What your designer bag says about you

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I adore my Aspinal of London bags precisely because so few people know of them.

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Anonymous wrote:I adore my Aspinal of London bags precisely because so few people know of them.

https://www.aspinaloflondon.com/leather-handbags/view-all-bags

Love them, but they do resemble Kate Spade bags (but 3-4 times more costly).

I want a marmalade bag.

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Anonymous wrote:I adore my Aspinal of London bags precisely because so few people know of them.

All the uk knows at least. The queen puts her aspinals out there all the time

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Anonymous wrote:Lo and sons?

Who?

You're a consultant. Or someone else who travels (traveled?) like 200+ days out of the year. You may carry 2 laptops. You have designer bags at home, but no way are you messing with digging through a big open NF or similar when you're trying to get from the client site to the airport and through security in record time. No time for form over function. Keep it moving people!

Lol yeah these bags are huge among strategy consultants! I think it also helps that the OG bag got its start among them, I think because the founders’ sons were consultant types with mbas and used to marketing them to their peers and mba classmates.

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Liberty London tote?

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Anonymous wrote:I usually carry something handmade I bought at a fair trade store or similar. I don’t really care what that says about me.

It says you want to be seen as “above it all” and have to mention it’s from a “fair trade store” while shopping at WF.

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Anonymous wrote:Lo and sons?

Who?

You're a consultant. Or someone else who travels (traveled?) like 200+ days out of the year. You may carry 2 laptops. You have designer bags at home, but no way are you messing with digging through a big open NF or similar when you're trying to get from the client site to the airport and through security in record time. No time for form over function. Keep it moving people!

Lol yeah these bags are huge among strategy consultants! I think it also helps that the OG bag got its start among them, I think because the founders’ sons were consultant types with mbas and used to marketing them to their peers and mba classmates.

Ah. That explains why every girl in my law school class who had a professional pre-law job had an OG.

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Anonymous wrote:Tumi Backpack --- overworked attorney mom of toddlers who doesn't have time to care? I need an upgrade. I have the $$ but not the time or fashion sense to figure out what the upgrade should be... lol

On point. Tumi backpack says I’m busy and I’m tired and I am an adult wearing a backpack because it’s easier in my back than a tote. I need an upgrade but I’ll probably just buy another tumi backpack because I don’t know where to begin looking for a decent handbag.

I've found my people!

I wear a leather backpack because I need stuff (young kids) and both hands free. Crossover types where putting too much strain on my shoulder/neck and Plus they would fly forward knocking into my toddler whenever I bent forward to help in the bathroom. So backpack was the practical solution. But it is a pretty awesome backpack and I get compliments at least weekly from 20something college student baristas to older men.

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Anonymous wrote:Tumi Backpack --- overworked attorney mom of toddlers who doesn't have time to care? I need an upgrade. I have the $$ but not the time or fashion sense to figure out what the upgrade should be... lol

On point. Tumi backpack says I’m busy and I’m tired and I am an adult wearing a backpack because it’s easier in my back than a tote. I need an upgrade but I’ll probably just buy another tumi backpack because I don’t know where to begin looking for a decent handbag.

I've found my people!

I wear a leather backpack because I need stuff (young kids) and both hands free. Crossover types where putting too much strain on my shoulder/neck and Plus they would fly forward knocking into my toddler whenever I bent forward to help in the bathroom. So backpack was the practical solution. But it is a pretty awesome backpack and I get compliments at least weekly from 20something college student baristas to older men.

... so what is the backpack that gets you all these compliments?

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Marc Jacobs?

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Anonymous wrote:Longchamp

Do people still wear these? I think sahm who uses it as a diaper bag now because she had one when she was in college in an east coast city 15 years ago.

Serious question—do you go out in public ever? I see Longchamp totes all over the place, from Metro to shoppers on 5th Avenue to playgrounds to Rasika.

+2 the Longchamp totes are absolutely everywhere. I think they’ve moved past “trend item” and into “unobtrusive staple” category. Kind of like Uggs at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:Longchamp

Do people still wear these? I think sahm who uses it as a diaper bag now because she had one when she was in college in an east coast city 15 years ago.

Serious question—do you go out in public ever? I see Longchamp totes all over the place, from Metro to shoppers on 5th Avenue to playgrounds to Rasika.

+2 the Longchamp totes are absolutely everywhere. I think they’ve moved past “trend item” and into “unobtrusive staple” category. Kind of like Uggs at this point.

+1

Before covid, it was the basic tote for commuters.

Personally, I prefer my Lo & Sons OG since I often carry two laptops.

Nonetheless, I still have an adorable Longchamp zipper pouch purchased in Paris nearly 30 years ago. I tuck it inside my larger tote when traveling.

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Anonymous wrote:I usually carry something handmade I bought at a fair trade store or similar. I don’t really care what that says about me.

My last purse was a handmade fair trade one and it ended up being awful. The interior lining was not tightly fitted enough to the purse so that little things would get caught in the wrinkles of the lining and I would think I had lost whatever it was. And the natural dye ran when it got wet and everything in my purse ended up sort of ruined. I was sad because it was cute but I had to trash it which didn’t end up being very environmental of me. My replacement purse was from a smaller artisan leather works type place so I’m hoping not made by sweatshop labor but someplace with better quality control.
It does always surprise me that that these places that charge many hundred or thousands for a bag can’t guarantee that they meet fair labor standards. Would it really cut into their bottom line to pay the worker sewing the bag a little more? Maybe some of them do, but I never see that information in a way that is easy to discover.

[Anonymous]

Burberry?

10 pages, not a single mention?

[Anonymous]

Just for kicks, those Victoria’s Secret totes….