Showing posts with label fine leather goods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fine leather goods. Show all posts

Monday, September 15, 2025

Please Bring Back The Original COACH Cassie


As a value shopper I’ve lost out on buying a few items I’ve waited to go on sale. It’s the risk you take when trying to stick to your budget. THEN I had a suitable everyday COACH handbag and didn’t feel comfortable spending $350 for a new bag I wanted, but didn’t really need at that movement, even one to this day I fawn over. Not pulling the trigger if you’re not deprived is a sensible best practice in money management. Often buying too far into the future ends up being a waste of money. Your needs change, or a better version of an item you covet launches. 

Well here we are in the future. The time has come for me to buy a new everyday leather handbag, so the original COACH Cassie (a medium size bag) is the one that got away! Such a classic handbag, COUCH surprised me by discontinuing it! True COACH fans never saw it coming!

The original COACH Cassie is 10" (L) x 7 1/4" (H) x 1 3/4" (W) with a top handle, outside pocket, turnlock closure and crossbody strap -- every characteristic I need and love!

I refuse to pay the inflated prices of the Cassies listed on the pre-loved market, costing more or the same as what it sold for new in pristine condition at COACH retail stores. If not a bargain, we should pass on buying a seller's used purse!!!

Therefore, I’m appealing to (um imploring, begging) COACH to reissue this classic bag in its larger size. I don’t care if COACH makes it slightly bigger, but I can’t use smaller dimensions in an everyday bag. Also please keep the super cute top handle as is. The looser top handles in the smaller COACH Cassie 19 or 17 isn’t as stylish. (I don’t understand the small bag craze at all. Costing nearly as much as a full-sized bag, yet you can’t fit your essentials inside! Waste of money!! Heck, just go with your pants pocket.😂) Finally, I prefer either pebbled leather or glovetan leather! Glovetan leather would be a dream!!!

Readers, the Cassie was inspired by the Court, a vintage COACH messenger bag in glovetan leather. If reissued, I’d buy either, or, and be over the moon!🦖

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Coach Is An Easy Bag To Love


As readers know, Coach is my bag of choice. I've written 2 blogs featuring the retailer which I'll link below, and I've included Coach in blogs devoted to elite bag roundups as well.

My Foley & Corinna, "liberated" leather purse that I paid less for is starting to wear out, so I thought it was a good time to snatch up the Coach Marlie Top Handle Satchel* I've been ogling for months. Moreover, Coach persistently tempts me by
sending daily emails reminding me to buy it! Finally last night they got me to put it in my online shopping cart by offering the bag in Coach's Early Black Friday Preview Flash Sale 
-- and I had an additional 15% off promo code plus free shipping. Now leave me, alone Coach, I've taken the bait!

Suffice it to say, Coach sells full-grain leather luxe quality bags without the inflated French designer brand price hikes. The reason the merchant is less expensive than its French counterparts is Coach doesn't market itself as an exclusive, lavish label with the hype and 4-times-per-year price increases. Coach is a straightforward fine leather goods retailer that dates back to 1941. Customers get superior craftsmanship and classic style without the over-the-top markups. What's more, the retailer has a stellar outlet where you'll find true bargains.

So while Coach bags are never dirt cheap, you don't pay for the snobby ballyhoo of its French competitors. Don't get me wrong, I love Hermès, Chanel, and Dior, and will at times write about them. They're such beautiful eye candy how can you not cover them? But if I'm being honest, I just don't want to fork over that many zeros for a handbag, and with Coach we get affordable, well-made fine leather bags. It's the bag for value shoppers who have a fashionista gene.

The Marlie Top Handle Satchel comes in an assortment of leathers, colors, and patterns. It's adorable in red, and often, I gravitate towards pebble leather for its durability. However, I'm choosing black Nappa quilted and smooth leather with gold hardware in order to use the crossover bag as a universal everyday and evening purse. At 9 inches wide, the bag is a tad small for my everyday only bag -- I already know, but I can just make it work on enough days. It's perfect as an evening bag. I hope I don't have chain issues ... but with Coach you seldom do. Moreover, if anything breaks, Coach repairs it over the life of the bag, and to be sure, Couch bags last over a human lifetime plus! (BTW: Coach has a program where they'll buy back their vintage bags.)
The Marlie Tote
Additionally, my lovely readers, I'm showing you the Marlie Tote ... also super chic and on sale, but I dare not grab its image from Coach Outlet's website, or the company will start online stalking me again. Stop it, Coach! Lead me not into temptation -- I can find it all by myself!👜🦖

* Wow, I paid Coach Outlet $130 (including taxes) for my Nappa leather Coach Marlie bag, and now people are trying to resell them for twice and triple the price, which unfortunately is not a deal at all. 

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