Bo's Blog

So I bought a Louis Vuitton Marly Dragonne Gm Monogram Brown Coated Canvas Wristlet. I have been cleaning a lot of vintage pieces so I am very familiar with the zipper and hardware of these bags. BUT I had encountered something new. I bought a piece that had the date code 861 (no letters) which meant that it was made in 1986 January. I started to clean the zipper and I notice a few things that started to freak me out. * First of all the colour of the zipper was different.  It was a pinky copper color, as opposed to the normal gold brass colour.  * Second, the shape of the zipper teeth were different!   * The back of each zipper had " Swiss  Made" on the backside of it   * the front zipper pull was silver, not gold WHAT IS GOING ON!? Did I just purchase a  counterfeit ? I have seen so many vintage pieces and no way this was counterfeit. The canvas and leather was perfect, ...

I planned for a trip for 2 people; myself and my mum. You really need to read this before you book ANYTHING. So the best time to start planning is EARLY AS POSSIBLE. The Green parts labelled will be important tips you need to take into consideration. I will go through 1. how I planned it and why 2. what I missed 3. what I would have done differently I first tried to plan it by city. But you really need to consider what time of year you are planning to go . I think prime time is going 25th of May onwards. I went May 14th till the 29th and we were so freezing our butts off till around the 22nd of May. Once you have your dates into Europe and out of Europe sorted, you must plan which country in and which country out you will take . My mum chose to go in to Paris, France and come out via Milano, Italy. Going into Europe you must consider what time of day you will be landing . We took off from Seoul South Korea and landed in Paris around 6:30PM. ...