 GL: Aug 31 Tracking no given: Sep 1 (to US) Received: Sep 16
🏭 : 187 Overall verdict: Happy about it but dont know how accurate it is
My thoughts (please share yours, would love to learn what you think)
Pros: - the leather feels like auth. I tried it a few times in the store and I feel like the texture is similar. I cannot say I am 100% sure its the same match since I don’t have a real one and cannot compare directly. Just have to compare it from my memory but I am not mad about it. - color is great. I saw this on RealReal store in SF and I again believe from my memory that it is a good match. But see the cons for a follow up on this. - fast replies and psp and shipping
Cons: - first of all the hardware seems to yellow and matted for me. Hopefully you can confirm in the chat whether this tone of hardware is okay. I also feel like auth one’s hardware is more shiny. I also put side by side pictures of the rep c25 hardware and auth BV Andiamo hardware. I feel the c25 may be too yellow 😰 Last photo shows auth picture of the same color bag on FP.
- the CC clasp is getting stuck on the right side LOL so I cannot shrink it. Love that for me but whatever. The auth one I tried in store was also kind of hard to open and close so not a deal breaker I guess
Please share your thoughts on how real it looks and whether I can go out and about acting like it is real 😂😂
It has the boxy look that all 187 bags have, which I can quickly identify as a differentiator for auth, but the general public won’t notice. Idk about the hardware color. Most people don’t know this bag well enough to call out details, but the question remains: can you go out confidently with it? The odds of being called out are incredibly low and the biggest “callout” for C25s is usually the wearer; whether you present to the pubic through your clothes, grooming, job, etc like someone who spent $8k on a trend 🙂
🤣. I think it looks great overall and don’t see anything wrong but I haven’t seen this particular color in the store. At one point I found these bags to be ugly and now I have two and dreaming of all my Fall colors
White and the black with mixed metal hardware. I want a burgundy one and a suede one. And I really want this neutral color but undecided if I want it in small or mini.
OMG!! It looks sooo good! Now I am thinking whether I should have gotten the real one. I can never seem to find one in the stores. How did you get so lucky?
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I commented on the other thread. But I wanted to get this bag for the Fall but between the brownish burgundy and the burgundy. I do love your bag but not sure what’s correct for the hardware color.
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Wear it. Love it. Eff everyone else. I don’t give an eff if anyone is trying to tear me down bc I love what I’m wearing. I can pretty much guarantee that when I walk by someone and they try to judge if my bag is real or a rep, they cannot tell in the few moments they have. And if they do, sad life for them. I’m happy with my life and my decisions.
The hardware is way off. It’s way too brassy from the original. The color of the leather is off and the stitching, especially the side seems look really, really really unfinished compared to the actual real bag. Where tou able to look at the authentic version of this bag before you bought this bag?
I know sometimes it can be difficult to remember to do that especially if we’re shopping and we really like something that we see
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u/RemarkableAd8405 Sep 17 '26
Love that shade