Doomed to be puzzled this summer --concerning shopping and pink bags
I have been looking for all-cotton ragg socks, which as with any shopping search I make, goes everywhere and leads to nothing desirable. However, I happened across this lovely site, advertising Fake Hugo Boss All-cotton Socks, and naturally paused to get a feel for the popular culture which lost me years ago.
There are some very attractive messenger and handbags indeed -- rather out of my price range, even if fake ($400 for a fake Prada purse, even if a rather pretty one, really? It would be like buying a fake Mercedes Benz and leaving it in the Public Housing parking lot -- just asking for trouble.)
But here's the thing. I really must be an eccentric curmudgeon, because while there was a certain Prada bag I would have really loved to carry, there was one thing wrong with it -- and all the other bags I looked at. It had the label of the maker writ large on its side.
Even the most expensive stuff puts its label on the bag? Where everyone can see it? How tacky. I admit I don't notice much -- and don't run in the circles which care about designers, except the truly one-of-a-kind designs of art fairs) but surely, if you plan to spend thousands on a bag, you don't want to then give free advertising to the company everywhere you go? How in fact extraordinarily tacky. I believe that Yves St. Laurent was the first to deliberately start marketing to the masses, and put his logo on everything he sold with the high end market, though I remember my mother fulminating that she would never, ever buy anything with such an obvious appeal to mass marketing. (For a liberal, My mom could truly be a snob. hell, for a conservative, she could be a snob.
Those of you from other countries who run into high end people who dress "well", please tell me that taste exists somewhere. I mean, if I have to have a revolution, I'd prefer one for materialist reasons, but a revolution against bad taste also tempts me. Blame my mother's family. I'd send them all to re-education camps and make them learn that tradesmen's labels do not add cachet to people above trade. (And then I suppose I'd start arranging marriages for my nieces. Dear heaven, don't tell my friends I think like this!)
Or is it just that knockoffs put a big fancy label somewhere as a way of trying to pretend they're the original -- or to emphasize they're not?
There are some very attractive messenger and handbags indeed -- rather out of my price range, even if fake ($400 for a fake Prada purse, even if a rather pretty one, really? It would be like buying a fake Mercedes Benz and leaving it in the Public Housing parking lot -- just asking for trouble.)
But here's the thing. I really must be an eccentric curmudgeon, because while there was a certain Prada bag I would have really loved to carry, there was one thing wrong with it -- and all the other bags I looked at. It had the label of the maker writ large on its side.
Even the most expensive stuff puts its label on the bag? Where everyone can see it? How tacky. I admit I don't notice much -- and don't run in the circles which care about designers, except the truly one-of-a-kind designs of art fairs) but surely, if you plan to spend thousands on a bag, you don't want to then give free advertising to the company everywhere you go? How in fact extraordinarily tacky. I believe that Yves St. Laurent was the first to deliberately start marketing to the masses, and put his logo on everything he sold with the high end market, though I remember my mother fulminating that she would never, ever buy anything with such an obvious appeal to mass marketing. (For a liberal, My mom could truly be a snob. hell, for a conservative, she could be a snob.
Those of you from other countries who run into high end people who dress "well", please tell me that taste exists somewhere. I mean, if I have to have a revolution, I'd prefer one for materialist reasons, but a revolution against bad taste also tempts me. Blame my mother's family. I'd send them all to re-education camps and make them learn that tradesmen's labels do not add cachet to people above trade. (And then I suppose I'd start arranging marriages for my nieces. Dear heaven, don't tell my friends I think like this!)
Or is it just that knockoffs put a big fancy label somewhere as a way of trying to pretend they're the original -- or to emphasize they're not?