Handbag trends I wish would go away!

[NormaLouiseBates]

I love handbags. I’m a handbag person. They bring me much joy 🥹

However…

1. Vegan leather. There’s no such thing as vegan leather. It’s plastic. Or polyurethane or whatever. But “vegan leather” makes me roll my eyes hard 🙄
2. Oversized bag charms. Especially on really beautiful bags. They look ridiculous. Unless you’re 12… in which case carry on.
3. People referring to their bags as “her” and “she”. Stop it. I love a good bag unboxing video on YouTube, it’s a guilty pleasure of mine 😂 but your bag, as beautiful as it may be, is not a female. Just stop it!

Have I missed anything?

(Yes yes I know none of these things effect me directly and live and let live and all that etc etc)

I guess in the same way that ‘leather’ sounds better than ‘animal skin’. Or for a lot of luxury ‘leather’ products we could say ‘the skin of a baby animal that has been kept in a crate so small that it cannot turn around in order to preserve the blemish free nature of its skin before it is slaughtered at a few weeks old’. How about that?

I dont like or even own a handbag.
I have a backpack.

Thank you for saying that @Wiennetta. I always hesitate when opening handbag threads as I think handbag adoration is such a pointless thing. I think we should stop and think if another leather handbag is needed in our wardrobe, or the world. I’m too cowardly to say so, hence my meek vegan leather comment above, but thank you for doing so.

Thanks to this amusing thread I've just ordered a new bag. It's pink and under £20

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Absolutely, please don't try and sell me plastic, that will not wear as well as leather, for the same price.

I tried this. One I paid for before realiesing that one of the handles was almost worn through and the other was so small it must of been for a toddler!😅

ah well, guess I will have to keep supporting the vegan leather trade (and calling it vegan leather now I know it annoys so many people!!LOL).

cough veganleather cough😏

Oh no @henlake7 what a disappointment! I've been lucky on Vinted and very pleased with my purchases. I only shop using my laptop so I can blow the photos up to scrutinise, which helps perhaps.

I don’t believe that would be legal in the Uk. A better description would be the skin of an animal which is a byproduct of the meat trade and would otherwise be discarded.

I’m not sure it’s legal to raise calves like this in the UK, but you can buy luxury calfskin products very easily. If you wouldn’t eat veal, you might want to think about whether you’d buy a calfskin leather purse.

There’s a general belief that leather is a by product of the meat industry and it would just go to waste if not used. However it’s more complicated - it’s more accurately described as a Co-product or it might be the main product. Especially when you’re talking about expensive leather.

https://www.businessoffashion.com/news/luxury/there-are-not-enough-cows-to-produce-luxury-leather/

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/aug/27/ethicalfashion.leather?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

We all knew what pleather meant before the term vegan leather was invented. Pleather isn’t a new thing! We’ve had fake leather for years and years.

Me too for 90% of the time. I do have a very nice handbag that I use when I'm at F2F work meetings but those are few and far between now.

I have a very practical ROKA rucksack that I use every day.

I hate a bag unboxing video. It's very show-offy in my opinion!

I also hate small clutch bags that you have to fight with every time you want to close them, everything has to be place in perfectly or they won't close..... yet I still buy/use one every time for special occasions 😅

Ive got a hippy looking back pack but have just ordered a roka rucksack should arrive today.

Unlined bags. No, I am not paying hundreds or thousands of pounds for an unlined handbag.

I’d go to Zara if I wanted that.

If you are including Kipling bags (with the monkey novelty tag) then I may have to stab you! Although my backpack has no monkey but my purse does!

I knew that would make an appearance here 😂😂

I hate handbag snobbery - 'oh my dear, not that make, everyone who's anyone knows it's regarded as naff'... We are not insecure teenagers in the schoolyard, to judge people by their labels.

But I do like a secure top fastening, and I wish there weren't so many of those 'rolled into a tube' shoulder straps around - I find them hard and uncomfortable and prefer an old-fashioned flat strap.

Leather Look
Leatherette
Faux Leather
Faux Suede
Suedette
all worked well for years.

And a silk scarf tied to the handle is practical - it's so handy if you need a little extra warmth or to tie your hair back, and it doesn't get mashed up and tangled in the general chaos of the bag contents...

It also personalises my logo-free bag.

I think we should stop and think I'd any purchase we make is necessary given the state of the planet but more so when it comes to plastic products. It's usually green washing calling something vegan leather when it's just as bad for the planet as animal leather.

You know, I never got the love for Louis Vuitton either but recently I was in Selfridges and walked past their boutique and the LV Bella Tote is bloody beautiful in real life, so much so that I am now saving up for one. Gorgeous bag. Fist thing I've ever liked by LV, and I can't believe I am actually seriously considering buying one

My contribution is: designers that put the same bloody print on every soddding thing, eg, Orla Keily and lulu Guinness (the one with the lip print as her design).

There was a post a while ago - I can't remember the context - where a poster remarked that a particular handbag 'just screams TKMaxx!' It's a phrase that lives in my head.

I like Twillys but don’t understand bag charms, especially the cost of them.
Id totally buy a big Kelly if it was ever in my budget. But a Birkin will always look like a Sunday school teacher bag to me.

Those bloody awful interchangeable straps on cheapo bags.