Designer Items #6

[yankydoo]

Changing the subject.

Anyone seen or know of any good sales coming up?

Also, I'm in the market for wedding shoes (woohoo!). Do you guys have any recommendations? I want coppery gold rather than ivory/silver and I would prefer an open toe. I really like the Aquazzura Tequila sandals but for £1100 it's just too much :-(

 

[beautyblogger123]

Changing the subject.

Anyone seen or know of any good sales coming up?

Also, I'm in the market for wedding shoes (woohoo!). I want coppery gold rather than ivory and open toe. I really like the Aquazzura Tequila sandals but for £1100 it's just too much :-(

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Those are beautiful!

Harvey Nicks have started their preview - there's up to 40% off there

 

[hytuhh]

Changing the subject.

Anyone seen or know of any good sales coming up?

Also, I'm in the market for wedding shoes (woohoo!). Do you guys have any recommendations? I want coppery gold rather than ivory/silver and I would prefer an open toe. I really like the Aquazzura Tequila sandals but for £1100 it's just too much :-(

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I would recommend Jimmy Choo as they seem to be (IMO) the comfiest designer heels! A lot of other websites do sales on JC as well, so worth finding a nice pair and then googling the name/product code to see if it's on sale anywhere

 

[Dizzy]

Wow, those are stunning. Another rec for Jimmy Choo - by far the most comfortable of heels for me.

 

[BlairWaldorf86]

Me, as a 25 year old wearing my Cartier and Van cleef bracelets, reading this chat

Just to offer a different perspective, honestly though, it might be where I’ve grown up or the people I’m surrounded by, but it’s quite normal to have Cartier/Van cleef bracelets and designer bags when you’re young, bought by your parents. I spent a lot of time in the UAE as well, and its not uncommon to see Chanel bags on young women or stacks of diamond jewellery or a Rolex on a 20 something year old. It is definitely very different in England!

Of course, if you’re working a part time, low wage job with a mortgage and kids and you have 3 VCA bracelets on, you’re not fooling anyone haha, I agree with you guys. But I’m sure people look at me (a student, who dresses casually, often no makeup, usually in scrubs ), and think my stuff is fake. But that’s fine, I probably don’t fit their usual image of someone who wears expensive designer jewellery but it won’t stop me wearing any of it

this is my stack today sorry if it’s basic as duck

Nooo I love your stack and it’s not too OTT, just one of each looks lovely!
But don’t you find it annoying that so many people are wearing fakes of those exact items now? I mean obviously you know yours are real and you probably don’t care what others think, but it must be a bit galling that these items are faked all over the place at the moment.

 

[Scorpihoe]

Nooo I love your stack and it’s not too OTT, just one of each looks lovely!
But don’t you find it annoying that so many people are wearing fakes of those exact items now? I mean obviously you know yours are real and you probably don’t care what others think, but it must be a bit galling that these items are faked all over the place at the moment.

Good question, honestly I never see people wear fakes, I think I may have seen a couple out in the wild?

i find it more awkward than anything! There was one time I was wearing my love bracelet and another girl was wearing one too, and someone else said “you guys are wearing the same bracelet!” And everyone at the table looked at the bracelets closely and hers looked way off…like not even a good fake, a really bad fake. And i don’t know why I felt really uncomfortable for her

But I mostly see fakes on social media, hardly ever in real life!

 

[TruffleShuffles]

Changing the subject.

Anyone seen or know of any good sales coming up?

Also, I'm in the market for wedding shoes (woohoo!). Do you guys have any recommendations? I want coppery gold rather than ivory/silver and I would prefer an open toe. I really like the Aquazzura Tequila sandals but for £1100 it's just too much :-(

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I love Sophia Webster bridal shoes. I had two ceremonies and found my SW Evangelines for the one ceremony more comfortable than the closed toe lace Jimmy Choos I wore for the other one.

 

[Scorpihoe]

Changing the subject.

Anyone seen or know of any good sales coming up?

Also, I'm in the market for wedding shoes (woohoo!). Do you guys have any recommendations? I want coppery gold rather than ivory/silver and I would prefer an open toe. I really like the Aquazzura Tequila sandals but for £1100 it's just too much :-(

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These were the shoes I had…

Engagement party:

wedding day:

we’re doing our legal marriage at the council next month, I need some shoes for that

 

[hytuhh]

These were the shoes I had…

Engagement party:
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wedding day:
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we’re doing our legal marriage at the council next month, I need some shoes for that

Manolo Blahnik 🤍 They are beautiful, love your taste!

 

[Scorpihoe]

Manolo Blahnik 🤍 They are beautiful, love your taste!

Thank you 🤍 I really like these too, they’re quite simple and understated!

 

[yankydoo]

Thank you 🤍 I really like these too, they’re quite simple and understated!

Looooooooove!

 

[OnlyHereForTheLolz]

I don’t care if people wear fakes. To each their own. You’ve got to remember a lot of these designers rip off smaller firms in terms of design

 

[BlairWaldorf86]

I’ve been thinking further on the young people being pressured to buy designer items thing (please ignore if not interested, or else feel free to start a thread if there is enough interest).

Spoiler: Off topic

As well as individual influencers, I think a lot of the blame lies with these aff link farm websites (can’t think of a better term, but the ones that are basically blogs/online magazines who get all their income from affiliates and spon con). Who What Wear, Sheerluxe, Wardrobe Icons etc. There’s an article on WWW today about the Matches sale and all the things they link are hundreds of pounds. They write about items as though everything is a “must have”, which is obviously their MO and how they make money, but I think it’s kind of morally dubious. I’m a reasonably high earner and have a few nice bits, but surely the people who are in a position to spend hundreds on a top or a blazer are like the 0.1%? Even I find myself feeling like I should be splurging on these items, before I catch myself on, and I’m 36.
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[Laughalong]

People that buy fakes are bleeping weird. It’s hilarious when people wear colour ways of bags that literally don’t exist like if I had £30-50 and needed to buy a bag, I’d just go to Zara or H&M? Why would I buy a fake LV and try and pass it off as real, because you can tell a mile away the difference in the quality of the print, colour and leather
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Personal fave

 

[Jmx]

Looking for nude sandals, how are we feeling about dad sandals? Over it?

 

[BlairWaldorf86]

I feel like sandals are still chunky-ish but less dad now, more sleek/luxe. This probably makes no sense

 

[TruffleShuffles]

I feel like sandals are still chunky-ish but less dad now, more sleek/luxe. This probably makes no sense

I think I get what you mean, the celine gladiators seem to be the sandal of the season so still on the chunkier side but more feminine than the dad sandal.

I still like the dad sandal and it seems like every designer has done their own version this summer so they are definitely still in but may not be after this year.

 

[spilltheteatime]

I’ve been thinking further on the young people being pressured to buy designer items thing (please ignore if not interested, or else feel free to start a thread if there is enough interest).

Spoiler: Off topic

As well as individual influencers, I think a lot of the blame lies with these aff link farm websites (can’t think of a better term, but the ones that are basically blogs/online magazines who get all their income from affiliates and spon con). Who What Wear, Sheerluxe, Wardrobe Icons etc. There’s an article on WWW today about the Matches sale and all the things they link are hundreds of pounds. They write about items as though everything is a “must have”, which is obviously their MO and how they make money, but I think it’s kind of morally dubious. I’m a reasonably high earner and have a few nice bits, but surely the people who are in a position to spend hundreds on a top or a blazer are like the 0.1%? Even I find myself feeling like I should be splurging on these items, before I catch myself on, and I’m 36.
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This really annoys me too. Wardrobe Icons in particular I used to love following as the idea was to just have a few well loved items that you choose again and again that should stay ‘timeless’. Seems like they just push so many links these days like the rest of them. They do love Loewe though and I much prefer to have a designer like that pushed on me than the likes of Chanel and Hermes.

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

I’ve been thinking further on the young people being pressured to buy designer items thing (please ignore if not interested, or else feel free to start a thread if there is enough interest).

Spoiler: Off topic

As well as individual influencers, I think a lot of the blame lies with these aff link farm websites (can’t think of a better term, but the ones that are basically blogs/online magazines who get all their income from affiliates and spon con). Who What Wear, Sheerluxe, Wardrobe Icons etc. There’s an article on WWW today about the Matches sale and all the things they link are hundreds of pounds. They write about items as though everything is a “must have”, which is obviously their MO and how they make money, but I think it’s kind of morally dubious. I’m a reasonably high earner and have a few nice bits, but surely the people who are in a position to spend hundreds on a top or a blazer are like the 0.1%? Even I find myself feeling like I should be splurging on these items, before I catch myself on, and I’m 36.
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Firstly calling anything an investment piece makes me die like you’re not curating a collection of coveted 90s catwalk pieces you’re buying some tit out a factory in Thailand that’ll be lucky to see the year through.

But I think the complete absence of like… idk bear with can’t think of how to describe this but an education piece around how much clothing we actually need and the planet can cope with and how to make clothing work for you beyond one season/trending moment? Like the issue here is actually due to the excessive volume that’s been normalised by social/media. Like people buying Shein or H&M hauls month in month out likely have a higher annual fashion spend than someone who buys one or two quality pieces every month or two. But there’s less desire for the latter cos of social media and these blogs as you point out. It’s why most ppl are more interested in lower price point items like logoed bags/accessories than anything else, they want to pair them with Shein outfits to stunt on Insta. I’m not a snob or from money at all (but we are lucky enough to have earnt our own) but it’s why I’ll never see some of these bags as covetable.

The other piece is - I also think there’s a lot of green washing + quality washing going on in luxury. Buying a bag that’s 10 * more expensive than the highstreet equivalent oftentimes isn’t any more sustainable, and tbh oftentimes isn’t even of higher quality. Increasingly there’s small indie designers or social enterprises that produce high quality clothes/accessories and ppl would be surprised at how accessible these can be (especially the latter). But yeah. Idk rambling sorry - I think it was @knivesnflowers who said she’s thinking of what to buy and yet has no desire such is the lay of the land these days. I’ve got 3/4 achievements/moments I’ve wanted to commemorate with a nice purchase but absolutely no desire sadly!

 

[BlairWaldorf86]

Omg me too, I’ve recently landed (what is hopefully ) my dream job and I left my current one yesterday, I feel like I ought to buy something special but it’s a fleeting thought, there’s nothing I NEED and there’s so much choice out there that it’s easier to just go “nah” and think about something else. (First world problems )