Vintage Coach Bags vs. Modern Coach Bags
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Thanks so much for doing the comparison! So many influencers said the old Coach bags were better.
The old Coach bags are superior to those of that loved them back in the day. Prefer the utilitarian look.
I think the vintage are actually better quality. I own both old and new. The leather gets beat up easily today.
They are
@Yia Vang that's because, as he said in the video, the old leather was more rugged and not as refined. The more rugged the leather is, the less you can see the wear and tear. It's still there, but the texture hides it. That doesn't mean the quality of the leather itself is better.
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@@yiavang102 listen to the video again lol
I have one of these bags. Same color and age. It's 30 years old and it cleaned up with a bit of saddle soap and leather balm. I've been carrying it nonstop since I got it.
I’m pretty sure you can take your bags in and they will clean and condition them for free!
@@fellatioraptor8200they used to clean them up for us.
Jealous!
Me too. The new bags are shit.
Your next video should be a comparison of a Coach outlet handbag versus Coach retail. I worked for Coach outlet and noticed there was a difference in hardware from the outlet to retail ⚠️
Duh it’s made for the outlets😂
I love the older, rugged purse look. Mainly because I want a true leather bag I can sling over my shoulder and wear with more jeans and a sweater and it not look out of place
I think the newer Coach bags are more refined, but I like the durability of the more rugged vintage bags. I had a vintage coach, and man was that leather thick and tough. Just felt substantial like a premium saddle type of leather.
I still have my first Coach bag that I purchased in 1987 as a teenager with her first job. it has been through hell and back with me. I retired her about 10 yrs ago but right now if I took her out and gave her a cleaning.... , she would be right back in service. She looks the very same. Indestructible!!!! We used to joke that the 2 things you could never destroy were original Coach bags and Original K-Swiss white tennis shoes. The leather was thick and hearty!!!
The vintage bags were very rugged, but have stood the test of time. I have 2 from the late 80's and another from the 90's. Still going strong. I love my coach bags.
Thank you for your sacrifice, vintage coach bag.🙏
Let’s start a riot😂
I have that exact bag my mom had one too. We both got rid of them, she passed away and I missed having it so much I tracked one down and had it cleaned professionally. Looks so good and I think of my mom EVERYTIME I use it
I am not a huge name brand person, I don't mind department store products in general. HOWEVER Coach is the ONLY name brand bag I will spend money on. The quality is just superior, and I feel they are a worthy investment purse wise.
I agree, even though it won't be as valuable if you resell it as brand new
Hi, I'm new to coach, can you please recommend me some of the most worthy coach bags you purchased? Thank you.
@dwzxliytrteuiwm8665 hello my friend. I suggest looking at what bag styles you prefer and then shopping based on your taste. I purchased my first Coach from a second-hand shop. I really like the shape and how it sits on my shoulder. I love the inside pocket layout. I do purchase my Coach bags second hand. If you are careful you can get excellent condition for very low price. My most recent bag I only paid 35usd. I am collecting all of the colors of the Lexy Legacy bag. It is my perfect bag and I want all of them.
@dwzxliytrteuiwm8665 I will also say make sure you look at inside photos of bags. I almost purchased a very nice tote bag but thankfully I looked inside and saw it was NOT a style I would prefer. I like a lot of pockets and divided bags. I do not like big open spaces in my bags. So keep that in mind. Look for only what you like, not just the name.
@@kindmama oh I didn't consider purchasing second hand bags, but that sounds tempting haha, thank you so much for replying to me
COACH IS POUND FOR POUND BEST VALUE.
I started buying Coach bags in the ‘80s. I still have them. These days, I only buy the older (vintage) Coach bags.
Old Coach bags were some of my early favorite bags to carry, and I would absolutely still pick one up if I happened across a unique one
I have several vintage Coach pieces. They wear so well, and I love their utilitarian vibe.
Interesting! I've noticed my new Coach glovetanned leather bags are definitely better quality than my vintage ones. Coach really is good quality all around!
Their glove tanned leather is probably their 2nd best leather next to water buffalo, which they sometimes use for SLGs but never bags.
Yes, I agree with you, new ones have better quality in materials but hate showing off “COACH” name in front of newer versions, I rather have old one that ages well,
Thank you!!! Having the name “Coach” stamped on everything is annoying
Was looking at the older ones for this reason and made in the US.
Have several vintage coach purses. Still use them and preferred. Love that i can still smell the leather...
This is awesome!!!! I love Coach and think their stuff is totally worth the money. Thanks, Tanner! You’re the best!
I have a very big question on your comment and hope you can see it and help explain a bit. I watched all your videos and it seems like you have a personal preference for minimally finished leather. Vintage coach is the least finished leather product which is aniline dyed. It’s fullgrained without any corrections. Today’s Coach, we don’t even know what quality grade leather is and I would really appreciate if your video can expose if the new coach also use top grained leather. Given the top coating, it’s hard to tell the quality of the leather.
Yes!!’
Yes. It's durable. Old bags are in high demand. You can sell vintage bags back to Coach. The reloved bags cost 3x more than the original prices.
The design is better because a top designer from LV left that company. He's been the top designer for Coach for a few years. Coach patterns have coins and other symbols like those found on LV canvas.
Yeah coach designs are so beautiful now
Dude you are underrated
I have an Evening bag from my grandmother. It was made in Venice about 100 years ago. It is the most awesome piece of craftsmanship! ❤❤❤
TI CREDO!!!
@@thomasgissler598 👍😊
YES!! I purchased my first Coach in 1982! It’s a must better leather and looks great now❣️❣️❣️
Interesting I've heard alot of people argue that the vintage ones are better quality and last a life time
I would love to see vintage dooney and bourke vs new dooney
Thank you! Never bought a Coach bag but... the myth that the older Coach bags are much better quality also reached me ....
I’ve been a fan of Coach since the 90’s. I absolutely love the quality of their leather goods.
I work in a high-end department store in the handbag department. And I tell you Coach is back with great quality. I haven't brought one in almost 20 years, but i did a week ago. ❤❤
Coach has always been one of my favourite brands, when I was shopping for a bag I could tell the difference in craftsmanship, between coach and the other similarly priced brands. It’s very underrated tbh.
Love Coach and have been a collector for some time 🫶✨
the willis bag! so waiting for them to bring back the black version!
I found two of them on Poshmark they are fantastic!
Love DUPBAGY the way you show it! You really focus on showing off the bag. I don't think any other CZcamsr can show off bags in as much detail as you.
Coach is my favourite American brand
I recently found and sold three different vintage, black leather coach bags with brass hardware for over $100 each. They felt like better quality to me than the modern bags.
That's nice
I have a coach bag from 2012 and it still looks and feels brand new. It has heavy hardware, soft buttery leather, and has survived Texas heat. It has been and still is made very well
I would love to see you dissect a fake handbag!
Coach, for as famous as they have always been, seem to somehow still remain under appreciated as a brand. Their quality and price point are usually very on par with each other and they have proven time and time again to be worthy of the attention and praise that I see people give significantly more expensive, less deserving brands. I love Coach.
They’re built to last, even he said they are rugged. I have some from the Bonnie Cashin era that have no wear.
I felt some Years ago in Love with the Brand "COACH" - the Prices are medium high, and the Quality of the Leather is very nice and I'm very happy with my Bags from COACH.
I doesn't have Vintage Versions of COACH Bags...doesn't matter 🥰🤗, I'm very happy with my few Bags from the last 10 Years ❣️✌🏼
I love this channel and appreciate the dispassionate professional opinions and analysis. i do still adore vintage Coach for all the reasons stated, they are more basic and less "fashion" and they have a beautiful artisan look and weight to them. if you told me i could have only new or vintage i would not be able to choose.
Coach is really good quality. I literally just gave up on the bag before it gave up on me.
Thank you for doing this! I bought my brother a $450 Salvatore Ferragamo wallet for Christmas because he claimed it was better quality than a Coach wallet. Would love to see you do a comparison.
He’s just being Eurocentric . Artisans in Vietnam are just as good as artisans in Italy , and you don’t hav e to pay as much . Ferragamo is also family run/ majority owned still which he’s paying for
So coach has gotten better while the high end ones have gone downhill. Good to know because I only buy coach and can’t afford the high end stuff (and find them tacky tbh)
Love my vintage Coach from the 00s. Good to know all this.
I love coach and I love hearing that their quality improved but I feel like their new designs aren’t as timeless and beautiful as before and they’re more on the trendy side. I wish they have some more classic elegant pieces becaus their quality is incredible
Glad others are taking notice of Coach
This is so great! Always so interesting
Coach fan for Life🙌🏿
I’ve got a bifold Coach black leather wallet that I bought in 1997. Still looks and works great. Love things that look great and last forever.
I’ve been a fan of Coach since the late 80’s when I saved up for my first one. Since then I’ve only purchased 2 others brand new. The rest I’ve bought at thrift shops and yes, they are all authentic. I have not paid more than $35 and that one was for the Coach briefcase. 💼
I’m loving the new coach they had some challenges fit a min
Old Coach💪🏾💪🏼💪stronger rough on the outside. And lasts!
True for the effort & price.
There are always variations in quality even back-in-the-day.
Im a Coach SA. To anyone that is going to Coach boutique to find their first Coach bag. Look or try atleast one of these
1) glovetanned leather *this is their holygrail of leather equal to krabby patty*
Character: natural sheen finished, vivid color, smooth grain. Age more beautiful with use. Once the leather broken in, its soft & supple very hugable and squishy. Smells nice too 😅
2)leather binding (edges are wrap with leather for durability)
3)nappa leather lining (durable, scratch resistant, luxurious handsfeel & ez to clean) usually found on their 1941 collections
4) Dont be shy to tell us what you want for a bag because Coach update their design every month so not all bags are displayed on shelf. Some from previous months are kept inside
But you didn’t say how I use our employee discount 🤭
I have that same vintage Coach bag. It was my first Coach bag over 20 plus years ❤.
Pls try to make your own bag design & make them into reality. Make a sample of a very well made bag according to u, especially in terms of the quality. Also, tell us how much are you willing to sell it (i think it's a good idea if you actually sell it too). I'd be so interested to buy it if i can afford it 😅. I am a new fan and subscribers of yours. I highly appreciate your knowledge and how you share it. I learned a lot, thank you
I do prefer the vintage bags. Hate most of the materials today. Looks cheap.
I have this exact bag, it’s older than I am and will probably outlast me as well!! While the new purses may look more sophisticated, I’d much prefer the “rugged” construction for its strength and reliability.
Yes vintage was beautiful.
Can you review coach outlet vs retail? ❤
He did one in his earlier video on his insta
That’s surprising but also refreshing to know. It seems like many items are going to shit nowadays, especially clothes.
I have that vintage bag and love it
Thank you❣️💕
Thanks love Coach ❤
Coach is definitely one of the few brands imho that quality has gotten better over time. I think back then it was so much harder to achieve 100% consistently with the technology they had. We could have the same bag, made with the same materials but made by two different craftsmen. Thus we would have two very different experiences, making one a diehard Coach fan and the other never buys one again.
NOW though with all the tech that is used, bags SHOULD last forever!!!
You killed it! Can you make something else with the pieces
I know! I was like "please don't show me how you destroyed that beautiful bag!!!" (but still interesting)
Lol the way I'm just like "so no? yes?"
Very well put!!
I love love love my coach bags.
Thank you 😊
Can you review Dooney & Bourke bags?
Can you do please Coach Bandit bag? The leather is different and gorgeous. Almost like vintage
Love my vintage Coach Court bags.
I like both vintage and new Coach bags… Vintage bags is not for everyone but don’t knock it until you try it… He just said some Tanner may not perform certain things the Vintage bag had. Either way love them both. TFS ❤
I have two vintage coach bags and from a personal use standpoint I’ll take them any day over new coach. My sister got a new coach bag for Christmas one year and I just would rather have thick leather that stands the test of time rather than something lined that could fall apart with heavy use 🤷🏻♀️
I love Coach handbags!!!❤❤❤
I bought one Coach bag and I love love loved it not long after I got mugged at a train station. I wanted to reby it but couldn't find it. 😢
Thank you. Can you do a video on the Coach Cary shoulder bag?
I just love Coach.
can you do Guess bags next? not really a luxury brand but still in demand..
I love my coach bags!!
I love your videos, but I have to disagree on this one. Vintage coach is rustic I suppose, but beautifully so. The quality in my opinion far surpasses what coach is putting out there now. I have probably around 100 Coach bags in my collection spanning all the decades from the 1970’s to 2023 and I do gently use them. The pillow tabby (the one you take apart here) cracks at a stress point where the flap attaches to the bag. It’s happened on all three of mine, and I’ve had to put a dab of leather glue there with a toothpick to stop the delicate leather from tearing further. The Cassie’s do the same thing, and I’ve seen reviewers complain about this as well. The gunmetal hardware chips. I’ve had brand new pieces come chipped, but certainly with normal use, it’s inevitable. So, I think you have to carry a bag awhile to see what’s it truly made of, and how it functions.
I still prefer the vintage Coach bags over the new stuff! They just feel more substantial and luxurious
For supple leathers, generally vegetable tanned leather is avoided for the following reasons :
1. The anionic eco friendly tannage can be easily deep dyed through and through , but, we cannot dye them to a saturated color. We can form color lakes on top by precipitating a cationic dye, but, cationic dyes are
Carcinogenic, though they will be bright. They suffer from poor light fastness. Further,we can not make a supple leather at 1.3 / 1.6 mm thick skins with that kind touch
2. On the chrome tanned leather the dye works very well. But, they ought to be neutralised after chrome tanning. In that process, the neutralisation has to be and the pH of the bath cannot be raised as it will interfere with tightness Of grain which will result in loose and pipy grains. Therefore, an anionic dye cannot deep penetrate into a chrome leather beyond some degree from the grain and flesh layer. In fact, the leather at that thickness does not call for such a through and through dyeing, as one never reaches that depth of abrasion.
In order to get avoid patchy dyeing to achieve a uniform distribution, it is common to give some anionic syntans along with the dye and this is widely practiced for making pale bright fashion shades.
Without taking the conditions of all factors involved, a good technologist makes a good leather optimised.
It is not fair to pass a uniform rule and pass judgement is a very unfair way of dealing with the subject.
Technologists are behind the scene at the tannery and since they cannot counter the evaluation of us
Sitting in market place. All that we can say is that high brands are charging heavy price for their monogram.
Leather is very labour intensive. Sample organisation calls for employing expensive designers and after several rounds of trials and errors, the construction part gets planned. By and large, the labour cost is very high in the costing. Whether one employs a 2 $ / sq ft leather or 6$/ sq ft per leather, the labour content
In terms of cost is the same.
While I appreciate and admire your passion for good leather ( I am in full agreement ), I think, it is better
To take a neutral view about the leather making. Criticism can only be about the margin of profit.
I love coach.
Very interesting! I am a fan of the brand coccinele -italian brand and i have few bags that in time have really kept their texture and shape. It would be interesting to know what you think or their leather
This man has a talent. I would much prefer to buy a high quality bag from a recommended independent saddler. I am not convinced that high end bags are actual value for money and quality?
I love coach
it is so refreshing to see a company's quality getting better with time and technology while chanel and LV, supposed leaders in this industry, are cutting back on quality while also raising prices for a money grab.
Thank you I like coach
I have the same bag but in brown/cognac color
Polene and Coach are my top looks.
Could you also do a video on the brand Chloe! Thank youuuu!
In your full grain leather video you mentioned it’s the best quality leather. Vintage Coach is full grain leather. How are the new bags better quality with this, highly embossed leather? The designs may be prettier but the actual leather is not better quality. You can tell by the feel alone. I went to look at the new versions of my vintage bags and the new ones literally feel like cardboard. My bags are soft and supple at 20+ years old. I doubt if these new bags would last 5 years. And the solid brass hardware compared to today’s hollow painted metal? Coach couldn’t sell a bag today using the same high quality materials as vintage bags for less than $1K. They’re reselling the actual vintage bags on their website right now for $600-800. Vintage quality is top notch regardless of the utilitarian design.
What about Kate spade? I live the colours they have and they last for years!
Ok but what's YOUR brand.
I'm sure the craftsmanship is so refined and beautiful
"It ain't a Coach bag, without the Coach tag". I prefer the vintage Coach products.
The leather patch on the brass beads 😩😍
I've been buying Coach for over 40 years. The auality puts most high brands to shame
Old focused on usage, new focuses on fashion.
There are plenty of rugged brands nowadays and for a cheap price too. You don’t go to a fashion store asking for everyday attire, you don’t go into a luxury or a BMW/Mercedes dealership asking for a 4WD and expecting value for money.
It’s easy to jump on the bandwagon and say: ‘back in my day’ or ‘they don’t make them as they used to’ but it’s just apples and banana nowadays
The older bags leathers looks thicker