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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I clearly did touch a nerve. Predictably I suppose.

I want to clarify that what I find odd is not that there are SOME wealthy families who send their kids to public school, but that there’s a particular obsession at some public schools with being flashy.  YSL handbags are like the least expensive designer handbags you can buy - but people buy them in part because they scream “I’m expensive” even to those who know nothing about handbags. And I guess I don’t understand that mentality - wanting to look expensive to strangers - when MOST of those women are not super wealthy. And most wealthy women I know don’t carry an entry-level YSL logo handbag.

Anyway, i don’t really understand what it is I’m getting at, but this thread is helping me realize it’s less about school choice and more about displays of wealth and their meaning that I find confusing, and interesting, particularly in certain subcultures (where half the moms carry the same handbag).[/quote]

I think what you’re struggling with is that you’re projecting your own pretension and materialism onto other people and then can’t understand why their behavior doesn’t square with what you’re projecting.[/quote]

Yes, OP you are clearly a far superior human to your neighbors who tote YSL handbags and send their children to public school  :roll:

This thread is really about OPs need to feel superior and she is doing that by choosing to feel superior that she does not carry a tacky LV bag. It's ridiculous to think that carrying other high-end bags is any different - the signifiers are still there on celine and ferragamos.
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