Here 'tis. The infamous purse. Please note that it was taken in the unflattering light of an office, and NO ONE looks good in office flourescent light. Also, note the complimentary topstitching and unusual foldover top with handles. This purse features an asymetrical accent seam, brass fittings, exterior zip pocket, phone and sunglasses pockets, and an adjustable shoulder strap for under-the-arm or hip lengths. Will accomodate a large paperback and a small water bottle.
If it sounds like I'm rationalzing, it's only because I am. There was actually nothing rational about this purchase. Zing went the strings of my heart.
7 comments:
As long as you get LONG use out of it -it is worth it. I alays like how the fashionistas rationale expensive purchases by diving them by the # of expected wears == shoes and coats and purses do very well if you divide by say 200 days a year! But those $595.00 jeans - um, you better work, sleep, and bath in them...
80 bucks isn't that bad, really. I don't think I've spent that much for a purse, but I have spent $40 for a purse that lasted me barely two months because it was made of some straw-like material. Sooo cute in the store but not worth it in the end. I still spend about $35 for purses that last me at least 2 years now and if you divide that up it equals 5 cents a day! (Yes, I'm one of those people but I do not buy $595 jeans).
Plus, it's GREEN. You can't go wrong with a green purse - enjoy!
I am pretty tired of buying "just okay" bags for $20 and then hating them later because they aren't right. I've determined that I need to carry this bag for at least 4 years to make it pay off. I do love it that much though. And it is marveously GREEN. Happy sigh.
$595 jeans? My touche gets rashy just thinking of it.
True story: we went to Maine last summer and at dinner one night the waitress accidentally spilled warm butter sauce all over the younger-than-her-date blondie at the next table. The waitress scrambled to get something to clean her up with. Blondie looked at me and asked if I knew how to get butter out of cashmere. Um, I don't even own cashmere! Then she started whining about her ruined $700 jeans to the manager, to me, and to anyone else who would listen. I felt so bad for the waitress who's summer salary might just cover the cost of the jeans.
Honestly. If your jeans won't hold up to a shot of Spray N Wash, they're no good, no matter how good they make your butt look or how much you pay for them.
Here's the opposite story - a friend of mine's daughter got sick to her stomach in her friend's car. My friend dumped out the contents of her purse and let her kid throw up in it. That is straight up. I don't know if I'm at a point where I'd let a kid puke in my $80 purse, but it's a level of behavior I aspire to.
See in a $20 purse there'd be no question of whether you'd let her puke in your purse! I guess there's something to be said for buying cheaper purses - you're always ready in case someone gets sick.
What was funny about the blondie was that she kept commisterating her pain and suffering of ruined expensive clothes with me. I shop at Target and Kohl's and ocassionally Macy's. I don't exactly look like someone who knows how to launder cashmere and expensive jeans. (Plus I don't eat lobster so my chances of getting butter sauce spilled on me are slim). Mike was like, "stop talking to her. You're making it worse!"
Really. What could you say? "Oh yeah, when the server dumps lobster on my cashmere sweater. I hate it when that happens." Or, the old Texas standby, "Well, bless your heart."
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