So sorry for the ladies who got 'ugly' comments, it's never right to behave that way.
I didn't have any of the stuff said to my face about my bags, but I am now in a peculiar situation. I live in a city where there are no brand boutiques. In fact, the closest Celine corner is 550 miles away in the capital and the closest Chanel boutique is in another country.
So, I didn't have any big designer name bags at all for a long time. Couple of years ago I bought my first fancy bags - Mulberry and Alexander Wang - while travelling. By that time I have been dreaming of Celine Luggage for a year or more. I waited and waited and did not give in to the temptation. At the time there were many Chanel fakes around, and of course LV, but no Celine look-alikes because, as I mentioned, we're not a fashion-forward city
So, last October after certain family and work trouble I finally caved in and bought a Celine Luggage Mini. I had to organise the purchase from the boutique in Italy and had it sent to me from my mother's friend, so even that wasn't easy. Finally I got my baby. I couldn't have been happier.
When the courier arrived, I was at the office, and of course I needed to unwrap it
I work for the IT company, so my colleagues are mostly male, but there are a few girls too. When guys saw the bag, they became curious and Googled it. After that office erupted in chaos. Some guys started to count how many fancy car tires they could get for it, others compared it to the top Apple Macbook Pro laptop, one of the guys instagrammed the bag with the price next to it, and so on.
My friend (male) who knew how I wanted the bag went into this sarcastic mode, like, 'you should put a throw on the taxi seat before putting your Celine there' and 'if you get out and it rains, you should take off your coat and cover the bag' and stuff like that.
But the craziest part was next day. One of the guys gets into the office ALL EXCITED and shouts 'I just saw a girl with your bag!'. I am of course very skeptical, but he says, I even got a picture of her because I knew nobody would believe me. And he proceeds to show me the photo on his phone of the girl with a very fake Celine Luggage Mini outside of our office. I am all down at that point because it looks like I've waited for too long and now there are fakes sold in city.
But even that is not the end of the story
that night I am coming out of the office and I bump into that girl with the fake in the building entrance! She looks at my bag, makes a disgusted face and sound and then goes to the street where she sits down into a very posh Lexus waiting for her. But her bag is so obvious a fake, that in addition to the fancy Lexus does not make sense at all.
So, now it's the sport of the people in my office to come and tell me of the stores where they spotted the fakes being sold, at what price and that I "shouldn't go there".
Never allow others to influence your decisions or your lifestyle in any way and live your life as you like to. We are all born equals but it takes guts to be different and true to yourself!
always about what they think I paid for the bag or how expensive the designer is, did I ask for a commentary on my shopping habits?
