Dear Emily bag,
It’s been a long year since I first received you as a present for Mother’s Day. I coveted you, as I saw you on many a friend and celebrity’s arm. When I used you I was giddy. You looked like a purse, yet you were waterproof, well-insulated and had many a pocket that I happily filled.
It was unfortunate when things started to go wrong early on in our relationship. I don’t know why, but all of a sudden your strap started to rip and fray. I tried to mend and glue you back together, but it didn’t work. So I had to take you back. I waited a month for your replacement, ready to start anew. However, your cousin of same size, shape and color treated me the same. Her strap broke and her inside pocket leaked. Disappointed, I perservered. For $150, I figured I could make our relationship last. I stuck by you through wet wallets and soggy diapers.
But two months ago, things got worse and I returned you once more. The storekeeper at my favorite store gave me crazy eyes for bringing you in again, but she couldn’t dismiss my arguments of shoddy craftsmanship. By a stroke of luck, and maniacal comparison tests, there was yet another new version of you available for me at the store to take home. You had been revamped. Different stitching on the strap! Better buckles and latches! The storekeeper and I hugged and parted ways. I hoped not to have to traipse through her glass doors again.
Now, though, I have to reject you once and for all. Your third cousin, once-removed, in pewter is now in tatters. Your strap, like your relatives’ is ripping, and your beautiful, once shiny and pristine body is now covered with flaky scars.Â
Some things don’t look good “broken in.”
I saw this happen to my friends’ pewter Emily bags, but I never thought that it would afflict me as well. But it has, and now it is the final straw. I must reject you, Storksak Emily bag, for good. As much as it pains my fashion-savvy self, I must turn to other brands. Perhaps they can help me find a new bag in time for Mother’s Day because Emily, we’re through.
Sincerely,
Self-Made Mom
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I got the Emily in pewter last September and the same thing happened to the strap, I got it at NM and I haven’t tried to exchange or retunr it because it was a long time ago. But I have to agree its a beautiful bag and its a shame the quality is so poor.
P.S. I saw it for the first time in your blog and I had to have it.
You send up the Bat signal, we answer!
This year we’re loving the new metallic whipstitch leather bags from Nest. (They’re on our Mother’s Day gift guide.) A little more than $150 – more like double that – but they totally rock.
I had the same issue with TWO Emilys. Email Storksak and send them pictures, they are great adn will let you return the bag for credit towards another bag (or another Emily). They have great customer service!