Briefcase porn thread - Page 54

Originally Posted by yoshii 


hmm...nope, still nothing

Originally Posted by luk-cha 


the big prada tag on the bottom of the red one might be a clue

Originally Posted by yoshii 


hmm...nope, still nothing

Originally Posted by ginlimetonic 


I know, Prado!

Originally Posted by yoshii 


hey! that's what google turned up for me as well!!
I've only ever seen a handful of Prado's around (not the Toyota), much more exclusive than the Prada's i see everywhere

Originally Posted by luk-cha 


you get what you pay for la!!

Originally Posted by rach2jlc 

Two beautiful SAB pieces (and compared to their "branded" brethren on the site) a decent price. $1230 for the brief and $1500 for the holdall (again, not cheap, but considering ferragamo will charge $1800-2500 for poorly made crap...)

Originally Posted by luk-cha 


both od these are nice - dunhill had some nice trad made bridle bag a few seasons back, have you seen them??

Originally Posted by rach2jlc 


I haven't seen them in person, but may go take a look as there are several large Dunhill stores near me.

My issue with Dunhill is that they have so many lines, some of which are very nice (like the bridle cases mentioned here), others of which are really abysmal crap, with tacky patterns to the fabric/leather, cheap leathers, glue showing on the edges, really cheap hardware, and icky linings. It's hard to weed them out and the range from low to high is so extreme I largely stopped looking to Dunhill as a "go to" brand.

That being said, they DO know how to make nice stuff, when they want to do so. It's just that it's hard to see sometimes and so they've fallen off my radar. The past 3-4 times I've been in a Dunhill store it's been very disappointing.

Originally Posted by kolecho 


Dunhill has Made in Italy and Made in England for bags AFAIK. You know where the good stuff is made.

Originally Posted by rach2jlc 


You can still have a low quality, glued together bag made in Italy or England. You can also have a well made bag constructed in China (the older Samsonite Black Label or Lambertson Truex bags, mostly made in China, were great bangs-for-buck.)

Where it's made doesn't matter as much as what they make it WITH. A lot of Dunhill is not well made; glued together, low-quality leathers, bad lining, and cheap hardware. I've given the bags thorough "goings over" on many occasions; there are four Dunhill flagship stores within an hour of me and about 15 smaller Dunhill store-in-stores.

Some bags/leather goods are nice, but like I said, so many were crap for the $$$ that I largely stopped looking. I may give them another perusal and perhaps the last season or two have seen a commitment to putting out nicer stuff across-the-board, but in the past five years... of their many lines, some are simply not that great and you'd never even give them a second glance if it didn't have "DUNHILL" written on it.

Originally Posted by kolecho 


No need to get all philosophical. Go have a look. The MiE Dunhill is a different beast from the MiI ones.

Originally Posted by rach2jlc 

Two beautiful SAB pieces (and compared to their "branded" brethren on the site) a decent price. $1230 for the brief and $1500 for the holdall (again, not cheap, but considering ferragamo will charge $1800-2500 for poorly made crap...)