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Real vs. Fake

As you can probably tell by my feedback, I am a handbag addict! Recently, I purchased my very first Balenciaga handbag. I loved it so much, I just had to buy another. While searching for the “perfect” bag, I was appalled by the number of fake bags currently listed (and being sold) on ebay. During my search, I learned several ways to tell a fake bag from a real one, and I’ve decided to share some of that information with other ebay users. I’m not an “expert”, and I’m sure I don’t know everything there is to know, but if you pay attention to some of the details I mention here, it just might end up saving you hundreds, even thousands of dollars!.

One of the reasons Balenciaga handbags are so popular is because they are made from some of the softest, thinnest, and most lightweight leather available. Once you’ve touched a Balenciaga handbag, you will be instantly “hooked”! The leather is very thin, but extremely durable. The type of leather used by Balenciaga is a very distressed looking type of leather. Every bag has a unique appearance. You’ll find lines, wrinkles, folds and smooth spots all over the bag’s body. No two Balenciaga bags look identical.

Most of the fake bags are made from a very inexpensive leather which has a shiny and stiff appearance to it. The leather on the fake bags looks more “cracked” than distressed. The tassels that are connected to all of the zippers should be just as soft as the bag’s leather. They should hang loosely, and feel like velvet in your hands. The tassels on most fake bags are stiff and hard, and do not hang loosely. Below are a couple of pics of a fake Twiggy bag. Look closely at the bag’s appearance. See how shiny it is? An authentic Balenciaga bag doesn’t have this much shine to the bag. You’ll also notice that the bag’s material appears more “cracked” rather than distressed. Almost as if those lines were intentionally put there:

From http://www.fashionaccessoryforum.com/

REAL Balenciaga tag, from an 07 Marine City bag:

BACK OF TAG, notice how the serial number matches on front & back.

FAKE METAL TAG:

Wrong imprint, no black stitching across the top, serial number doesn’t match bag/exist, stitching is awful & uncentered, etc

REAL Metal Rivets, from an 07 Marine City:

REAL Bale, from an 07 Marine City:

The bale should always have the oval shape, as shown in the picture. Alot of fake bbags have a “squared bale”, and the connection of the wire (that wraps at the end of the oval) is not formed correctly. Fakers are finding a way around this being a tell-tell sign, by hiding the bale part of the bag, or taking off the shoulder strap all-together.

In addition to the fact that extra tassels are NEVER rolled up in a circle, the hanging string from an authentic paper tag should always be BLACK… never white string.

FAKE bag:

Rolled tassels, mirror wrapped in plastic, white string on the “Balenciaga” tag… among other things

Tags

• – For Balenciaga bags with metal tags, the serial number should ALWAYS be the same on the front of the tag and on the back, leather side. For example on the City above, notice it has serial # “115748″ matching on the front metal tag, and back side.
• The back of a Balenciaga tag can always be flipped up, to be read RIGHT SIDE UP.
• The back of a Balenciaga tag will have additional numbers after the serial number that coordinates with the style of the back, so in our tag example above, the numbers “496393″. These numbers will vary from style to style and year to year (unlike the style serial number that stays constant from year to year…). HOWEVER, these tags should never end an a indicator with a series of “666″s, this is prodominantly used on fake bags.
• There is always black stitching across the top of the Balenciaga tag inside of the bag.
• The inside bag lining should be BLACK… not the same color as the bag.

Rivets

• – Rivets are the flat circle areas on the underside of the handles.
• – Rivets vary from the older bags to the newer generations, however an example of the new generation of rivets is shown above. For mid season 05 bags and newer, there should be a notch on either side that is proportional to the rivet. If you study the pictures closely, you can see the angle and grain of an authentic rivet – which stands apart from most faked rivet.

BALES

• Bales are the metal oval pieces that connect the shoulder strap to the metal hook that connects to the bag. If looking at a shoulder strap, you have in order “bale”, “hook”, “o-ring” to make the connection.
• Fakers often times have squared bales, which look more as a rectangle.
• Pay attention to the way the metal wraps at the end of the bale, right before the hook. This metal should wrap around approx. 1.5 times on itself and appear constant with all bbags that have shoulder straps.

Leather Texture

• Balenciaga’s unique leather is what sets their bags apart from other brands and give the bag its unique character. Seeing is believing, and this leather texture can definately be noticed in person, but if all you have to determine for authenticity are pictures, there still are Balenciaga leather characteristics to keep in mind.
• Often times, fake bags will look very waxy and plastic-y in nature. Authentic Balenciaga leather has a texture that varys from bag to bag, in general – no two bags look alike!! Bags can have alot of veins running through the surface, or a smoother surface that appears pillow soft, but in essence there should be some depth to the leather.
• Take the example of our authentic Marine City above, and the fake brown bag – if you look at the two bags, you can start to see how the Marine leather exhibits its own character, while the fake bag appears flat and lifeless.

But really?…. If you see these – RUN AWAY!!:
(Otherwise known as “clear signs we have a fake in our midst…”)

• – Tassels rolled in a circle!! Balenciaga sends extra tassels in a flat clear plastic packge, that is folded up on itself, if this package has been opened for whatever reason, you may find auctions or listings that have tassels laying loose inside of a plastic package, but they NEVER come in a tightly wound circle… as shown on our fake example above.
• A WHITE string that the Balenciaga tag is hanging from… Balenciaga uses a BLACK string for the one hanging tag that USUALLY comes just laying inside a zippered pocket of the bag, but sometimes can be seen hanging from the front.
• A cutesy color name that is “supposedly” given from Balenciaga… that is just not the case. As fun as it sounds, Balenciaga does NOT give their color names cutesy names like “Perfectly Peach”… in fact, they are given French names like “Vert Gazon” that must then be translated back into English if you’re not using the actual Balenciaga given name. The names even translated tend to be serious and straight forward, Grass Green, Marine Blue, Steel Gray, etc… You get the idea.
• – Balenciaga DOES NOT put a tiny metal nameplate on the FRONT of the bag??? Their entire moto line has either a metal tag or leather tag on the inside with an indictation to the style serial number, etc. There should not be a tag on the front that says anything really… but alot of times you’ll see them that say “Balenciaga Italy” or “Balenciaga Paris” on little metal tag on the front?… Run away – really.