A Guy's Take on Women's Passion For Designer Bags
I am writing this as guy who cannot understand women's fascination
with handbags. Handbags are about as foreign to most of us men as it
gets. Women pack them full of stuff they don't need and then lug them
around wherever they go. The kind of bag they like seems to change from
day to day. They are thrilled to find cheap handbags at half off, but
then spend small fortunes on designer bags. If we buy them one as a
gift, it'll inevitably be returned. And they seem to reject anything
that's practical and actually works. Go figure.
Being the
warm, sophisticated, caring male I am, this appalling lack of
understanding of what handbags, purses, clutches, satchels and hobos are
and why they are so vitally important really bothered me. So I poked
around the web in the hope of educating myself and learning the secrets
of handbags. Not so much the run of the mill stuff, but the designer
purses and designer handbags women seem so crazy about. What I found is
an amazing world of information and knowledge that I never knew existed.
Yes, there are places as enthusiastic about designer bags as us guys
are about important stuff like football, golf and video games.
From
what I can tell, luxury handbags from famous designers are for women
what things like titanium drivers, custom wheels or big screen TVs are
for us. They discuss them endlessly and in great detail. They can make
them look and feel good. They can boost morale or even help get a job.
They can help them fit in or set themselves apart. And no woman would
want to be caught dead with the wrong bag. It's that important. I found
that there are designer brand names that women find hot and exciting,
like Gucci, Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Dooney and Bourke, and
Burberry. I can truly say that I never heard of them other than perhaps
Gucci, and I thought those guys just made shoes.
As is,
it's apparently hard work for women to keep up with all that designer
stuff. If evening purses or leather handbags with designer labels on
them can cost a small fortune, you want to know what's in and what's
not. Or when it's acceptable to get replicas instead of the real thing
(which is a good because I sure can't tell them apart). So there are
websites that contain more information about handbags than I ever
thought possible. There are about a million different styles and each
style has its own rules. The designers apparently come out with new
stuff very frequently, and women need to know what's cool and what you
really, really need to stay away from.
Women, of course,
communicate much better and much more eloquently than we do, and so
there are handbag blogs and forums and discussion groups to analyze,
critique, and describe absolutely everything about designer bags. That
is vital information because they cost so much that women need to know
where to go for the best deals and where they can safe some money.
I
know I am writing this tongue in cheek, but I must say I was impressed
with how much good information I found. As a guy I can relate to needing
to know absolutely everything about things I care about, and if women
are passionate about designer bags instead of power tools and mag
wheels, that's what makes us different and special.
Chris
Robertson is an author of Majon International, one of the worlds MOST
popular internet marketing companies on the web. Learn more about
Designer Handbags.
