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That you see one that suits you to a T.We are passionate about vintage All Weather Leather Made in the USA Dooney & Bourke handbags, wallets and other items which we sell in the Dooney section of our website. 'We hope you enjoy looking through the bags we've found and Go here to find out what drop length means and how we measure it. They are extremely high quality, made in USA, registered bags.ĭrop Length. We feel Dooney & Bourke bags from the 1980s and 1990s are the best bags you can find. We only sell authentic Dooney & Bourke leather handbags. Since there are so many knock-off designer bags out there, it pays to do a little homework before you buy.
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Such bags might be authentic but it would be difficult to authenticate them without a registration number. If a tag is completely ripped out, leaving only a few red and white threads, I am always suspicious.
If a tag is snipped but is mostly still there, it probably indicates that the bag was sold at an outlet store - it is likely authentic but might have been an overstock or slightly imperfect bag. Tags removed or snipped? Often we will see tags that are snipped or partially or completely torn out of the bags. As the company got larger, it no longer assigned individual registration numbers to each bag. This registration tag system was used when Dooney & Bourke was producing a limited amount of collections. In these assembled-overseas bags, there is a registration number on the back of the red, white and blue tag and the letter it stars with indicates the country where the bag was assembled. Instead there is often a (leather or cloth) tag underneath the red, white and blue tag that says where the bag was assembled such as the example above which shows a blue cloth tag that says 'Assembled in Costa Rica. Those bags have red, white and blue sewn-in tags that say Dooney & Bourke Inc. Some more recent bags (1990s) have been manufactured in the US but assembled elsewhere, such as Costa Rica. They say:Īnd they have a registration number on the back. The first sewn-in tags (1983-1984) were fairly large green rectangles sewn flat into the bag that said:Īfter 1985, the tags were red, white and blue and were sewn as tabs inside the bag in conjunction with a seam. Very early bags have no sewn in cloth regitration tags. To the best of my knowledge and by researching in my vintage Dooney & Bourke catalog collection, here's the scoop. There are some absolutes but some anomalies along the way also. So bear that in mind as you shop for authentic bags. Also those early bags, because they were not AWL bags, did not have the Duck Leather seal or the Brass Duck fob as these signify the waterproof aspects - like water shedding from a duck's feathers. Note that in the early 1980's before the AWL (All Weather Leather) bags went into production, the Equestrian bags, for example, were made of wonderful bridle leather but it was NOT waterproof. To help, authentic Dooney & Bourke items have some identifying features. But it only takes a few seconds to spot the difference in materials, workmanship and feel of the great Dooney & Bourke handbags, briefcases, totes, wallets and other items in the All Weather Collection.
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