Handbags

[handygal2]

Check out this article. The "rich and famous" are now favoring handbags that are much less costly.

http://nyp.st/1HtDDMo

[cotto22]

Somehow I doubt as if they will be shopping on the Q, buying GILI, Tignaello or Dooney bags anytime soon, however! As I become a more mature person, both in age and in character, I have very little interest in what so-called celebrities purchase, wear, or do. They are just people with a ton of money and a lot of time, very little judgment.

[millieshops]

@cotto22F Scott Fitzgerald had it right -  the rich are different from the rest of us - they have money.

As for time and good judgement - I think that's probably spread around among the rich at the same rate as it is in the general population.

[Deanie]

I think that your premise is spot on.  I read another article that indicated that in the new ramped up class warfare that the group that carries Birkins at 10,000 a pop, was keeping a much lower profile.  My instinct is telling me it is more about fear than about conscience.

[ChynnaBlue]

I'm just nowhere near wealthy enough to be okay with spending $10,000 on a handbag.

[stevieb]

I'm neither rich nor famous, and while I used to covet one of these bags, now, well, not so much... They were a place in time and time marches on. Besides, every designer under the sun has now created their version of this bag. Knockoffs aside, a reasonable facsimile of the bag can be had for a lot less money. 

[millieshops]

@ChynnaBlueSeems to me you're part of a huge crowd.

Of course, I could do it -  as long as I didn't care whether I paid the rent or the car or ate food once in a while.

Then again, wouldn't carrying a Birkin reveal the true worth of the rest of my wardrobe?  Kind of like painting one room in the house makes the rest start to look shabby!

[faeriemoon]

I guess I don't understand the desire to be conspicuous.  It has always seemed kind of tacky to me.

Some people try so hard to look important, but end up just looking silly.

[1Professor]

Anyone who is now disenchanted with their Birkin because it is SO not on trend can send it my way.

[stevieb]

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@1Professor wrote:

Anyone who is now disenchanted with their Birkin because it is SO not on trend can send it my way.

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Prof... dahhhling... @1Professor... I've got simply scads of them dahhhhlinng... Will send a few out out to you on the PJ... but really, dahhhhling, they've become so de classe... so not outre, dahhhhhling, why, they've simply become, well, 'Kardashian'...