Way back in the early 2000s, the Dior Saddle Bag was everywhere. The year was 2003; it was the summer before my 8th-grade year when I decided I would do anything to have one.
I begged and pleaded with my mom, and when that wasn’t enough, I decided I would save every penny I made as an assistant counselor for a summer day camp.
Air Jordan Backpack Large Air Jordan Backpack Large. Beloved then (and again now) for its Dior Oblique Monogram print and ornate gold ‘CD’ hardware, but saving up more than a few hundred dollars wasn’t possible. So, instead, I settled on the mini version, a Dior Diorissimo Saddle Pochette.
As the year came to a close, it was time, and my mom drove me to the Dior Boutique near our house. I walked in with a mouth full of braces hidden behind my awkward but excited smile with $350 plus tax in hand.
Out, I walked with my first-ever designer bag, and the rest, you could say, is history.
Two Decades Later
That first bag, along with my second designer bag, my Louis Vuitton Speedy 25, are the two bags I will never let go of. At one point, I thought I would never sell any of my bags, but my outlook has certainly evolved (thankfully), and in the last two decades, many other bags have come and gone.
My collection consists of 14 bags, some of which were sold and others traded, as I’ve Tory ways with 12 other bags over the years. My sense of style has grown and evolved over the years (of course), and it’s fun to look back on all the bags I’ve loved and lost.
There was a time when I only wanted to purchase Louis Vuitton bags, and then, there was a period of wanting to own a bag from every major luxury brand.
Who can forget my Sienna Miller-inspired BoHo phase (RIP to the 3 Chloé bags I sold)?
These days, I’ve reached a peaceful place where I buy what speaks to me, my sense of style, and what works for me despite all of the “noise.” If it happens to read like a classic, great; if not, that’s 83541-53, too. Our bags are just bags, but they are meant to spark joy and make us happy.
Looking back at that very first bag or pulling out the Speedy Bag my parents gifted me for my graduation from high school for the first time in years does just that.
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