It is easy to find knock-off’s of designer handbags on the market today, much to the chagrin of the authentic handbag designers. These knock-offs aim to capitalize on the popularity of the designer’s handbags and are sold on street corners, black markets and various other illicit avenues all for the love of money. There are also legitimate copies of designer bags made by manufacturers who also wish to capitalize on the popularity of the bags and make a buck, but do so at the expense of no one. They are simply offering customers a reasonable facsimile of a designer bag at an affordable price. They are not pretending to sell something that it is not.
These handbag copying manufacturers have worked hard to make their bags closely resemble the real designer bags and the designers have worked equally hard to distinguish their bags from the copy cats. This makes designers happy, but leaves handbag customers at sea attempting to separate truth from fiction when they go on their hunt for a designer bag to call their own.
The chances are good though if you know what you are looking for, you will be able to get your hands on an authentic designer handbag.
1. The first thing to look at when you are trying to determine the authenticity of a bag is the leather. The leather on a high-end bag is usually the finest leather in the world. It will be smooth and soft. Most knock-off bag use second-rate leather that looks rigid or scaly.
2. Stitching is another dead give away that your bag is a phony. The stitching on that real handbag will match the color of the leather so well as to be almost undetectable. The seams will be straight and the edges folded under to meet each other. The phony bag will have overlapped leather and may even have loose ends stitched into the straps of the bag.
If the leather hasn’t convinced you as to the authenticity of the bag, check the fabric on the interior of the bag. Knock-offs usually have a basic print or plain fabric lining. Authentic bags will have the brand name printed on the fabric lining.
High-end handbag designers have made another step to ward off imposters. The rivets and metal fixtures on the designer bag will be stamped with the brand name. As an example, Prada stamps the rivets and fixtures with the stem of the “r” slightly awry instead of straight. If you are looking at a Prada bag and see a perfectly straight “r” stamped somewhere, put the bag down and leave the premises.
Finally, a lot of handbag designers today are providing registration cards with each bag to separate their bags from the fakes. Many even include holograms on these registration cards to make duplicating them very difficult. The registration number on the card must match the registration number placed somewhere on the bag. Some designers stamp the number on the bag’s interior while some sew or rivet the number on a metal plate. When purchasing your designer handbag, do your homework to determine where the designer of your bag usually places their stamp and that the stamp and information on the registration card provided by the designer are identical.
Now you have all the information you need to buy that to-die-for bag and be certain it\’s the real thing. This is not the time to be tentative. Go ahead and purchase that designer handbag of your dreams knowing you have the genuine article.
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