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How To Spot if Your Louis Vuitton Bag is Real or Fake.
April 19, 2021
1. LEATHER TRIM COLOR
The authentic LV bags leather trim color should be rich tan color especially on the leather handles and trim.
Meanwhile, the fake LV bags basically has a pink or orange tone color and if you touch the leather with your hand, it feel stiffer, not as soft as the real leather bags. The worst case on fake leather bags is they even use plastic as materials.
2. SHELL PATTERN NEAT AND SYMMETRICAL
The authentic LV bags for monogram (shell pattern) – The classic LV logo should be symmetrical and please note, for letter L should be lower than the V.
Other important information is please look at the placing of monogram pattern. If you look at the pattern diagonally, the order of one strip should be a fleur-de-lis, a circle, another fleur-de-lis, then the LV logo.
The Maison logo usually writes “Louis Vuitton Paris” in two lines
The letter of fake LV bags is usually are wonky and not perfectly aligned
3. HARDWARE & INTERIOR DETAILS
The authentic LV bags for hardware- please focus on the zipper, the zipper must have company logo, if not that is possibility not real.
Hardware logo have to be crisp, even and centrally placed
The hardware for real LV bags is brass. Fakes nowdays are so advanced in making crafted hardware, they do so well so it seems near to original bags. So you have to make sure all pieces of a certain type of hardware on the bag match especially the zipper and each rivet.
4. DATE CODE
The authentic LV bags must have DATE CODE for sure! please look carefully and thoroughly because the date code are sometimes very hard to find since they’re tucked within the lining, depend on different type model bags.
Date code – letters and numbers are embossed to note where and when the bag was made.
In some cases, the date codes are stamped into the lining.
5. STITCHING
The quality of the stitches, alignment of stitches, the number of stitches and the color of the thread can all indicate whether a bag is real or fake. Please look at details in placement and make sure they are all aligned.
6. COMPARISON
The last thing you can define wheter your LV bags is authentic or not by comparing the bags with bags online. Search for the reference number of your bags then you can find the same model of your bags through internet. Make sure you compare all details, inside and out because they can mean a lot, particularly if you are only looking at a photo of an item. However it is recommended that you go to the proffesional place like Jewel Cafe who know how to deal with the authentic bags or to be save please purchase the bags at registered and well known store because it high possibility the bags is auhentic.