I do not support the purchasing or production of fake/knock off hand bags.


With that said, I also dislike websites such as Bag Borrow or Steal, Shoulder Candy, and other websites that allow people to "rent" expensive designer hand bags. If you're going to use a handbag for one week and then return it--- is it really worth almost a hundred dollars? Just for that one week? Then every week after that is another 60-something dollars... you might as well just save your money, buy the real deal, and use it everyday for the next three months and totally get your moneys worth.


These types of websites usually offer some hand bags up for sale-- after they've been rented out 1,000 times and, as I like to say, are "retired." But even then, if you're STILL going to spend 900+ dollars on that hand bag, wait another week's paycheck, dish out an extra hundred dollars, and buy it brand new.


The theory behind the whole process is extraordinary but in reality, purses are not CARS. They are practical works of art-- fabulous manipulations of leather, suede, and other tough materials. They carry a woman's "prized" possessions, her necessities for the day, and most of all many of her deepest secrets. You can't share that.


It's true, what they say. You never look in a woman's purse.



--Alicia