Lady Handbag My First Vera Bradley Designer Handba

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1. DO YOUR RESEARCH:
The first key to buying a new-to-you purse is to do your research! You must learn the name of the style. Then get familiar with the style and brand. What kind of hardware does the manufacturer use? silver, nickel, brass, leather coated? Is the hardware stamped? If so, where? What colors was the model made in? What leathers were used? What kind of stamps or seals does the manufacturer use?A lot of this research can be done online and there are a ton of resources out there that will help you familiarize yourself with the purse model you're interested in getting. This is why blogs are so awesome Lady Handbag! They serve as a catalog of the purses that each manufacturer has made. Some consignment shops have great research kits that will help you familiarize yourself with the brand and how to spot ########s.
Fashionphile.com has excellent research tools to help learn more about various labels, especially for Louis Vuitton.2. CONSIGNMENT SHOPS:
You can buy at consignment shops. This again requires a lot of research and you should ask fellow purse lovers which consignment shops they recommend. My favorites are: Fashionphile Chanel Bikini, Yoogi'sCloset Dior Men Shoe, Ann's Fabulous Finds, Let Trade, Castira and Bag, Borrow or Steal. These sites are very well regarded and stand behind their product.Just note one thing: Generally, consignment shops have higher prices. The upside is they do the research, they authenticate the product and you can buy worry free.
I actually learned quite a bit about Vera Bradley handbags and found a great place to buy the one that fit my wife the best. I figured I could ride the bike and take a little trip to find an outlet place to pick one up. That way I could kill two birds with one shot. Since I love to ride and the closest outlet store was about 100 miles away all I had to do was find the time to get away, without my wife, and go buy one. Unfortunately, my wife likes to ride as much as I do so getting a 200 hundred mile ride with out her was impossible.
Since I had no idea what a Vera Bradley bag costs I quickly stopped that conversation and changed the subject to something I knew more about which would be just about anything else beside a Vera Bradley designer handbag. Later that evening, however, I decided to do a little search online to find out what I could about where to buy one and how much it would set me back to get my wife a nice Vera Bradley designer handbag. After all she did buy me a Harley Davidson Fatboy for my birthday and I figured that a Vera Bradley was not going to be that much. I did find some Hermes Birkin handbags for more than my Fatboy but the Vera Bradley bags were much more reasonable.
Her answer was, "I don't have any Vera Bradley's! I am waiting for you to buy me a nice one for my birthday."
I looked at her and asked, "So how many do you have?"
My wife and I were celebrating one of our friend's birthday when I came in contact with my first Vera Bradley designer handbag. Well, it really was not my first Vera Bradley designer handbag since I don't carry handbags no matter who has designed and/or made them. It was however, the first Vera Bradley I had knowingly laid my eyes on.
The next choice was to buy online. After a brief search I found a great place to buy not only a Vera Bradley designer handbag but just about any designer bag you might want to buy and at a great price. One happy wife and extra points for me and I did not even have to leave the house.
The birthday girl was more excited about getting that Vera Bradley than any other of her gifts that day. Naturally the rest of the women there to celebrate with the birthday girl also seemed to be more excited with the Vera Bradley designer handbag. They actually gathered around it like that Vera Bradley bag was a new adorable baby. It was amazing to me after all it wasn't a new Harley Fatboy it was only a new Vera Bradley designer handbag.
On the way home I asked my wife why a Vera Bradley designer handbag was such a big deal. She gave me a look like I was a little dense and said, "Come-on honey Vera Bradley bags are the new rage. Everybody wants one or two or three."