friends-of-mineral-town/blog/content/posts/015YSLCollegeBag.md

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title: "YSL Medium College Bag in Grey Goatskin with Gunmetal Hardware"
date: 2021-09-26T19:30:07-04:00
categories: [bags, yves saint laurent]
tags: [college bag, grey]
draft: false
image: "/images/yslmediumcollegestock.jpg"
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I carry this bag by its top handle so much that I've considered many times just leaving the chain off, but then I have to carry more than one object and I'm immediately reminded of how useful it is to be able to carry my things in a bag without the use of my hands. The goatskin leather makes this much more durable and hardwearing than Chanel lambskin, which the quilting is very reminiscent of. The full-width slip pocket on the back and the magnetic closure make this even more functional than a Louis Vuitton Pochette Métis in my opinion, which is another popular bag with a similar silhouette.

In recent years, YSL was rebranded to "Saint Laurent" and moved to California. This bag also got a small redesign update, not to remove the "YSL" monogram that's adorned a variety of products since its inception in the 60s, but to reposition it slightly higher so that the bottom of the monogram is no longer hanging off of the envelope flap/closure. I like the older version better.

I am lucky. There's no doubt about it. How else could one describe the situation I'm in? Not only do I have the privilege of being able to spend so much of my time reading about the quality and details of luxury leather goods just to deliberate over which of them I should consider adding to my wardrobe's collection, but someone actually loves me enough to not only look past what could only be observed as unhealthy obsessions with material objects, but is even willing to go so far as to actively indulge me in those obsessions!

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, my boyfriend bought me this purse. Of course, it's not a purchase he made completely independently, but these items are so expensive and designed in such specific ways with so many varying options for details, that buying one of these things for a fashion nerd like me would be akin to buying someone a new video card for their computer: certainly not impossible with enough time dedicated to researching compatibility, but so little room for error that there really isn't a reason to just ask what the person specifically wants, because the fact that any interest in supporting this at all exists means more than almost anything else.
develop/blog/posts (#4) fix(tag): lowercase feat(theme): dividing horizontal line between posts on lists feat(post): k680t images and links feat(post): hhkb images and links fix(images): cropped aj11cmft low bred fix(posts): spell checked style(posts): whitespace no more 80char line width limit on blog post files bc my text editors know how to word-wrap feat(posts): added stock photos fix(posts): whitespace feat(posts): jojo vans, hori mini pad, arizona superstars, k680t update(schedule): blog post feat(posts): 85hi and ysl college feat(post): neverfull fix(footer): line break make the site copyright block slightly more visually consistent across views feat(pagination): responsive styles - removed linkless ellipses between page numbers and next/previous links - hide first/previous/next/last text labels on smaller views - hide non active page specific links on even smaller views fix(about): stylized email to allow for linebreaks instead of one continuous whitespaceless string, the email address is broken up so that the text will flow properly on smaller views fix(footer): layout alignment add half width column class to nav and removed inline styles feat(styles): shrank skeleton's typography reduced heading sizes to make them more compatible with smaller displays refactor(config.toml): whitespace feat(permalinks): use post title, not filename hides the "ordering" prefix refactor(category): "input hardware" -> "hardware" feat(drafts): marked incomplete posts as drafts marked via hugo/md post headers note(schedule): textfile noting blog post queue order just for reference fix(post): typo in file name refactor(posts): rename md files with post order prefix purely for internal/developmental organizational purposes (because hugo decides post order based on post dates) draft(posts): a lot of empty files or notes Co-authored-by: steven-y-e <steven@mineral.town> Reviewed-on: http://irie.clinic.homo.casa/steven-y-e/friends-of-mineral-town/pulls/4 Co-Authored-By: steven <steven-y-e@noreply.localhost> Co-Committed-By: steven <steven-y-e@noreply.localhost> 2021-09-29 15:33:16 -04:00			`---`
			`title: "YSL Medium College Bag in Grey Goatskin with Gunmetal Hardware"`
			`date: 2021-09-26T19:30:07-04:00`
			`categories: [bags, yves saint laurent]`
			`tags: [college bag, grey]`
			`draft: false`
develop/blog (#6) feat(theme): post's featured image moved post's heading image urls into metadata header so that the featured images can be shown on post lists as well as article pages fix(styles): shrank fonts again noticed "Professional" in a header overflows horizontally so i had to make it smaller Co-authored-by: steven-y-e <steven@mineral.town> Reviewed-on: http://irie.clinic.homo.casa/steven-y-e/friends-of-mineral-town/pulls/6 Co-Authored-By: steven <steven-y-e@noreply.localhost> Co-Committed-By: steven <steven-y-e@noreply.localhost> 2021-09-29 16:24:48 -04:00			`image: "/images/yslmediumcollegestock.jpg"`
develop/blog/posts (#4) fix(tag): lowercase feat(theme): dividing horizontal line between posts on lists feat(post): k680t images and links feat(post): hhkb images and links fix(images): cropped aj11cmft low bred fix(posts): spell checked style(posts): whitespace no more 80char line width limit on blog post files bc my text editors know how to word-wrap feat(posts): added stock photos fix(posts): whitespace feat(posts): jojo vans, hori mini pad, arizona superstars, k680t update(schedule): blog post feat(posts): 85hi and ysl college feat(post): neverfull fix(footer): line break make the site copyright block slightly more visually consistent across views feat(pagination): responsive styles - removed linkless ellipses between page numbers and next/previous links - hide first/previous/next/last text labels on smaller views - hide non active page specific links on even smaller views fix(about): stylized email to allow for linebreaks instead of one continuous whitespaceless string, the email address is broken up so that the text will flow properly on smaller views fix(footer): layout alignment add half width column class to nav and removed inline styles feat(styles): shrank skeleton's typography reduced heading sizes to make them more compatible with smaller displays refactor(config.toml): whitespace feat(permalinks): use post title, not filename hides the "ordering" prefix refactor(category): "input hardware" -> "hardware" feat(drafts): marked incomplete posts as drafts marked via hugo/md post headers note(schedule): textfile noting blog post queue order just for reference fix(post): typo in file name refactor(posts): rename md files with post order prefix purely for internal/developmental organizational purposes (because hugo decides post order based on post dates) draft(posts): a lot of empty files or notes Co-authored-by: steven-y-e <steven@mineral.town> Reviewed-on: http://irie.clinic.homo.casa/steven-y-e/friends-of-mineral-town/pulls/4 Co-Authored-By: steven <steven-y-e@noreply.localhost> Co-Committed-By: steven <steven-y-e@noreply.localhost> 2021-09-29 15:33:16 -04:00			`---`

			I carry this bag by its top handle so much that I've considered many times just leaving the chain off, but then I have to carry more than one object and I'm immediately reminded of how useful it is to be able to carry my things in a bag without the use of my hands. The goatskin leather makes this much more durable and hardwearing than Chanel lambskin, which the quilting is very reminiscent of. The full-width slip pocket on the back and the magnetic closure make this even more functional than a Louis Vuitton Pochette Métis in my opinion, which is another popular bag with a similar silhouette.

			`In recent years, YSL was rebranded to "Saint Laurent" and moved to California. This bag also got a small redesign update, not to remove the "YSL" monogram that's adorned a variety of products since its inception in the 60s, but to reposition it slightly higher so that the bottom of the monogram is no longer hanging off of the envelope flap/closure. I like the older version better.`

			I am lucky. There's no doubt about it. How else could one describe the situation I'm in? Not only do I have the privilege of being able to spend so much of my time reading about the quality and details of luxury leather goods just to deliberate over which of them I should consider adding to my wardrobe's collection, but someone actually loves me enough to not only look past what could only be observed as unhealthy obsessions with material objects, but is even willing to go so far as to actively indulge me in those obsessions!

			Yes, ladies and gentlemen, my boyfriend bought me this purse. Of course, it's not a purchase he made completely independently, but these items are so expensive and designed in such specific ways with so many varying options for details, that buying one of these things for a fashion nerd like me would be akin to buying someone a new video card for their computer: certainly not impossible with enough time dedicated to researching compatibility, but so little room for error that there really isn't a reason to just ask what the person specifically wants, because the fact that any interest in supporting this at all exists means more than almost anything else.