I hate your fake designer bag

[OneTimeSBX]

Originally Posted by amycat412

on the flip side of this issue-- my mom bought a bag in a thrift store for $3. IT IS A LAMB BAG. My cousins and the adult daughters of her friends all said same thing when we saw my mom w the LAMB bag: "WHERE DID YOU GET THAT?!"

my mom went last week to the local goodwill and bought a trench coat with the tags still on it for 5 bucks.

it is burberry. that damn coat runs for $1500 online! and she could care less lol!

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by OneTimeSBX

my mom went last week to the local goodwill and bought a trench coat with the tags still on it for 5 bucks.

it is burberry. that damn coat runs for $1500 online! and she could care less lol!

I did the same thing a few years ago, except it was $9. I ended up selling it for over $200.

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by OneTimeSBX

my mom went last week to the local goodwill and bought a trench coat with the tags still on it for 5 bucks.

it is burberry. that damn coat runs for $1500 online! and she could care less lol!

My uncle owned a restaurant for years. There was a ladies trench coat that no one claimed from the coat check for a long time, so he asked several of his waitresses if theywanted it. The coat was too small for everyone else, so he brought it over to my house. The label --- Burberry. This was back inthe 80s, before knock offs were mass produced. I wore the coat for years and finally donated it when it looked "dated".

[barbino]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

My uncle owned a restaurant for years. There was a ladies trench coat that no one claimed from the coat check for a long time, so he asked several of his waitresses if theywanted it. The coat was too small for everyone else, so he brought it over to my house. The label --- Burberry. This was back inthe 80s, before knock offs were mass produced. I wore the coat for years and finally donated it when it looked "dated".

Love it---I worked at the Burberry store on Michigan Avenue in Chicago on weekends one Christmas holiday in the mid 80's (second job). We got the plaid kilts to wear, along with the pleated tuxedo-front shirts. When we were done, we got to keep the shirts. How strange--I never go downtown anymore, but we went past it & the other stores just last night and my husband asked me, "Didn't you work there for awhile?" I also worked at the Gucci shop for several months, which is how I got the position at Burberry's. Working at Marshall Field's (almost "The real Field's" - it had already begun to change somewhat) for several years helped alot in retail.

[LΩVE]

My take on designer bags:

a) Most of them are ugly to me. I buy bags that look good.
b)The point of a designer bag in most cases is to say "I am rich. I can afford this." So if you can't, really, what's the point?

I buy for my body. If it looks good, classy, and cute I'm buying it. Fashion is fun from an artistic standpoint, but I don't feel the need to blow a paycheck on a brand name.

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by LΩVE

b)The point of a designer bag in most cases is to say "I am rich. I can afford this." So if you can't, really, what's the point?

I think their point is so that they can pretend like they can afford it.

[XOMichelle]

Originally Posted by OneTimeSBX

my mom went last week to the local goodwill and bought a trench coat with the tags still on it for 5 bucks.

it is burberry. that damn coat runs for $1500 online! and she could care less lol!

Where is your mother shopping?!?! I need to go to that goodwill.

I have a few crazy cool real bags that I've gotten very cheap: 1) Burberry tote from the ChiO MSN list 6 years ago... it was free! 2)very real, new, beautiful Marc Jacobs bag that I got from my roommate's cousin's gay brother who works at Saks. 3) new Bulga bag, (I unwittingly talked the lady down in price at the beverly center!).

[OneTimeSBX]

Originally Posted by XOMichelle

Where is your mother shopping?!?! I need to go to that goodwill.

I have a few crazy cool real bags that I've gotten very cheap: 1) Burberry tote from the ChiO MSN list 6 years ago... it was free! 2)very real, new, beautiful Marc Jacobs bag that I got from my roommate's cousin's gay brother who works at Saks. 3) new Bulga bag, (I unwittingly talked the lady down in price at the beverly center!).

oh please, if u saw the goodwill she got it out of...we only went in there looking for clothes for a family our church adopted. i dont know how that coat got there lol!

[jojapeach]

Originally Posted by OneTimeSBX

oh please, if u saw the goodwill she got it out of...we only went in there looking for clothes for a family our church adopted. i dont know how that coat got there lol!

I know what you mean. My sis-in-law is a bargain shopping queen! She gets all kinds of designer clothes from Goodwill and consignment shops. She even scored a pair of $300 jeans for my niece for only $15. It's a gift that only a few are blessed with.