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IT bag: Definition
Replica IT bag: Hermes Birkin

What is “IT Bag” ?

Hermes Birkin and How to Spot a Replica Hermes Birkin

Birkin bag is belonged to Hermes, it was specially designed for Jean Birkin and was named after her family name – “Birkin“.  Birkin bag has some similarity with Hermes Kelly, but it is much larger and more casual than the latter, so this bag is very useful for those people who travel frequently. Besides, compared with Kelly bag, Hermes Birkin allows you to get more choices on colour and material. It has four different sizes: 25cm, 30cm, 40cm, 45cm and ninty kinds of leather materials. Among all handbags, Hermes Birkin is the most expensive “IT Bag”.

Important marks on Birkin bag: Every bag has letter year of manufacture, and it is stamped in a square underside of right belt. On the opening, there will be a grade logo, “Λ”  means that this bag is made of the leather of wild crocodile, however, “。。” means that the crocodile is raised by hand.

Letter Year of Manufacture

Leather of Wild Crocodile

Crocodile is Raised by Hand

How to spot a replica Hermes Birkin bag: You can tell a replica Birkin bag from four areas, one is the stitching, every original Birkin bag from france is hand-built by experienced craftmen and uses double saddle stitching. However, most replica Hermes Birkin handbags from China or sold online are sewed by machine.

Certainly, replicas are always cheaper than the original, especially those handbags that are sold online. For example, in some areas of China, making a calf leather Birkin bag only costs ￥800， but if mass production, ￥400 is enough.

Third, replica bags use bad quality leather materials. Hermes has built its own leather processing factory and TCIM dyeing factory, so Birkin handbags are made of the world’s best leather materials. Some online sellers claim that their AAA replica Birkin bags use the original leather from France, in fact, only just scrapleather remaining from France and Italia.

Fourth, hardware of Birkin bag from France is made of bronze, the bag’s logo hardware is platinum and each logo hardware is only used once, once a bag is finished,  the logo hardware will be replaced. However, hardware of replica Birkin bags is made of iron, some is nickel plated or copper plated. Compared with logo mold of original Hermes Birkin bag, generally, replica’s will be used many times until the logo can not be printed completely on the leather.

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