https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:58:12 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553525 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 13:53:59 +0000 shedev 1553525@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I went through the same thing with red shoes. Let the bags find new homes. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553443 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 10:53:53 +0000 unfrumped 1553443@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Bye- bye! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553402 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 04:30:16 +0000 Deborah 1553402@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The darker red one is really lovely but what size is? It looks like a tote? They look too small for you?!?! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553401 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 04:21:34 +0000 Ankita 1553401@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Set them free! ☺ </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553375 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 02:21:12 +0000 Firecracker (Sharan) 1553375@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think carrying a red bag is a commitment. It's also perhaps a bit too conventional for your style. That's just a guess. <br />And what's wrong with limiting non-neutrals to blues/greens/plums? I don't wear bright red and don't miss it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553367 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 02:02:10 +0000 Maneera 1553367@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ok I don't think RED is the problem here at all. The problem is the style and design of these small bags. Bags like these work only with dressy outfits...coz they're too small to work as your regular bag (in which we lug our world around!) </p> <p>I picture you with large bags - both structured as well as slouchy-casual. Send them to the Guilt Dump I say! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553352 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 01:31:28 +0000 Jaime 1553352@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love it! To the guilt dump! You will appreciate them all the more on someone else. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553328 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 00:38:22 +0000 UmmLila (Lisa) 1553328@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think you're better off with more structured bags. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553322 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 00:31:35 +0000 Kristin L 1553322@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Consign. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553320 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 00:28:34 +0000 Thistle 1553320@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Consign. You haven't been using them unless there is a reason why that would change, you aren't going to start reaching for them. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553309 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 00:03:37 +0000 texstyle 1553309@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I tried burgundy pants (recently again) and just laughed at myself when I put them on. I love deep wine shades on top but red or wine on bottom just never works for me and I never seem to learn. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553281 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 23:07:03 +0000 Janet 1553281@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>LOL Y'all are cracking me up. </p> <p>FREE THE BAGS! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553274 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 23:01:26 +0000 Anonymous 1553274@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I can hear those bags demanding their freedom.&nbsp; Release the hostages!</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553265 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 22:50:17 +0000 Anonymous 1553265@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Una speaks for me too. And Viva. &nbsp;I don't know what it is with red either, but I'm already cringing at a red purse (thankfully NOT expensive) and reddish &nbsp;boots (WERE expensive- someone please help me) I bought last fall thinking red was for me. &nbsp;Eh, not so much. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553240 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 21:52:49 +0000 viva 1553240@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I just let a red bag go myself. I would say purge. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553238 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 21:47:37 +0000 Janet 1553238@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>ROFL at the Guilt Dump!</p> <p>OK, they're going on the GD. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553234 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 21:44:43 +0000 catgirl 1553234@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Maybe we should call the Style Exchange the Guilt Dump. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553229 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 21:41:53 +0000 Suz 1553229@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Let them go and try not to feel bad about yourself. You can't know until you try something whether it will work. These don't seem edgy enough for you. They are "pop of colour" bags vs. statement bags. You like statement bags or bags that blend in and do the job (if you are wearing enough other statement items), one or the other.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553225 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 21:38:05 +0000 Janet 1553225@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hah, Carter, you have a good memory. I have two red jackets that stay in my closet, resisting a purge, because they both fit and look really nice on me, even though I have trouble actually deciding to wear them. What *IS* that?? I'm going to give them a try this fall and see if it's just time for them to go. I hate to limit my wardrobe non-neutrals to just blues/greens/plums... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553222 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 21:35:03 +0000 Janet 1553222@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rambling Ann, they should be there now, sorry!</p> <p>Peri, that may have something to do with it. The Hobo (darker one) has a crossbody strap too, but I rarely care to use crossbody bags unless they're small and compact, and only in certain situations. </p> <p>Una, yes. I reach for my cobalt blue backpack all the time, and I use my mint bag too. I love my metallic and neutral bags, my floral clutch, etc. All of those bags complete my outfits better than these do, at least at this point in time. I think you've made a very good point about a mental burden. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553219 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 21:33:17 +0000 kellygirl 1553219@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I picture you with more structured handbags for some reason. These just don't seem edgy enough for you. The one on the left seems more like your style if you wanted to keep one--that one seems like it might work as a more boho style. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553218 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 21:32:42 +0000 carter 1553218@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Didn't you have this very same epiphany about red a year or so ago? I think it's pretty clear that regular reds just don't add any value to your closet. I vote consign. See...I can make these decisions...just not in my own closet;-). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553214 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 21:29:04 +0000 catgirl 1553214@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Me too. And yet I reach for black all the time. I feel red is an aspirational color for me, unless it's something Indian. These are beautiful bags but Ihave a feeling that just having them around unused is a mental burden. Let them go.... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553213 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 21:28:52 +0000 Peri 1553213@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think that style is really hard to use...those small handles that you have to hold and thus always have your hands tied up. Maybe that is a contributing factor.</p> <p>I think you answered your own question...you have plenty of bags you love and use, so why would you ever reach for these instead of one of those? Let them go.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553211 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 21:25:11 +0000 Rambling Ann 1553211@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>photos gone missing? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/red-handbags---keep-or-consign#post-1553210 Mon, 07 Sep 2015 21:24:06 +0000 Janet 1553210@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>OK, I feel like I'm blowing up the forum today, but please bear with me. Obviously I'm having some crisis over my unworn/unused items right now and I feel the need to bounce this off of you guys. </p> <p>The two bags pictured here are really nice, beautiful bags. And yet, I never use them anymore. In fact, the darker red Hobo one I've put on eBay a time or two and didn't get a buyer. I'm ashamed to admit that I've never used it. Somehow I managed to let the return window lapse, even though I decided that the style was a bit too staid for me and the color not burgundy enough. </p> <p>The tomato red Marc Jacobs I used a lot a couple of years ago, mainly in warmer months, but somehow something in my tastes has shifted and I haven't reached for it in God knows how long. </p> <p>Can I get some opinions on these bags, and whether I should be keeping them and trying to make them work, or take them to the consignment shop with my other big pile? Be brutal. I have plenty of bags I love and use. </p> <p>(And what is it with me and red? Why do I not use/wear it as much as I think I will? If it's truly burgundy, I love it, but other shades just go untouched.) </p>