{"id":951,"date":"2008-06-25T23:25:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T07:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=951"},"modified":"2008-06-25T23:25:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T07:25:41","slug":"the-handbag-subterfuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/the-handbag-subterfuge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Handbag Subterfuge"},"content":{"rendered":"

None of us like Handbag Snobbery (unless we are the ones disparaging someone else’s choice of handbag.) I don’t even like it when a person praises my handbag, for god sake. When Susie B<\/a> wrote about suffering the disdainful gaze of two awful Handbag Snobs on a train, my heart went out to her. \u00a0 I should start making little badges that say “Please don’t stare at my handbag.”<\/p>\n

It’s a difficult situation if you care about style and fashion. I love my bags for being both beautiful and expensive. I love them for being not the ones that are obvious and popular. But on some occasions, I don’t want the burden of my enormous handbag. So I pack my essentials into a bag that I selected for it’s stomach-turning ugliness.<\/p>\n

Check out its ugly features. The flower thing made out of a zipper, the studded wristlet, the gold handcuff things dangling there for no reason, and the purple plastic that is actually transparent even though you can’t tell from the picture. It is eight X five inches of pure eyesore. \u00a0 All that for $11.<\/p>\n

And speaking of eyesore, today at the mall I walked past a shoe-store window and was assaulted by a vision from hell itself: Gladiator sandals in a rainbow of awful colors, signifying to me that gladiators have not only jumped the shark, they have eaten and regurgitated the shark. Behold the wares of Shiekh shoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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