Kathryn_V | 06-01-2006 06:28 PM | I know what you mean about being over the designers... It is all starting to look the same... and the copies are looking more like the real thing every day!! It really makes your three hundred dollar bag look cheep and desperate. When the 13 year old in line two people away has the same purse as you.... there's a problem... when your driving by and the gal pushing two kids in the stroller has a nicer hand bag than you... you've got to ask your self... why am I paying top dollar for something any kid in town can sport??? What's the point??
It was one thing when the LV's were LU's and it was obvious... but the fakes are bold and exact copies now!!! the COACH C'c used to be G's... not any more!! they used to face the wrong way... but not now! Are any designers sacred???
Ohhh and I just have to share!!! and yes... Pixie comes in at the end!
You want real sin.... Brian and I celebrated our 9th anniversary of the day we met! and he gave me a sweet card and a cheesy little "Brian Express" Gift Card... He made it himself, it had cute little stuff on it, like an exp date of never, and a value of priceless, and so on....
Anyway... I held on to it for a couple of weeks and I finally decided on what I wanted... a shoulder bag! All my current bags have to be carried over the arm... ugh! They get soooo heavy! I had every intention of going Coach... but I could not fall in love with anything they had! And I was really trying! He kept saying... don't buy something just to be buying it... I don't want you to settle... so we went from store to store and nothing! I ended up buying a coach bag that I really did not like... Stupid!!!
Well I returned it 4 days later... Duh! And revisited a bag I had seen over at Bottega... I resisted the urge to tell hubby that I was in love with the bag because I know that their bags run from 300 to 2500 and I did not dare ask the price when we were in there the weekend before... but being there without the husband... I was feeling a bit more brave... so I peaked inside the pocket and saw that the one I really wanted was "only" 538.00:eek: I almost walked out.... but I bit my lip... called my hubby and told him that I had returned the coach bag... He said good.. he hated it! lol He then asked me to go back to Botegga and see if they still had that brown suede bag I was eyeing last weekend!:eek: and if they did... to get it!!!! I almost dropped my phone!~ I said... Honey... are you sure??? He simply said yes love, you deserve it! and then rushed me off the phone! lol
Well.... Can I tell you...$580.00 later I was grinning from ear to ear! its the very best purse I have ever owned! it has no label on it... no distinguishing marks really, aside from the signiture weave... but unless you know Bottega, you would not recognize it. And its pretty low key! But my god! the Quality is like nothing I have ever felt!!! and Its Pixie approved!!!
I took her into a few stores with me today!!! She fits right inside it!!! And is very comfy!!! But you should have seen the expression on Brian's face when he saw Pixies face pop out of my car payment... oh I mean new bag... lol he has been throwing those at me all week! lol
I am thinking that I am over LV myself... It all looks fake to me now... even my real stuff... From now on... I am so shopping on Material, Quality, Craftsmanship, and how it wears!! No more looks.... ( don't hold me to that girls;) ) This new bag is not a looker per say... but boy is it ever amazing! |