Bag Insults - Ever Had One?

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#466
When I showed my Rebecca Minkoff Mini Mac in neon pink to my sister she wasn't thrilled at all...
She said it looks "totally cheap" and screams "Barbie Girl", which is what you commonly call fake, plasticy or classless women here. Just because it is pink. I told her that there are very sophisticated ways to wear pink, but she didn't agree.

When she saw that my son was wearing some yellow nail polish (we put in on for fun because he saw me with it and wanted it badly) she said "no wonder with this kind of mother..":shucks:

So that are a bunch of insults that started with my bag. I am not even the type to be all done up, I hardly wear any make up...I'm really not sure why she got like that, but then again she does not care about fashion, jewelry, bags...none of that stuff.
She has one handbag that cost 15 bucks and it gets thrown around and worn until it falls apart. She can't related to my liking for bags at all. :p
 
#467
zzarazza said:
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".
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Haha I think it's kind of cute how intrested your maleco-workers were in your bag😊 I can imagine it was a bit embarassing though!
 
#468
That would be from my sister. In fact she seems to have made it her personal mission to put me down at every possible chance, since birth! She would insult my make-up, my clothing, and now my choice of bags. I did not commend on how she chooses to spend her money at expensive massages and spas, I don't see how she is entitled to have an opinion over my choices. I have tried to avoid using my designer bags whenever I am going to see her but there was just once when I rushed over to her place and forgot to change out of my vintage chanel camera bag. She asked how much it costed and then gave me a dirty look! (She has blatantly admitted she's a huge supporter of fakes). Heeeellloooo! I rushed over because you were down and needed me! I get the sibling rivalry thing but it has got to stop when you're well in your mid-thirties! You can choose which friends to keep but unfortunately you can't choose your family!
 
#469
minigingerbread said:
That would be from my sister. In fact she seems to have made it her personal mission to put me down at every possible chance, since birth! She would insult my make-up, my clothing, and now my choice of bags. I did not commend on how she chooses to spend her money at expensive massages and spas, I don't see how she is entitled to have an opinion over my choices. I have tried to avoid using my designer bags whenever I am going to see her but there was just once when I rushed over to her place and forgot to change out of my vintage chanel camera bag. She asked how much it costed and then gave me a dirty look! (She has blatantly admitted she's a huge supporter of fakes). Heeeellloooo! I rushed over because you were down and needed me! I get the sibling rivalry thing but it has got to stop when you're well in your mid-thirties! You can choose which friends to keep but unfortunately you can't choose your family!
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Reminds me so much of my relationship with my younger sister...:( There is a lot of rivalry coming from her side. She's 26 and I'm 31. Our lives were really different...I started working soon after college and have switched my job a few times, then lived in the US for a while (NY and CA). I'm not too focused on career and all that as long as I can enjoy life, more of an artsy person, jack of all trades.
She is a very discipline university student (that LOVES to party and drink though) and still in college while working (she studies pedagogy). I am currently not working because I have a small child, so my career isn't getting any better (I was a bilingual Administrative Asst.). And I feel because of all of this she looks down on me.
She often also tries to tell me how to raise my son...:/

And same here, my sister also comments on my clothes, saying I'm overdressed. Or she she makes fun of me for taking care of my (long) hair. Even my figure recently. Some days she is nicer, or only joking but she has moments.
She also spends her money elsewhere...just because someone does not buy expensive bags doesn't mean they are penny pinching.

Sorry for all the OT
 
#470
When I was 13, someone asked me 'why is all your stuff designer?' and another time 'how do you afford all this' and 'is it real?' then asked if they could see inside and inspected my LV Zippy wallet and finished with, 'it looks real to me'. I was so disgusted, I would never question someone on the authenticity of their bag and believe me I'm extremely good at spotting fakes.
 
#471
Ariella2205 said:
When I was 13, someone asked me 'why is all your stuff designer?' and another time 'how do you afford all this' and 'is it real?' then asked if they could see inside and inspected my LV Zippy wallet and finished with, 'it looks real to me'. I was so disgusted, I would never question someone on the authenticity of their bag and believe me I'm extremely good at spotting fakes.
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Wow - beyond rude!
 
#472
I'm reading these posts (and I've contributed several of my own)...and it just irritates the heck out of me how some people can be so blunt/rude about other people's choices in life.......I think it extends beyond commenting on bags....I've gotten the (albeit well-intentioned) "WOW! You've lost so much weight! You look so good!" and "You know, I think I like you better with glasses than with contact lenses" (um....thank you?!!!) to "Wow! You have so many tattoos??!! Aren't you going to regret them?!"

The older I get, the less I tolerate that crap. I just tailor my comment depending on who it is (a rude coworker will get a more "professional barb" back from me, versus a random stranger, who will get a blunter response).

When my oldest brother commented (again) in disgust about all of my (artfully done) tattoos, I finally lost it and said sarcastically, "Oh, my God! You're right, you know! I'm so glad that they're not on YOUR BODY!!!! Good call!!!!" And that shut him up for awhile.

People have stories. They spend their money on what they want. Everyone has vices. Judge not. It makes the world more interesting if you just sit and listen to people's stories rather than judging them for what they spend their money on.
 
#473
I guess I have good friends and generally uninterested family members... I can't think of any time either of those groups have commented on my handbags. Truth be told... members of TPF are probably the only folks I chat with that are interested in handbags.

My husband... now that is another story. Although he is typically pretty cool... sometimes he will tell me that I have way too many bags...
 
#474
CoachCruiser said:
I'm reading these posts (and I've contributed several of my own)...and it just irritates the heck out of me how some people can be so blunt/rude about other people's choices in life.......I think it extends beyond commenting on bags....I've gotten the (albeit well-intentioned) "WOW! You've lost so much weight! You look so good!" and "You know, I think I like you better with glasses than with contact lenses" (um....thank you?!!!) to "Wow! You have so many tattoos??!! Aren't you going to regret them?!"

The older I get, the less I tolerate that crap. I just tailor my comment depending on who it is (a rude coworker will get a more "professional barb" back from me, versus a random stranger, who will get a blunter response).

When my oldest brother commented (again) in disgust about all of my (artfully done) tattoos, I finally lost it and said sarcastically, "Oh, my God! You're right, you know! I'm so glad that they're not on YOUR BODY!!!! Good call!!!!" And that shut him up for awhile.

People have stories. They spend their money on what they want. Everyone has vices. Judge not. It makes the world more interesting if you just sit and listen to people's stories rather than judging them for what they spend their money on.
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Yes - absolutely! Well said!
 
#475
Ppl r just competitive and it's sad. I got engaged last year and so did two other girlfriends of mine. I found out a couple of months ago that one of them went on the website for the store where my ring came from to check out the price. Both herself and her fiancé were even more disgusted when they found out that the clarity of my diamond was better than what was online....how sad is that? I don't say anything to anyone about money and how much anything costs because I realise not everyone can be happy for you.
 
#476
I once went into a Michael Kors store and that day I had my LV Speedy with me. A SA came up to me and asked me whether she could help me etc. When I said no, her follow up question was "Is that a real one?". I literally have never felt so insulted in my life and just said "Well, shouldn't you be able to tell?" and walk out of the store almost immediately after that.

Never returned to that particular store either.
 
#477
I was posting a photo of the bag I am using on my Instagram. Then my high school batch-mate left a comment on my photo saying "You're obsess with signature designer goods and not to the stuff!". I was like "What she cares on what I do with my hard earned money? And who she think she is to judge me like that" in my mind. I replied to her and ask her what made her to leave a comment like that. She answered me "Because your IG account is full of your designer goods stuff". I mean what does she care what I post on my IG? I don't leave comment like that or on photo of her kid which like every 30mins. She have her kid and I have my bags can we just respect each other.
 
#478
jadeaymanalac said:
I was posting a photo of the bag I am using on my Instagram. Then my high school batch-mate left a comment on my photo saying "You're obsess with signature designer goods and not to the stuff!". I was like "What she cares on what I do with my hard earned money? And who she think she is to judge me like that" in my mind. I replied to her and ask her what made her to leave a comment like that. She answered me "Because your IG account is full of your designer goods stuff". I mean what does she care what I post on my IG? I don't leave comment like that or on photo of her kid which like every 30mins. She have her kid and I have my bags can we just respect each other.
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Guess she's just jealous? Motherhood can sometimes be a lonely journey. Perhaps commenting on your posts gives her temporary relief from her life.
 
#480
caitatonic said:
I wouldn't respond at all. If that's truly what he said, nothing you say will change his mind. His brain is far too small to comprehend a logical response. Let him ramble about nothing and enjoy your bags :)
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Nonverbal responses such as staring at him in bewilderment for 10 a good while... then I would honestly say "I don't know how to respond to that"
 
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