Chanel Bags Pawnshop Philippines

Here at N-Cash, Chanel bags are easily convertible to cash. We are the original pawnshop in Manila that accepts Chanel hand bags as loan collateral. And up to now, compared to other pawnshops and traders of designer bags, we still offer the highest appraisal for all Chanel hand bags during actual inspection. Pawn a Chanel bag and cash is released in minutes. That’s an N-CASH guarantee.

A Brief History of Chanel Bags

Coco Chanel is credited as saying, “Fashion changes, but style endures.” The same can be said about her legendary collections of handbags, first invented in the 1920s for women who went against the grain and defied the previous expectations of society. In a way, her fashion creations weren’t just trendy – but defiant. Here’s a brief history behind the Chanel handbag, which is known and loved by women around the world today.

The Chanel Flap Bag: First Born in the ’20s

Before Coco Chanel made handbags, she was a hat designer. She opened her first store in Paris in 1910, and a few years later began designing clothes for women.The handbag was born in 1929 – right before the stock market crash, mind you – by her daily observance of the “pack bags” soldiers would wear during World War I. These bags were typically fastened around their waists, so that they could be hands-free.Coco decided to add a flap to the bag, which at the time, was held like a clutch as it wasn’t socially acceptable for women to wear bags on their shoulders. The flap covered the contents on the inside (zippers were not big during this time) and prevented those contents from spilling out.Her signature leather quilting was purportedly inspired by jackets she saw male stable hands (as in, horse stables) wear. She was fond of the quilting, and so decided to incorporate that into her bags.Today, the Chanel bag is made from either lambskin or caviar leather.

Chanel’s Brief Hiatus from the Fashion World

After creating the flap bag, the great Depression hit the US (and the world) and soon after, World War II began. Coco Chanel would take a brief hiatus from fashion (technically, approximately twenty years) before returning again in the 1950s.She officially closed business in 1939, when France declared war on Germany. She would reopen in 1953.

The Handbag’s Return: February 1955

When the flap bag was released in 1929, it was still a “handbag” because it wasn’t socially acceptable for women to carry a bag on their shoulders (oh, how times have changed!)Chanel also lined the inside of the bag in burgundy leather because when she was an orphan (her father put her in an orphanage at a young age), she had to wear a uniform of the same color.She would re-introduce the flap bag in February 1955 and rename it the 2.55, representing the numerology behind the month and year of the reissue. This was her comeback declaration, as World War II had halted her creativity and growth in the fashion marketplace.The 2.55 was not the same “flap bag” as eras past. With the ’50s came a change of times, and women were beginning to wear bags on their shoulders. Coco Chanel, always a forward-thinking woman, added a strap to the 2.55 so that women could hold it or wear it on their shoulders.

The Boy Bag

While easy to assume so, the Boy bag was not inspired by Boy George. Rather, it was inspired by Coco Chanel’s lover, Boy Capel, who supported her entrepreneurship in 1910 when he helped her to open her first store in Paris.The bag was released in 2011, and features the interlocking C lock, quilted leather design, and updated details such as only one compartment, a lighter feel and subtle, casual touches. Plus, you can purchase the Boy bag in wild colors like highlighter green.We can only assume that the Chanel company wished to pay homage to the man who supported Chanel in an era when women were not business owners. While we don’t know much about Boy Capel, we can assume that his confidence in Chanel was unlike any other man she had met up until that point, and perhaps without him, we would not have the legacy of Coco Chanel today.One can only think, would there have been a Chanel without a Boy?

The 2.55 Reissue

In 2005, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 2.55 bag released in February 1955 by Coco Chanel, head designer Karl Lagerfeld relaunched the 2.55 and titled it “Reissue.”The Reissue looks and feels exactly like the original 2.55, including the original mademoiselle lock.

The Interlocking CC Lock

The original 2.55 flap bag lock (which shuts the bag to prevent contents from spilling out) was a simple twist and lift. It was called “mademoiselle” because Chanel never married. This is the proper title to address an unmarried French speaking woman.When Karl Lagerfeld stepped in as head of design for Chanel, he reimagined the 2.55 flap bag with a new iconic look: two interlocking C’s to create a brand new lock. This new lock debuted in the 1980s, giving Chanel a new edge in fashion.Today, the Chanel brand is easily identifiable for this interlocking C design. The interlocking C’s are used as logos on bags and for jewelry designs (like earrings and necklace pendants), and for pattern inspiration on clothing and accessories.

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