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First-timer here! I’m saving up for my first bag and I’m trying to decide between the Carryall PM and the Speedy 25. I’m looking for a medium-sized bag that can carry:
- a SMALL 16oz water bottle
- wallet
- keys
- phone
- power bank
- small pouch of essentials.

I have a medium Coach Rowan that can fit all of these and I’ve seen the Rowan compared with the Speedy. My Rowan is pretty structured though, and I’d prefer something that slouches/curves to my body a bit more comfortably. I’m 5’2” 130lbs and don’t want something that looks to huge on my frame either.
Thoughts?

Looking for some fun/cozy reads for the fall for someone with PG-13 tastes!
- Minimum spice
- No excessive gore/horror
- Any genre!

This sub is full of people asking for authentication requests, so that has me curious. Have you ever seen a fake bag in the wild? Have you ever actually paid enough attention to someone else’s bag to notice or care if it’s fake?

Obviously, we want to avoid spending money on a fake bag someone is selling online as real. I’m not talking about that. But let’s say you’re gifted a fake bag or pick one up at a thrift store. If you enjoy using the bag, and you’re not trying to scam someone else by selling it… how much does it really matter?

I guess I’m just curious if people are really out there judging other people’s bags, or if it’s not that deep.

Last year, my husband and I had our honeymoon to Japan, but my husband was sick for all but one day of the Tokyo portion. We had a blast the rest of our trip, but he has barely seen any of Tokyo at all. He recently had a job change, and despite getting 2 weeks of PTO, he can’t take more than 7 continuous days off. Which leaves us with 5 total days. I’ll be staying in Japan solo for an extra week or so (planning that later). On the one day he wasn’t sick in Tokyo last year, we did Ginza and Shibuya.

We’ll be flying into Narita sometime in February. We live in Orlando. Praying that Zip Air adds more flights! They’re the only ones who do direct flights from Orlando, and a 14-hour flight is hell enough without having to add a 2-6 hour additional flight and layover to connect somewhere. 

Experience from past trips has taught me that jetlag is my best friend. We’ll be awake by 6am and use that time to grab breakfasts at 24hr restaurants and visit shrines and whatnot in the early hours before things get too crowded. 

TL;DR, we have 5 days in Tokyo in February, already been to Ginza and Shibuya, staying in Ueno, using our jetlag to start each day around 6 or 7am.

Day 0: 

• Fly into Narita
• Keisei Skyliner to Ueno
• Food????
• Check into hotel near Ueno station
• Sleep

Day 1: Ueno

• Breakfast at 24hr Matsuya near our hotel
• Gojo Ten and Hanazono Inari Shrines
• Shinobazu Pond
• Tonkatsu lunch at Katuraku near Ueno Station
• National Museum of Western Art
• Tokyo National Museum
• Ameyokocho (Mode off, hard off, hobby off, book off and anything else we stumble upon. Hmu with Ameykocho dinner restaurant recs!)

Day 2: Asakusa

• Early breakfast at 24 hour ichiran near Ueno Station
• Senso-Ji area
• Asakusa Hanayashiki Amusement Park (We probably will only ride a couple of things, but as a theme park enthusiast, I need to visit Japan’s oldest amusement park!)
• Yakiniku lunch at Kirakuen 
• Dessert with a skyline view across the street at The Top Bar Hanabi
• Tokyo Skytree town 
  • Side note: Is it worh going up in Skytree? I feel like the skyline is incomplete without Skytree in it… and we just got a view at The Top Bar. We mostly are just going to Skytree for all the shops around it (Pokemon, Ghibli, Etc)
  • Recs for things around Skytree town?
• Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center for a free sunset/evening skyline view
• Dinner/evening plans ??? Probably Ameyokocho again because it's by our hotel lol

Day 3: PokePark Kanto

• PokePark Kanto (Backup plan: Sanrio Puroland if it’s too freezing cold or we can’t get PokePark tickets. I’ve been to Sanrio Puroland before and I absolutely adore it, but I’m willing to go solo later if needed to make the most of my husband’s short 5 days)
• Explore Akihabara in the evening (We don’t really have a plan here, open to suggestions)

Day 4: Yoyogi, Harajuku, Shinjuku

• Meiji Jingu, Yoyogi Park (open to recs on which station to get off at, especially if it’s freezing in February, we might not be up for aimlessly wandering around the huge park lol)
• Lunch at Harajuku Gyozarou
• Totti Candy Factory for giant cotton candy (don’t judge me)
• Wander around Harajuku a bit (any recs here?)
• Shinjuku??
• ???
• Omoide Yokocho around dinnertime

Day 5:

• Check out of Ueno hotel 
• ????
• Check in to hotel by Tokyo Disney
• After 3pm ticket to Tokyo DisneySea

Husband takes limousine bus from Tokyo Disney in the morning, and I stay solo in Japan for another week or so (exact plans still TBD)

Please let me know what you think, and if you have any tips for:

• Japan in February in general
• Experience with Zipair (bonus if you’ve flown from Orlando)
• Favorite restaurants (looking to add a yakitori place to our list!)

Maybe a weird request because “luxury” and “fashion” don’t always go with practicality.

I’m planning a trip to Japan next spring (my 4th time) and the average tourist walks about 20,000 steps a day in Japan. In the past, I’ve carried lightweight nylon backpacks. They weren’t super cute, but they got the job done. I left them mostly empty to have space for trash or purchases made throughout the day.

I need a bag that can carry a small water bottle (literally a 16oz children’s Owala so it’s not too bulky and doesn’t weigh me down), a compact umbrella and a few other small essentials. Japan is notorious for not having trash cans anywhere, so I know I’ll probably be carrying around some snack wrappers, empty disposable cans/bottles a bit. Does anyone have bag recs that can carry what I need, and won’t dig into my shoulders/be uncomfortable for walking for miles and still be cute?

Are there any luxury backpacks that don’t have super thin and/or chain straps that will dig horribly into my shoulders? It seems like the options for backpacks are either that or huge men’s backpacks that seem too big and impractical. And I guess I’m afraid of fatigue from any one-shoulder bag, but if one with a wide/comfortable strap exists, that might work too.

I’m looking at the LV high rise bumbag but I’m afraid it might be a bit too small for my needs. If anyone has one and knows how much it can hold, lmk!

TL;DR: looking for recommendations for a luxury bag that’s cute, can hold a small water bottle and compact umbrella, and still be comfortable to wear while walking 20,000 steps a day

The amount of LV, Chanel, Gucci, etc. I see on a daily basis is truly wild. Like I know rich people come to theme parks, and I know we have high-end stores and outlets here in Orlando… but why would you bring a bag that costs multiple THOUSANDS of dollars to a theme park?? You’re gonna walk ten miles in the sun with a heat index of 117° and 100% humidity and probably two thunderstorms a day in the summer, while carrying a LEATHER bag and no water bottle?? And when you ride rides, you gotta shove that bag into a little pocket or floor of the ride vehicle or shove it into a locker?? Be fr y’all. I HOPE these are reps because I can hardly think of anywhere worse to carry an expensive bag than a theme park in Florida in July.

As someone who has worked at theme parks here for over a decade, I always tell anyone who wants to visit: plan for a ten-mile hike in a storm in a rainforest. The air is so wet, you feel like you need to grow gills to be able to breathe. Advertisements are filmed at like 8am in January or February. You will be here at 2pm in the middle of July or August. Disney instagrammers live here and wear their cute outfits for a couple of hours, take pictures, and go home. Everything you see portrayed in ads or social media is a wildly different experience than what you're signing up for by coming here in the summer. I just don't want to see beautiful leather bags be utterly destroyed because ads/social media portrayed Florida as something other than the hot, wet, swampy hellscape that it is. If anything, go for a coated canvas bumbag and have your water bottle in the stroller or your partner's backpack. Plan for survival for the hottest, soggiest, longest hike of your life. Be comfortable and SAFE!

Does anybody else have a work bag that’s separate from the bags that they like to carry outside of work? It’s such a champagne problem, but I’m so tired of switching bags all the time 😩

I work at a theme park in Orlando, and the walk from the employee parking area to my workplace is a half a mile. So the bag that I bring to work gets carried in the sun and the rain and the humidity and whatever else for a minimum of a mile of walking every day. I have a lovely collection of mid-range bags (Coach, Kate Spade, etc) that I adore, but I’m cautious to bring any of them out in the Florida elements and/or don’t find them comfortable to carry for such a long distance on one shoulder. So my work bag is a low key kind of ugly lightweight nylon backpack. It holds everything I need comfortably and can survive the weather, but I never want to carry it outside of work.
I dream of having an office job someday where I can carry a cute work bag from my car into work without it being a whole hike 😅

What do y’all do? If I want to run errands after work, I need to bring a separate purse? I feel like I’m constantly losing things because I’ll leave something small in a pocket of a different bag accidentally. Or I switch bags so much, when I lose something, I have to try to remember what I wore that week and check all the pockets of multiple bags.

TL;DR looking for advice for how to easily switch between an ugly work backpack to a cuter purse for the evening/days off without constantly losing things

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I was at Bath and Body Works yesterday to stock up on some candles during their semi-annual sale and I LOVED their Cotton Candy Clouds body mist. Is it juvenile? Yes. Do I care? No. I love the smell of cotton candy. I didn't end up grabbing it because I know the longevity is nonexistent. Does anybody have any good cotton candy recommendations that actually last? I feel like this scent is mostly only available as cheap body mists that disappear immediately.

If you could only carry one bag for a whole year, what would you choose? What do you think is the most versatile bag that can be used for a number of occasions/seasons and hold just the right amount of stuff?

I sampled Burberry Her at Ulta and loved it. I got a more affordable dupe yall were raving about (pun intended, it’s called Rave Now Women) and thought that it was a perfect match. I loved how it smelled. But once I put it on (maybe I over sprayed a bit?) I could smell myself in the car and slowly throughout the day I started feeling more and more nauseous with every sniff. Like, physically sick to my stomach at the smell. Now I’ve started noticing that ambroxan smell in other perfumes and I can’t stand it. Anyone else struggle with this/can’t stand ambroxan?