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#981
Sparkletastic said:
I saw this in a Facebook post and thought it was super silly. :lol: Thought I’d share it for giggles. What are your thoughts…
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It's like something a 5 y o would make up between 'Tell Your News' and 'Lets do Maths'.

I can tell which country the person comes from too. The hierarchy is not not only culturally biased but the word 'elegant' and 'lady' give it away too.

I guess I'm a filthy, glowing rich, elegant, boss lady, which makes me :lol:. I'm so far from that.
 
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papertiger said:
It's like something a 5 y o would make up between 'Tell Your News' and 'Lets do Maths'.

I can tell which country the person comes from too. The hierarchy is not not only culturally biased but the word 'elegant' and 'lady' give it away too.

I guess I'm a filthy, glowing rich, elegant, boss lady, which makes me :lol:. I'm so far from that.
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My question is, if anyone who has a significant other buys Bvlgari - are they doomed to immediately have the relationships end so they can transform in a poof into Single Modern Ladies? :roflmfao:

Oh! And where are the men in this line up? Do they just get to be themselves? LOL!
 
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Vintage Leather said:
In the second picture, Paddy looks like a small child, cuddling her blankie! “Adulting is hard,” I can just hear her saying.

It’s adorable.
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All my bags are my children and I love them all equally :whistle:

The pink/beige/black check is a coat I wore it with it yesterday (with black tee, tight flared dark denim jeans, black suede boots). It's more of a reach to find clothes in Spring/Summer to go with black bags, but it can be done.

Much easier for shoulder carrying with a lighter weight coat.
 
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Sparkletastic said:
My question is, if anyone who has a significant other buys Bvlgari - are they doomed to immediately have the relationships end so they can transform in a poof into Single Modern Ladies? :roflmfao:

Oh! And where are the men in this line up? Do they just get to be themselves? LOL!
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I think it shows us how subjective or localise all this style-tribe nonsense is. Men are left out, but possibly she did another for them (and yes, we can tell this was devised by a young woman).

That the 'hierarchy' implies age and martial status have something to do with success is also very shaky. For some markets when luxury has just become more accessible, I think it is a little more definable.

There have always been cliques and style-stiles. I remember in '00s London I could probably draw a map and working tribes for men and women around the city. Then it would have gone like this:

This era would have been 2002-07
Hermes: 'Ladies that lunch' (Mayfair and Knightsbridge) and foreign women with servants, Russian women (Knightsbridge and Marble Arch)
Lous Vuitton: Essex commuters working in the City's financial sector and real/fake North London suburbs
Mulberry and Chloe: Lawyers around Holborn and Chancery Lane
Tods / Ferregamo 'Quiet' ex-pat Americans and Europeans in Bloomsbury and Chelsea
Chanel and BV: Women working in marketing, advertising and PR
Mulberry/Paul Smith and MJ: Admin office workers, but unlike the lawyers - with bag charms (often teddies)
Balenciaga and YSL: Models and 'it girls' from South Kensington and Notting Hill
Gucci: Russians, Europeans and other out-of-towners (very few British)
Dior: Young professionals, start-up queens and older 'ladies that lunch'
No one would be seen dead in any luxury brand bag east of Islington.
Etc

Retail workers in London flashed diamonds not bags.

Around the late-00s, around the time of the Celine Luggage fashion for around 6 months, and then another 'it bag' and then another and then another, there was no time to consolidate any bag as a part of a uniform.

It's was a form of signalling 'I belong'. I don't think it's like that now. In fact, I think jackets are the new signifiers, whereas just a couple of years ago it was jewellery.

I am in London a lot. Central, South, North, East and West. I could honestly not tell you which luxury bag tribe anyone belongs to. If I catch a train where many women used to be carrying LV (or MK if younger) 10 years ago, they now carry generic, anonymous bags, not even contemporary. Men (same commute) that used to wear suits, smell of aftershave and carry LV damier-print holdalls and briefcases, now wear casual 'street' labels (if any) and carry nylon backpacks (I guess like their corporate US counterparts).

I hardly see anything 'fashion' 'tribal' or distinctive anymore generally. Everyone is increasingly looking more and more homogenised and anonymous.

I don't have a clue where all the things people buy in the stores go to once bought.
 
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papertiger said:
I think it shows us how subjective or localise all this style-tribe nonsense is. Men are left out, but possibly she did another for them (and yes, we can tell this was devised by a young woman).

That the 'hierarchy' implies age and martial status have something to do with success is also very shaky. For some markets when luxury has just become more accessible, I think it is a little more definable.

There have always been cliques and style-stiles. I remember in '00s London I could probably draw a map and working tribes for men and women around the city. Then it would have gone like this:

This era would have been 2002-07
Hermes: 'Ladies that lunch' (Mayfair and Knightsbridge) and foreign women with servants, Russian women (Knightsbridge and Marble Arch)
Lous Vuitton: Essex commuters working in the City's financial sector and real/fake North London suburbs
Mulberry and Chloe: Lawyers around Holborn and Chancery Lane
Tods / Ferregamo 'Quiet' ex-pat Americans and Europeans in Bloomsbury and Chelsea
Chanel and BV: Women working in marketing, advertising and PR
Mulberry/Paul Smith and MJ: Admin office workers, but unlike the lawyers - with bag charms (often teddies)
Balenciaga and YSL: Models and 'it girls' from South Kensington and Notting Hill
Gucci: Russians, Europeans and other out-of-towners (very few British)
Dior: Young professionals, start-up queens and older 'ladies that lunch'
No one would be seen dead in any luxury brand bag east of Islington.
Etc

Retail workers in London flashed diamonds not bags.

Around the late-00s, around the time of the Celine Luggage fashion for around 6 months, and then another 'it bag' and then another and then another, there was no time to consolidate any bag as a part of a uniform.

It's was a form of signalling 'I belong'. I don't think it's like that now. In fact, I think jackets are the new signifiers, whereas just a couple of years ago it was jewellery.

I am in London a lot. Central, South, North, East and West. I could honestly not tell you which luxury bag tribe anyone belongs to. If I catch a train where many women used to be carrying LV (or MK if younger) 10 years ago, they now carry generic, anonymous bags, not even contemporary. Men (same commute) that used to wear suits, smell of aftershave and carry LV damier-print holdalls and briefcases, now wear casual 'street' labels (if any) and carry nylon backpacks (I guess like their corporate US counterparts).

I hardly see anything 'fashion' 'tribal' or distinctive anymore generally. Everyone is increasingly looking more and more homogenised and anonymous.

I don't have a clue where all the things people buy in the stores go to once bought.
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When I lived in Scottsdale Arizona during that same timeframe, I used to joke that there was a uniform they issued at town borders. People usually shopped and ate and worked in their neighborhoods.

If you bought a horse property, (North Scottsdale, Cave Creek) you need to have good jeans, Native American jewelry, a ridiculously sparkly (BB Simon) belt, custom boots and Hermes, tooled leather, or vintage Gucci bag.

Professionals (Arcadia, DC Ranch) wore the most bland clothing you could find, a LV Neverfull (Damier messenger bag for men) Chanel Jumbo or Gucci Pelham tote (in Guccisma if you were a realtor selling higher end properties) and David Yurman jewelry

However LV or Chanel with Lulumon (Arcadia, Paradise Valley) was the wardrobe of WAGs and people who owned service oriented businesses

Teens wore True Religion or CoH jeans, Tiffany jewelry, and Gucci or Coach bags.

I was visiting there about a year ago, and it was interesting to see the changes. Daughters wearing Cartier and Chanel while their mothers were in LV. More diamonds and less sterling (absolutely no DY, still some NA jewelry). No Hermes in the wild. The “tribes” still seemed to hold for the older women and horse set, but everywhere else was … well, more of a social media tribe than a neighborhood tribe.
 
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Vintage Leather said:
When I lived in Scottsdale Arizona during that same timeframe, I used to joke that there was a uniform they issued at town borders. People usually shopped and ate and worked in their neighborhoods.

If you bought a horse property, (North Scottsdale, Cave Creek) you need to have good jeans, Native American jewelry, a ridiculously sparkly (BB Simon) belt, custom boots and Hermes, tooled leather, or vintage Gucci bag.

Professionals (Arcadia, DC Ranch) wore the most bland clothing you could find, a LV Neverfull (Damier messenger bag for men) Chanel Jumbo or Gucci Pelham tote (in Guccisma if you were a realtor selling higher end properties) and David Yurman jewelry

However LV or Chanel with Lulumon (Arcadia, Paradise Valley) was the wardrobe of WAGs and people who owned service oriented businesses

Teens wore True Religion or CoH jeans, Tiffany jewelry, and Gucci or Coach bags.

I was visiting there about a year ago, and it was interesting to see the changes. Daughters wearing Cartier and Chanel while their mothers were in LV. More diamonds and less sterling (absolutely no DY, still some NA jewelry). No Hermes in the wild. The “tribes” still seemed to hold for the older women and horse set, but everywhere else was … well, more of a social media tribe than a neighborhood tribe.
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It must be so much clearer when you witness the changes all at once.
 
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I haven't worn my Paddington for over 10 years, now I've worn black/black Paddington 3 x in 1 week

Sorry for the same pic.

I almost wore a similar outfit to yesterday, but not the coat. Raining today. I went ol' school classic to go to town: Burberry Summer weight Burberry mini-trench, dark denim flares, black cashmere polo-neck (is 'polo' understood in the US/elsewhere - or is it roll-neck?) Cartier Tank and jewellery, Italian leather black, block heel boots.

Felt a bit sad today. My Hermes SA is leaving. I don't know if I feel sad because she's leaving or because I feel a bit 'stuck'.
 
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