Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Power of the Purse: the Birkin


This is the holy grail of handbags. In order to get it, you must pull Indiana Jones-like stunts to obtain it. You must go through months of exploration, you must know the right people to find its general location, then leap through many rings of fire and snake pits, and then.. then there is the waiting list: the most treacherous of them all. But once your name has been called and you enter the room of wonderment with all of the other faulty bags surrounding the priceless one (by priceless I mean $30,o00 for the basic model) all of the peril and the stress washes away. So, you may ask, why is this bag so different from the others?
Well first of all its Hermés, already a mark in its favor. Then there is the fact that it is all hand-stitched and is made out of the best of leather, either clemence or vache hunter I believe. The more elaborate versions may be diamond encrusted which could knock it into the monetary equivalent of buying a Meserati. In short, from the wise words of Ferris Bueller, "It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up."

*If you are a politics nut, then here is a little more information about the power of the purse.

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