Part 3.
Several hundreds to several thousands dollars for a purse? It piqued my curiosity, I had to investigate. I found myself heading to one of the most exclusive department store in the area.
The first encounter I had when I arrived at one of the department store’s accessory section, was a duo of mother and her grown up daughter, who were busy perusing the handbags in the glass case and the ones that hung on nearby poles. The bags were tied together by a secure anti-thief rope.
“One hundreds fifty dollars. What do you think?” The mother lifted up a small handbag for her daughter inspection.
“Too small and too cheap.” The daughter answered.
Too, cheap?
“How about this one, two hundreds and twenty five.”
The daughter glanced at the new handbag in her mother hand. “Mom, that purse looks like any other purse. Nobody will notice it as expensive purse, ok. Then what’s the point?”
The mother then turned to where I was standing two feet away. “What do you think?”
I shrugged. I likes purses with few zippered pockets on the body for easier access to store my keys, phone and other things. So far, I didn't see any of the handbag with pockets.
“I like handbag with a lots of pockets,” I told her.
The mother smiled to me. “Me, too.”
I kept looking at the variety of handbags. They did had price tags above one hundred dollars and beyond but to find handbags with thousands-dollars price tags, I had to go deeper into the exclusive department store.
The thousands-dollars handbags displayed completely in different manner than those hundreds-dollars one. They were all housed in glass cases. Few of them shared glass cases. But many more in their own glass cases . Their price tag averaging in two thousand dollars range, but few I’d seen had five thousand dollars and up. Some in vivid solid colors, mostly in every shade of blacks. Some were small, some were as big as the bag of the young woman in the park. Yet after few minutes inspection, I noticed neither of them had outside pockets.
When I asked the sales clerk about the lack of pockets on those purses, she explained,“These handbags are exclusive. The outside pocket will hinder its exclusive style.”
"They are expensive. Do they last for long time?"
” They will last forever if you take very good care of it. Clean it only with solution that were specially made for it. Stores them properly when not in use.”
I concluded ; expensive purses do exist. Expensive purses last as long as the owner takes good care of ithem, no different than any other purses. From what I’d seen, expensive purses do not necessarily equal with "good and strong” purse. Expensive purse usually purchased just for a show instead the practicality it offered.
Is expensive purse worth to purchase? Depend who do you ask.
My answer is definitely ; No.
