Comments on: Handbags and factory girls

By: Bltp

Bltp — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:40:28 +0000

yep a little village in yorkshire was one of the former homes of Burberry now all you can get there is a tan, a quad bike and a STD! You can’t even get drunk as sadly half the pubs have closed.

By: Cocktails

Cocktails — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:04:41 +0000

Does this mean that you’re back Simon? Happy New Year and looking forward to reading some Canadian blog posts.

Re.Mrs Bs handbag and shoe purchases – I love the way people justify things. We all do it don’t we? I didn’t buy that expensive and lovely coat the other week so now to make up for it, I’m going to buy loads of DVDs this week. I do it all the time…

By: SimonB

SimonB — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:24:11 +0000

MrsB justifies her handbag/shoe purchases with the reasoning that she can never find clothes to fit. Of course she’d never dream of spending silly money on them either so we are not exactly awash with designer labels.

Oh, and Happy New Year all!

By: Cocktails

Cocktails — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:42:41 +0000

Oh, BLTP that’s a great story. Was that in Yorkshire?

I’m sick to death of handbags and shoes, two things I couldn’t really couldn’t give a toss about. I blame Sex and the City – which I don’t like either!!! I just don’t understand why we like playing up to stereotypes so much. Dull, dull, dull.

By: Bltp

Bltp — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:55:15 +0000

I had an early lesson in the distance between the glamour of products and the reality of their production. In the village my Dad lives in there use to be a sewing factory for Burberry (before they were moved abroad). It always made me smile that people paid a premium for something made in a tin shed next to sulphurous coking plant.
The whole “I heart Handbags and shoes” thing is a odd modern thing I swear 15 years a go none of my female friends mentioned them or at least not in the way they are mentioned now. And of course a bag made for £1 that sells for hundreds is clearly obscene

By: Cocktails

Cocktails — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:01:13 +0000

Jonathan, I hate to think what the 2021 retrospective will be looking back on. Probably the 90s revival – when it was cool to wear plaid shirts and crochet, or at worst, Clint Boon hairstyles again. Shudder.

Hands up ISBW, I love the cult of coffee. It’s about time. When I first came to the UK it was easier to buy a decent cup in the service station of a small country town in Australia than in a London cafe. OK, an overpriced latte can be just as annoying as an overpriced Marc Jacobs handbag, but at least you can buy one!

By: ishouldbeworking

ishouldbeworking — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:27:25 +0000

A good story. I have never understood the Cult of Handbag. Like the Cult of Coffee, which also arose during the last decade, its followers are a mystery to me ( and one which I’m happy to let go unsolved.).

By: jonathan

jonathan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:29:48 +0000

A very pleasing tale which perhaps encapsulates the ‘noughties’ (which is a word I am never going to say out loud). Except of course we were also in thrall to expensive handbags in the eighties, did we not, and will no doubt continue to be throughout whatever we are supposed to be calling this decade (The Teenies? The Tweenies?). And of course we can be absolutely sure that on January 5th 2021 the airwaves will be awash with retrospectives harking back to the crazy-but-harmless-really-wasn’t- it obsession with expensive but worthless tat that we will all have all just grown out of. Myself, I’m planning to spend the entire decade styled as a person from a BBC retrospective, with shoulder pads, bellbottoms, a candy-stripe shirt, and a mobile phone the size of a washing machine.