DesignerGuy
05-09-2005, 07:59 PM
I have always believed that accessories are the ‘icing on
the cake’, so to speak. The perfect items that subtly make your outfit look
superb and uncommonly flash. So it should come as no surprise that women have so
many accessories, especially bags.
I’ve always found it extraordinary how many bags a woman needs. But I did eventually realise that a woman needs a bag for every occasion, rather than an occasion for every bag.
That is why I find it all rather tragic when I see what I saw today. A girl dressed casually, carrying the wrong bag, completely out of context.
I’m not sure what it was that drew my attention to her so fast. Perhaps it was the clash between the obviously fak-e-bay leather Prada handbag against her olive, worn knit top. Or maybe the platitude of her multi-coloured bag clashing with her white two-stripe, Velcro strap-over runners. Maybe it was just that the Prada insignia was wrong ?
I confess, I haven’t seen anything quite so fake since earlier in the year when I was on my way to NYC and the girl sitting next to me had a fake Louis Vuitton speedy. I bit my tongue, almost until it bled, but then I finally just had to let it go :
“My goodness, they seem to have put the monogram upside down on that panel ! I’d take it back to the store if I were you”
Suffice it to say, the colour in her face said it all and she was kind enough thank me for my advice.
But back to the matter at hand. In truth, it was hard to tell if today’s girl really was clueless as to her accessorising sense or not. Maybe she thought everybody would believe a girl in rags carrying a counterfeit Prada bag was cool ? Or had she truly gone for that popular ‘I saved all year to buy this’ look. But certainly, such an ostentatious and perceivably faux bag is not for all occasions. It’s a ‘dress me up’ bag.
Perhaps if she’d just bought a more modest casual bag, she would have looked more comfortable, spontaneous and maybe even, dare I say it, a bit ‘funky’. Besides, surely other girls aren’t impressed at fak-e-bay bags ? Or maybe they really can’t tell either ?
Nevertheless, there’s nothing wrong with dressing casual at all. But your clothing needs to be in context.
Take me for example. Standing next to her, I was wearing a Novacheck lined casual navy sports jacket, De Clic multi-coloured shirt, Marc’s casual cotton button up pants, Bally belt and Bally trainers with my subtle non-Novachecked casual Burberry messenger bag (I finally decided that I needed a casual messenger bag for those times when my Louis Vuitton Pilot’s Case was too formal. My YSL bag, funky as it is, remains too small should I need to carry any substantial … umm … messages).
Accessories and context dears … it’s all about context.
I’ve always found it extraordinary how many bags a woman needs. But I did eventually realise that a woman needs a bag for every occasion, rather than an occasion for every bag.
That is why I find it all rather tragic when I see what I saw today. A girl dressed casually, carrying the wrong bag, completely out of context.
I’m not sure what it was that drew my attention to her so fast. Perhaps it was the clash between the obviously fak-e-bay leather Prada handbag against her olive, worn knit top. Or maybe the platitude of her multi-coloured bag clashing with her white two-stripe, Velcro strap-over runners. Maybe it was just that the Prada insignia was wrong ?
I confess, I haven’t seen anything quite so fake since earlier in the year when I was on my way to NYC and the girl sitting next to me had a fake Louis Vuitton speedy. I bit my tongue, almost until it bled, but then I finally just had to let it go :
“My goodness, they seem to have put the monogram upside down on that panel ! I’d take it back to the store if I were you”
Suffice it to say, the colour in her face said it all and she was kind enough thank me for my advice.
But back to the matter at hand. In truth, it was hard to tell if today’s girl really was clueless as to her accessorising sense or not. Maybe she thought everybody would believe a girl in rags carrying a counterfeit Prada bag was cool ? Or had she truly gone for that popular ‘I saved all year to buy this’ look. But certainly, such an ostentatious and perceivably faux bag is not for all occasions. It’s a ‘dress me up’ bag.
Perhaps if she’d just bought a more modest casual bag, she would have looked more comfortable, spontaneous and maybe even, dare I say it, a bit ‘funky’. Besides, surely other girls aren’t impressed at fak-e-bay bags ? Or maybe they really can’t tell either ?
Nevertheless, there’s nothing wrong with dressing casual at all. But your clothing needs to be in context.
Take me for example. Standing next to her, I was wearing a Novacheck lined casual navy sports jacket, De Clic multi-coloured shirt, Marc’s casual cotton button up pants, Bally belt and Bally trainers with my subtle non-Novachecked casual Burberry messenger bag (I finally decided that I needed a casual messenger bag for those times when my Louis Vuitton Pilot’s Case was too formal. My YSL bag, funky as it is, remains too small should I need to carry any substantial … umm … messages).
Accessories and context dears … it’s all about context.
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