Fashion question about rich people

Anyone wants to make an offer?

https://www.1stdibs.com/fashion/handbags-purses-bags/top-handle-bags/one-only-hermes-birkin-bag-30cm-matte-himalayan-crocodile-18k-diamond/id-v_272392/?utm_medium=pla&utm_source=google&utm_term=top-handle-bags&utm_content=easy-ship&product=v272392&gclid=CKK5vZ27ksUCFZBefgodwTgA1Q

"***NOTE: DUE TO THE RARITY AND HIGH VALUE OF THIS BAG IT WILL ONLY BE DELIVERED VIA BRINKS SECURITY TO NYC AT A MUTUALLY AGREED UPON LOCATION. "

No kidding!

The opening price of a simple leather Birkin bag is ~11K. Still a lot of money to be sure, but it’s not $95K.

^^^ well then ,I guess you should take that up with google, since it was the first thing to come up in the search

I don’t have a vested interest on the subject, I just wanted to pass the info along. :slight_smile:

My mother had an addiction to Chanel purses. When she became ill, I found 2 in her closet unused and managed to return them to Neiman Marcus.

So the bad news is it may be a sign of dementia 8-}

neither do I , but a couple the comments made suggested that I exaggerated or made it up, which is why I simply backed it up…the snark sometimes on these posts….

No one was suggesting that you made the price up; the point is that you were looking at the prices for bags made out of specialty skins like crocodile or ostrich with precious metal hardware, not the standard versions. The subsequent posts were simply meant to correct the false impression that you gave by pointing out that the regular leather Birkins run in the $15k range — yes, a (perhaps ridiculously) large amount of money but not the cost of a house.

How handy… A Forbes’ guide to buying a Birkin:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2013/09/19/how-to-buy-your-first-hermes-birkin/

I gave a " false impression " really ?? I simply responded to what I saw when I googled Birki bags. The page that came up clearly listed prices that started at $95G. Please forgive me that I didn’t look further into the more reasonable price of $11G-$15G for a handbag :wink: . I really don’t know why you found this so offensive not telling ? I don’t , but again, suit yourself and have a nice evening …

Interesting article on Goyard. I had not heard of them and I guess this is why.

http://www.racked.com/2014/9/3/7578483/goyard

Hi lje62 – i am sending you a pm. Did not mean to offend you.

I’d like to make a “meta-comment” on this topic. The title asks about what “rich” people wear. By CC consensus, our family is rich (laughing icon here). However, the OP’s opening post asked about “wealthy” people. We don’t fall into that category, though I suspect that a few CC’ers do.

I typically like and wear clothing that seems to me to be in the middle to upper-middle class category: Talbot’s, Jones New York, Ralph Lauren (not the extremely expensive items, but rather clothes like the $75 jeans). I used to wear Austin Reed before they went out of the women’s clothing business. I can tell the difference between these lines and more expensive clothing, but I don’t wear the more expensive stuff. I can also tell the difference between these lines and less expensive clothing. I have never had a handbag more expensive than one of the Coach bags that costs about $300. I have one at a time and they last for years. When the CC consensus classifies our family as “rich,” is this what people are thinking of? It is certainly comfortable, but I don’t think most people would consider this to be what “rich” people wear. Most of our other expenditures are made in the price brackets that correspond to this clothing range.

When I was dating my spouse-to-be, I thought that his family was rich, because the towels, rug, and shower curtain in their bathroom all matched. That was my old definition of “rich.”

Hope you will be feeling better soon, nottelling!

Clearly Google thinks that we are rich, because when I Googled Birkin bag, the first thing that came up was a 30 cm matte Himalayan crocodile 18K and diamond Birkin bag.

$450,000.
I think this is a real product, and not a joke.
I had heard of Birkin bags before this, but I did not know what one looked like. Next, I will look up generic Birkin bags.

There is no such thing as a generic Birkin. B-)

Kidding. They do come is brown leather without bling. :slight_smile:

http://www.yoogiscloset.com/hermes-35cm-chocolate-clemence-leather-palladium-plated-birkin-bag.html

I have known people who say, " if I had the money, I would never…"- buy such a large house, buy an expensive car, send my kids to private schools, buy an expensive watch, go on expensive vacations. " I would give it to a worthy cause." And then some of them became wealthy. And they moved to a bigger house and sent their kids to private schools, etc. and some were also very, very generous in their giving. And their time.

The point is, no one never knows how you will act if you earned much more than you are currently earning. Most of us have no idea what it is like to earn millions a year.

If you earned one million a year, that is a little over 19,000/week. Suppose take home about $10,000/ week every week. At this amount of income, would you live the same? Now double it,

No one knows how they would live if they earned a certain amount of money.

^^I would still not buy a Birkin because it simply weighs too much, but I would get a pair of Tributes in bright patent red. :wink:

True. But then again, there are some that really never do these things.

My aunt and uncle (dad’s best friend growing up, not bio) are very rich- maybe not wealthy but never-work-a-day-in-their-lives-again-if-they-wanted-and-still-live-it-up rich for sure. They live in a non-descript, 2-story, 3-bedroom house in a suburb in Ohio. They drive their cars 20+ years. Their only splurge, ever, was a Volt that my aunt recently bought herself (now in her 50s).

I, personally, think most people are fairly set in their ways by their 20s. Of course, there are always exceptions. But “rich” people tend to be those who were driven and wanted bigger and better “things” (whatever that “thing” was).

I lived with a bio uncle for a while who was very rich. Hated it. Hated everything about it. The kitchen was too far away, I hated having to walk across the house just to talk to people, etc. It was very lonely. It would take a major change of heart for both my partner and me in order to live that kind of lifestyle. Could it happen? Sure. Can I imagine it? Not in this lifetime.

I don’t begrudge anyone their choices. I don’t understand them, but I don’t begrudge them. I totally get that there are people who think I’m looney for not owning a purse- let alone having no flippin’ idea what a “Birkin” is. And that’s OK. To each his/her own.

I have an ad for Hermes bags, a first on CC

This is something I never understand. How do you match towels to shower curtain? I mean you change towel much more frequently than shower curtain.

Some on CC don’t begrudge people their choices, but they enjoy the moral superiority of not making the same ones!