Tod’s Treccia Bag

I am loving all the colors for Fall!  Purple is making a huge scene, as with of course blue and green.  This Henry Beguelin hobo is casual but stylish, the pin tuck details totally make the bag without being overdone.  The woven handle looks like a Gryson and is a little played out but the contrasting color of it is a nice feature that raised my brows in interest when I first looked at it.  Every bag has to have something to catch my eye and you never know what it’s going to be.  Someone had commented that the Bag Snobs cannot be figured out.  Well, it’s not like we have a formula for what we do, I mean, we are highly emotional and irrational (aren’t all girls?) so even we have no idea what is going to make us love or hate something.  Our poor poor husbands.  Luckily they both know how we are and shrug off our irrational behavior.  I admit, my husband is an angel (this is called greasing the wheels for Fall credit card bills, he doesn’t stop me from buying but who wants to hear squeaking and whining?  When is he going to stop asking, “How many bags do you need?”  There is no real answer to that!  Besides, I just cleared out a huge opening in my closet for new bags.).  The Polly hobo at Neiman Marcus for $1235.

 

You know we adore Tod’s but the Treccia bag from its Fall collection is ugly and creepy.  Those giant buckles look like Alien googly eyes staring at me and no matter which way I turn, they follows me.  That’s not the only thing hideous about this bag though, the shape is old and frumpy and the braided handles look like a last minute attempt to salvage this bag.  It’s like someone had enough sense in the design process to say “holy shit, this is a piece of crap, let’s at least add braided handles so it will look Bottega-ish”  Nice try but this don’t fly.  And that dangling logo tag is a departure from its usual subtle logo placement, a huge thumbs down from the Bag Snob.   Did I mention it is monstrously large?  Can’t even imagine how heavy this must be.  It comes in dark pukey grey or shiny black.  Tod’s Treccia Bag at eLuxury- $1,490.