Okay.. Again, I am reading another book which has gotten me thinking about the quality of items that are imported into the United States of America. Yesterday, while I was celebrating the holiday I found myself in a great local bookstore here in Austin, Bookpeople. It is a independent bookstore and totally defies the retail corporate book world, which is something that I can totally identify with and appreciate.
So, I picked up this book Deluxe: How Luxury lost its Luster by, Dana Thomas here is the book in a nutshell, Ladies stop wasting your money on Gucci, Prada and Louis Vuitton because you are purchasing a quality handbag made in Italy but, rather a knockoff version of that handbag from the 1950's for the China look a like for the same price!
I would like to look at it this way, if you are going to buy a knock off why don't you just buy it from Chinatown instead of the snotty lady at the Neiman Marcus counter?! Oh and by the way the reason that they had to start using China is so they could keep up with the demand of "Middle America" women like you and me making modest incomes and wasting it on "quality" items made in China!
Ladies here is some word of advise go ahead and continue purchasing your expensive handbags but, believe me I will no longer look twice at your China made, Gucci handbag money that could have been better spend, buying Indian silk, and having a suit made by that Italian tailor!
I hope everyone had a very happy 4th of July!
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Didn't know you were in town on Friday! We missed you at the house.
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