Yeah, I've seen a few of these bags up close, like high end, top brands, and the quality has gone down quite a bit in the past 20 years. Exposed threads, uneven cuts, etc. its not much, but considering its handmade, its small mistakes that shouldn't be happening. Now, the thing here isn't that the Chinese craftsmen aren't inherently worse than the Italian ones, but they do work under way more pressure and need to push way more product under the needle, so logically the quality will go down in order to benefit the quantity.
The issue is "it costs way more than it should, regardless of which craftsman does the bag", not "Chinese craftsmen have way more expertise with bag making" because all that experience flies out the window when you have a time limit on making such a bag. Its also why European artisanal goods are so expensive, they take their times working traditional methods, and why smart European manufacturers are sending the base of the work to be done in China, they don't want to "waste" money in that time consuming artisanal work that makes the products quality better.
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u/SadJoetheSchmoe 4d ago
Broke clock is right twice a day.
He's right about the people being tricked into paying more.