very first of all, a fantastic huge welcome to all of you who are right here since this blog was a Yahoo! Pick!
In the Yahoo! interview it was discussed that sometimes I rant about the purse industrial complex (you know, the people who bring us horrible things like this):
That is ridiculous, isn’t it? just horrible. I can’t picture paying $10 for that, much less the two GRAND it really costs.
And even if you aren’t taking a look at the two-grand end of the scale, lower-end purses aren’t any type of better. small bit handles, to ensure that you can’t bring them; covered with nonfunctional locks as well as useless metal bits as well as dangling braids as well as whatnot; top quality with logos so big that you look like a mobile billboard. I dislike them all.
Which is why I purchased an old-skool trainer bag on eBay:
(Don’t worry: I eliminated that dumb hangtag very first thing.)
I needed a bag that *wouldn’t* hold my laptop — to avoid me from bring it everywhere. Something that would hold a hardcover book as well as a purse as well as my treo, however not much else. I desired great leather, however no big logos. as well as I desired a cross-body strap to keep my hands free, which is impossible to discover in a purse these days, unless you head to the Magellan catalog as well as get the ones that shout “TOURIST IN EUROPE — COMING THROUGH!”
I truly desired eco-friendly bag, however a strange eco-friendly — so this olive is perfect! A eco-friendly bag works with black or brown, so no changing back as well as forth — who has time to do that?
I quite much dislike the contemporary trainer bags, with their splashy ad campaigns, tacky logos all over as well as (I’ve heard) high quality problems, however the old trainer bags are something else. They have clean lines, neat colors, as well as even the most beat-up ones have a specific careless chic. In fact, I’m going to go out on a limb as well as state that old trainer bags are going to be the next huge thing. What with the continuing 80s revival, can’t you see a lot of skinny Brooklyn hipsters choosing that these bags have big ironic potential? You heard it right here first.
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