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How to Tell Fake Togo Leather from a Hermes Birkin Bag

This is not a post to teach you how to tell a fake Hermes Birkin. You can check out how to tell a fake birkin here.

It is a post to show you how to tell fake togo leather from a Hermes birkin bag. Real togo leather is very soft when you touch it. Most togo leather you can find from replica Hermes Birkin bags are stiff. When you buy it online you cannot touch its texture, but you can still check the photos carefully and tell the difference. Check the photos below:

Now it is quiz time! 🙂 which one is made of real togo below:

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Update – How to tell a fake Hermes Birkin

Lambskin lining, clear-cut correct font engravement on metal plate, slim diamond-shaped end-handle stitching, soft leather, they are not the standard answer to an authentic Hermes birkin any more.

My sourse told me a so-called OMAS company claims to make the most authentic birkin bags apart from Hermes. They have been in the replica market for more than 4 years. The latest omas birkin bags sell more than $1,000 USD. They claim they are using the same togo leather used by Hermes.

My sourse also told me most of these bags (without logo plate) are shipped to Japan. The logo plates are then put on the bags in Japan. I start to wonder some authentic Hermes Birkin bags sold in the second hand shops which are prevalent in Japan might be fake!

Tags: Hermes by Lucy
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How to Invest a Designer Bag

I bought a Chanel East West bag in Burgundy and my girlfriend bought a classic Chanel 2.55 caviar bag in black in Heathrow airport early this year. Both bags cost almost the same.

Chanel East-West Bag

After 5 months, we both decided to sell them. Guess what, it turned out my girlfriend got back almost the same amount of money by selling her caviar Chanel to a second-hand designer shop but I only got back 40% of what I paid for the Chanel East-West Bag from the same shop.

Here are some tips I got from the experts as to how to invest a designer purse if you don’t plan to keep it in the rest of your life.

1, black is always the safe bet. They think burgundy is too old for young customers while mature customers won’t choose burgundy – strange!

2, it is either large bags like Chanel coco cabas or smaller bags like clutches that can sell well in the second-hand designer market.

3, classic style such as Hermes Birkin, Bottega Veneta Limited Edition Cabas, Chanel 2.55, Louis Vuitton Speedy can keep its value better than the latest style. IT bags are the bags that drop value dramatically once they pass their IT period: such as the Dior Gaucho bag.

4, my personal opinion: If you live in a humid place, please avoid buying lambskin bags unless you know how to keep the surrounding air drp! I bought this lambskin Chanel and then went to hot humid Hongkong for a 2 months holiday. When I got back to cold dry England I found MOULD on my lambskin Chanel, which I cannot get rid of!

This serial number tells the style of a bag. 121 means it is a new model from 2008.