Educating My Husband on the Finer Points of Handbag/Wallet Coordination.

by Teri on October 24th, 2007

Am I the only one who insists that her wallet match her handbag? I mean, they can at least coordinate. But clashing is a no-no. I had to spend a few minutes educating my very thoughtful and generous husband as to why I now need yet another handbag and wallet.

You see, hubby thought he was being extra nice. He had a long day where he had to drive by my favorite outlet center. As we have been looking for something special from The Bombay Company (can you believe they are closing???), he decided to stop in. Needless to say the outlet store had already closed, but he happened to notice this bag that I have been drooling over in the window of Dooney & Bourke. Just look at this fabulous Giraffe print:

Guess what? He bought it for me! For no real reason, just knowing that I was having an awful day and as it was right there staring at him, he snatched it right up. It is gorgeous!

Being such an even more thoughtful honey, he stopped into the Coach outlet too, just to see what they had. He said that he remembered me complaining that the wallet I was currently using was simply too small, and thought he would get a jump on Holiday shopping and save it. But he caved and thought he had the pattern right, so he picked up this fabulous oversized wallet for me too.

This is one of Coach’s Signature Bleecker Signature Checkbook Wallet. Gorgeous! And I love it. But… The print does not exactly match the print of my current Coach bag and I told him that I would now have to have one of the Bleecker bags, in the Khaki/Coal Black color pattern. I was not being ungrateful, and he could not understand. He thought it coordinated fine and was so thrilled at his generosity (as was I), so he suggested that I use the Coach wallet with the Giraffe bag.

Oh my! I had to gently tell him that it wasn’t going to happen. While I thought I could pull off a plain dark brown leather wallet with it, even though I was really longing for a matching Giraffe print to use with the Giraffe bag, using the Coach wallet with the Dooney & Bourke bag was a HUGE no-no.

After a few minutes of explaining and actually demonstrating, he understood. He hesitated for a bit, but then handed me his Am Ex and told me to order the Giraffe print wallet - but that I would need to wait on the Coach bag. I wasn’t complaining!

I thanked him over and over, but really felt bad about the whole situation - just a bit. He didn’t need to buy me either item, and these are not just $29 bags from Macy’s. But seriously, I could not bring myself to using both prints at the same time!

At least he understands now! And I can look forward to Christmas knowing what I should be getting! ;)

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