Lovely! I let the airline gorillas handle my bags so no way would I ever buy such a lovely piece of luggage.

That is so cute! Only you would buy cream luggage. Haha! Actually I lent my carryon to my auntie recently and realized how old and horrible-looking it is (and heavy), so I am on the search for something a LITTLE nicer.

Lovely bag, Mtn. Robo, take a look at IT, eye tee, luggage which bills itself as the worlds lightest luggage. I have some that is at least five years old and has held up beautifully. Love mine.

Very cool and very reasonably priced, too! Thanks for the tip!

3katz, I usually check luggage too, but I travel a lot and I still like to have things I think are pretty! I had to get over the fact it would get dings. : )

Robo, mine is actually the reverse, saddle w cream, but I could not find that design in that colorway in a photo.

I am thinking of luggage lately because my son's luggage is broken and I was at a Hilfiger outlet and they had some I really liked.

That one is very cool! I'm definitely over black luggage. I hate my luggage looking like one of the crowd when it comes out on the belt.

Robo, you can find it for $86 on jet.com. Turns out I was wrong; DS doesn't need a new luggage, DH does. And he did not like this one (I married a Shaker, it would seem).

I have never had black luggage, but IKWYM! It is depressing after a while.

FYI, Robo Consumer reports rates Eagle Creek, Briggs and Riley, Kirkland and Tumi as the best luggage brands. Ratings on durability and maneuverability. ONly 6% of respondents valued appearance. (LOL! that is me!)

I am kind of liking the shiny hardsided ones, but they say they scratch. Delsey (very good ratings on Amazon) has a hard sided one with fluted sides, so less noticeable scratching. I am kind of liking these. I also like the expandable outside pocket. Really like the blue but prob Titanium for DH.

https://www.amazon.com/Delsey-Luggage-Expandable-Spinner-Trolley/dp/B008PSWX9A/ref=sr_1_1?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1503444150&sr=1-1&nodeID=15743251&psd=1&keywords=delsey+luggage

Ooh very nice! What are the advantages of hardsided vs soft sided?

Hardside is, of course, very durable. But it has no give if you are trying to squish a bunch of luggage pieces into, say, a car trunk.

PS reviewers also say they can crack, esp if not full. Not all brands

We all have Eagle Creek. All in greens (we received a Boyt set in green for our wedding and have just sort of kept with green for 25 years). Oh, wait, one kid's is blue, they didn't have green the day he really needed a new one LOL.

I have an older Delsey Helium 21' carry on that I bought about 5 years ago at TjMaxx. It has held up well and is a breeze to maneuver. Mine is purple, which is a nice change from black. Highly recommend!

I have one Lucas bag I bought at TJs. It is so light (carry on size), I can lift it over my head with one hand -- empty, of course. I do have my doubts about its durability and only hope when a wheel falls off it happens on the way home and not on the way to a vacation. I can just see myself with a three-wheeled suitcase. Hopefully it would be one in the front so I could tip it on the back two wheels, which is what I do a lot of the time anyway.

I am all about practicality when it comes to luggage, but do admire other people's stylish bags.

Another advantage of hard sided luggage is water resistance. Our soft sided luggage sat in an open cart on the tarmac at Charles De Gaulle in the rain before being loaded and everything was wet inside once we finally got it. My checked luggage now is hard sided with wheels, telescoping handle and colorful (leopard print!)

I was looking in the Tumi store for luggage for my daughter. The hard sided pieces really caught my eye and I asked the clerk about durability. Her comment was that they are perfect for carry on bags or when traveling in a car but she said they do tend to scratch and crack. I ended up buying a hard sided carryon and a fabric bag that she can check.

I travel a fair amount for work and have, over the years, used the Red Oxx Air Boss (soft suitcase-sized shoulder bag, made in Montana), a Victorinox carry-on sized roll-aboard, and lately, an Away hard-sided case. I will still occasionally use the Air Boss, depending on what I am bringing and how much airport walking I will have to do; it holds the most but it's also the one that doesn't roll. I keep the Victorinox in the attic now as a spare/loaner case. I primarily use the Away case now, which I like for its lightness and organizational features. Its big feature is the battery for charging, but I would have bought it without that and haven't really used it as I rely on an Anker charger. It doesn't seem to scratch visibly, but it's not a shiny finish either.

We need new luggage at my house and we have not bought any because I keep flip-flopping between the two shell options. It makes me feel like a complete idiot to dither over something pretty simple. I like the looks of hard and the function of soft. That would be a no-brainer for most people, but not for me. I want the shiny pretty choice, even though in my gut I know it's easier to deal with the soft sided kind for me (more flexibility and squish ability.) So we make do with what we have while my good angel and little devil duke it out.

::: psstt ... they are soooo shiny and pretty ... ooooooh! :::

: )

Oh Mtn, that's gorgeous!! I'm in the 6% luggage snob set like you which I got from my mother. I have a piece of her "hard" luggage from the 1940's, navy blue with tan trim. She even had her initials engraved on it, and the other pieces which I have no clue what happened to. The navy luggage is in tip top shape and has been used quite a bit. I still use it. :)

She bought my first set of luggage when I turned 18, and I did the same for my boys. Excellent gift for high school graduates.

Oakley, that sounds so pretty, and how nice to have an heirloom. My DDs love my luggage and always want to take it (I suppose I am supposed to use grocery bags, then?). I have an set of old alligator luggage I bought 20yrs ago, when it was "in", as a decor prop. I had to argue with my DD that it made NO sense to take that on her trip (it has no wheels).

LOL, Rita, I hope it makes you smile every time you use it! : )

That's great, Rita! What I like about them is they truly protect any fragile items you may have inside the luggage.