This is what I call a slow build to madness. “Even the style is typical of Chanel vintage piece.” “The Chanel embossing is correct and the leather is consistent with ‘caviar’ leather,” she wrote. We were on the hunt for a “Made in Italy” or “Made in France” stamp, though she admitted with the age of the wallet it could have rubbed off. “Can you check the upper corners?” the authenticator wrote me. I found it among her things a decade after she died. I’d sent her 10 photos from different angles, zoomed in and back out, of the Chanel wallet that had belonged to my late mother. These are some quick steps you can take to weed out some of the fakes, and is not a complete guide to all tips necessary, but it will provide some insulation from many of the phonies in the viral marketplace.After a dozen email exchanges with an expert in designer Chanel items, and eight hours of scrolling through hundreds of purse photos, I still didn’t have an answer. Authentic brass will have an aged look, and the phony brass will have a shiny, superficially cheap appearance. This is a cheap metal used by counterfeiters that is colored to look like brass and replicate the authentic brass that Dooney would implement.
This would represent nickel in many cases. A good way to inspect the hardware for authentic or phony brass is to look closely for evidence of silver areas. Dooney & Bourke utilizes a high quality brass for all their metal accents. Any evidence of sloppy and rushed stitch lines resulting in wobbly or asymmetric seams is a major red flag.Īlways check the hardware. There should be no crooked or uneven stitch lines along the rim of the piping leather. The stitch lines associated with the piping will also be high quality. The piping refers to the rounded edges of the handbag, and this feature will be a high quality leather. Coach has also made this change from the USA to China.Īfter checking where the handbag was made, check the piping. However, vintage D&B handbags should all say made in the USA. Many of the newer bags are manufactured in China.
So for the record, a D&B that says made in China does not mean it is a fake handbag. But in fact, it is an authentic Dooney, and it was made in China. What? Dooney is supposed to be made in the USA, right? The buyer then starts to panic, assuming she had been duped by a phony handbag. The buyer purchases a Dooney handbag, takes it home, throws it over her shoulder and it looks great! Then she peaks inside and starts playing around with the interior zippers etc, and stumbles across a tiny tag that says those three little words: Made in China. And this can create a lot of confusion for the buyer. Dooney and (&) Bourke handbags were once a staple of American quality and fashion, but like many other fashion designers, have went the way of cheaper manufacturing via Chinese labor.
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