The Bag in Question.

     We all have dreams, and most of my dreams are related to the handbag kind. And, the current one at the top of my list is the Celine Trapeze bag in the tricolor, and my god this bag is a beauty. The amazing wings of the bag, from the amazing lock closer , and the soft leather that it comes in. The situation is that the bag is at the current price of $3,500, and I'm going to college next year.

      However I did think about the other alternatives to getting the bag...the counterfeit market. Then this made my think, is the counterfeit market really that bad? I mean I could get a good Chanel 2.55 medium Boy bag replica in the color mint for $400 instead of the $4,800 or that dream Celine bag. I mean, I like Celine with whole cool girl French vibe, and also Phoebe Philo with her modernist references. However, was I in love with the brand that much to ask my sugar parents to get me the bag?


      With some research I had a second thought before getting that bag made of dead cow. From the Business Insider last year they stated that China has a "...$25 billion in estimated counterfeit products..." I was shocked, but then I was not really that shocked. In the law of supply and demand, if people want it then china is ready to crank it out. And, with that kind of price tag, China is happily going cracking out the fake goods for the money. Also from CBS news China is still the number one country to produce and ship out counterfeit goods. Last year, as the article states, there was a billion dollars of merchandise seized, but they still don't know how much is still getting passed into the U.S.

      This research did give me a new insight into the counterfeit market, and that it was kind of bad thing on the scale of morality. And, and that there was a cost to the environment and also the economic struggles that came with it. So, I know that I have no patience for the things I want. Sadly, in this case I might go get a job to fund for this dream bag I want.

(Bags that are bad...like morally wrong.)



(The dream bag by Céline.)

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/counterfeit-goods-from-china-a-continuing-problem-that-costs-billions-a-year/

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-counterfeit-goods-are-from-china-2013-6

Mini Bags at Work.

Life is a world full of big people situation, from that failed text message to your boy toy about that lunch date for the weekend. Or your BFF is not in the mood too hang ten with you, when she just went through the Mt.Everest in understanding her relationship status as single. Yeah, life is filled with a lot of sucky situations that we all have to face. And the worst part is, why are we pulling a big tote around with our emotions in it, when we can carry a mini bag and look super cute? 

I mean the logic here is that the bigger the bag, the more room we can stuff it with our feelings from hell. And let's be real here, who seriously wants to carry a bag like that with them all day, and deal with the feels that will only bring us down after a long day of shopping. I surely don't want to, and the last time I checked none of us don't want to deal with them feels. That's why there ice cream people, it helps a lot. 

So now back on the track of logic, if we carry a big bag with all the feelings in it. Then we should carry a mini bag and then be selective with our emotions that we carry. I know it took me forever to figure this out too so we are on the same sailboat here. Like with a bag that small we can at lest deal with are feelings now...right? 

This is where things can get a tad tricky, and I'm not taking about the selection of the bag, as that can get hard too. But, I mean the emotions that we can force into our bags. I mean my Coach Penny bag in fuchsia is so small and I have to fit all my feelings into it. 

So with logic on my side, happiness is my wallet, and well my full size wallet is not going to fit in this poor baby. I down sized it into my Fossil coin purse in Tiffany blue. (Im not limiting my happiness here as I still am carrying the same things that I need, but in a smaller size of cuteness.) Then my Coach coin purse is hunger and I just keep it as is, I'm a always hungers so that's not changing anytime soon. Then my stress is in my flash drive for school and my school ID, that goes in the front pocket to be away from my other feelings. And there is freedom as it is founded in my keys. (I drive a Saturn VUE, she's not super pretty but she is my BFF that is in silver.) Then sadness stays at home, because I ran out of room in my bags to fit it in . 

I know what your thinking, this sounds so lame and why are you placing your feelings into objects that have no real life purpose at all. Well it's pretty simple, we carry all of these items with is on the daily. And we also most likely all carry our feelings on the same shoulder we carry our bags. 

So when looking at it from that prospective, we should all be carrying our emotions that we only need and that makes us happy to be who we are. Why are are we carrying around all this extra unneeded baggage with us. That's why there's the magic of the mini bag it's so little because it makes us be selective on what we need to carry. 

So, it's not really doing anything more then makeing us happy at the end of the day from shopping. Plus, it's so cute, and so tiny, and kinda not proportional to our body's that's makes them so adorable. So mini bags are awesome in style and awesome psychotherapist at work in our wardrobes. 

Denim heaven is real

Im the kind of person that doesn't care for denim that much, it's there and at the same time it's not there. I could go for any other textile in the world, but denim not so much. Until last week when I stumbled in to the whole section of denim shirts at TJmaxx late one night. And, might I say that it was mind blowing a experience in all the right ways. Not that brain matter flew around, but that I was lost into a fantasy land made of clothes.   

I mean dear god it was all so soft and all oh so blue. But, I won't lie it was kind of a challenge to pick out one shirt that I loved. The prejudgment of I had of denim was already negative. However, looking at them all gave me a since of "opes I was wrong about denim" and more of the feeling "of wow is that a cropped denim shirt, oh wait this is a child's small."

So hours later, knowing that I needed to do my papers for class and working on a presentation due tomorrow. I had to make up my mind, do I go for the trendy ombré, the woren light wash, the throwback acid wash, or the fresh out of the factory dark wash. This gave me a headache that no large coke from McDonald's could handle. 

So it was then I found the good averge of the four. The medium wash, with my kind of logic that took forever for me to figure that out. But this was a pretty chic might I say, it was extremely soft to the fingers with the classic stiffness of denim and also for me it was in a medium. 

As I began to walk to the counter for check out, and get home to start on that delayed paper I hade to write. I also found another shirt that was just hanging there as the store lights made it glow with grace. And no it was not cropped or a child's small. But a medical scientific descovery that I could have cried over for days with no need for the compensation of ice cream that could stop it. It was a Vince denim shirt made with love in every stitch, and schockingly for only $49.99, I did not cry but I sure did run to that check out like a mad women on crack. And when at that counter I felt the feeling of happiness fill my little heart. 

So the moral of the story was that never  have prejudgment on denim as it is so amazing on your body. Second, don't do your projects when you can go shopping late at night to find the deals of your life. And finally don't run to the check out like a made woman as I did almost fall flat on my face.