Wow! I had no idea Vera Bradley was so popular. My grad school is pretty small and not really a VB type of place.

There's always a boutique at Kappa Delta Conventions and the Vera Bradley table is huge; just mountains of the stuff. I'm not sure if it's discontinued items or what.

Those KD NM bags might have been gotten at a pretty nice discount since Patricia Miller has stayed close to her KD roots. I probably works out nicely for the company as far as free publicity goes.

Vera's huge here in western PA...on and off campus. Unfortunately, the campus bookstore sells only yucky knock-offs.

Why is it that knock-offs of other styles look fairly decent, but VB look-alikes are so awful???? Some of the colors and patterns are...um...strange...

its big here in FL too...back in the day, i used to think that vera bradley bags WERE sorority bags since I have never heard of VB and i only saw sorority girls with them. Now i know otherwise and I am obsessed!!:p:p

WOW! Vera Bradley! I just moved from North Carolina to Illinois and I forgot all about those. Now that I think about it, I haven't seen any here. When I was in NC I would see them everywhere I went. I promise there were VB bags EVERYWHERE. Personally, I can't stand them (maybe because my NC experience was overkill) but to each her own. I did an internship in Smithfield, NC and there was an outlet there. The ratio of VB bags to people was just crazy. If I had five bucks for every three I saw, my student loans will be paid in full right now.

I do think it is a regional thing. They are really big in the south and not so much in the northern states in which I have lived or visited recently. Northern women might like them but southern girls have definately cornered the market on them.

Eh. I know a few girls that have them, but not sorority girls necessarily. Personally, I think they're ugly...grandma-type bags.

i know
i, personally, hate vera. and uggs.
they are both hideous
i do own a northface though. and different non-ugg boots! :)

ditto

I go to a school in the SEC and it seems to be the fashion for sorority women. Of course next year there will be a totally different fashion coming in!

My mom hates most of my Vera bags...she calls them my "flower babies" :) She lives in Virginia Beach and Vera is pretty big there
Vera is not as popular out here in the Bay Area. I think the bookstores at Cal Berkeley and Stanford are Vera sellers.

I don't know about the University of the Pacific --they have a huge store that sells Vera a couple of miles up the road

:pi would go gay for vera bradley!

Vera is not big here, at least not with sorority women. The more popular label is Vineyard Vines, especially custom, chapter-specific designs.

Vera Bradley: Sororities
Croakies: Fraternities

I'm a grad student at Ball State and as a non-native Indiana person, for the first few months of school i was convinced Vera Bradley was the state mascot.

It's not just greek students, it's 90% of all females. It looks like her totes threw up on campus. :)

But I found out that VB HQ is just up the road in Fort Wayne, IN so that might have something to do with it.

And I won't knock it, in fact I'm buying a ticket to their warehouse sale in May!! :p

Vera is HUGE down in NORTH CAROLINA! even though i migrated from the midwest i Love love love VERA. JAva Blue is my all time fav

double ditto