My complete disconnect with those two ‘hot’ fashion topics – ‘jeans’ and ‘bags’ is quite evident on this blog and I guess I can’t do anything except shrug my shoulders and say ‘I dunno....’ in a dumbass, babyish, ignoramus sort of way.  However, it doesn’t mean that I can avoid the subjects altogether (actually scratch that, I haven’t worn a pair of jeans in an outfit..... in the past.... um..... year or so.... jeans avoidance is most definitely possible...).  OBVIOUSLY, I’m forced to use bags in daily life and I do have a ton of stuff to carry so I guess, some sort of baggage reportage is required and so here is a post about those wretched bag things....   

My latest acquisitions veer from impractical to questionable so even when treading on the unknown territory such as ‘bags’, I can’t really play it safe and just plonk my credit card down for a Balenciaga leather what not in Selfridges....

This vintage square box purse, a find in Manchester (let’s hope that city yields more goodies next time I’m up there...) is fast becoming my bag of SS08.  It is deceptively small as I can fit my camera, phone, concealer, Vaseline, cards and keys in it and with those bare essentials, I’m good to go.  I like the satisfying clippy sound the clasp makes and the way the suede smells inside.  Even with something that I’m quite unattached to like a bag, it’s those little experiences that endear me to that item...

Moving onto the questionable.... and I may get a lot of flack for this.  *Takes a deep breath....*  I knowingly bought a fake bag on eBay.... dear god... shoot me now and strike a stake through my heart!  Let’s rewind though.... I bought it because it’s a suede multicoloured square patch bag with a yellow fringe handle.  Miu Miu-irrelevant.  Period.  The seller couldn’t be sure whether it was a real Miu Miu but that tell-tale fake duster bag and tag told me it was fakey Mc Fake.  Yet I loved the bag all the same and in the end, at $40, I couldn’t get a better price for a similar thing in a vintage store.   I can’t really mark it out as belonging to a particular season (perhaps hardcore Miu Miu fans can tell me?) so the fakeness of it is even more irrelevant. 

Yes shame on me for doing the counterfeit thing, especially when I was so perturbed by the fact that China makes...fake eggs(?!) in Channel 4’s The Fake Trade documentary but the multicoloured patches of suede...the happy happiness it will bring to an outfit... the fact that it doesn’t carry a neon sign above it that earmarks it as a ‘FAKE MIU MIU BAG’ (unlike some of the...erm...Marc Jacobs ‘Stums’ I’ve seen...  ).... yes, a stake through my heart it shall be but I will be counting those squares multicoloured of suede and keep on stroking them....