To show you how much I love my new bag??

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I also fell in love with my other Gucci bag at the same airport...

This has always been my sense too, it’s not really about how it looks at all but the feeling of exclusivity. Which makes no sense to me because you end up looking a way you don’t actually like.

In a world that’s currently got far too much despair, suffering and destruction in it, grab all the happiness you can. Enjoy your bag and your trip OP

Oh here we go. I can assure you plenty of 'old money' love a good bit of bling. You are talking about old money who are asset rich but cash poor. Plenty of asset rich cash rich money are extremely happy to spend money on labels. The former simply don't have the means to buy stuff

I really like it! Enjoy your holiday x

Tacky is of course subjective. I find these logos tacky. But I have a bright pink plastic pineapple on a shelf and some other tat which I know are tacky. If someone told me that they hated my plastic pineapple and said it was tacky, I would agree! I would still love it though.

I like the bag. And I like oysters and champagne very much.

Out of my price range but why not if it brings you joy!

I've never been a fan of Gucci (bags) but I like that for a spring summer bag to wear with a cute flippy summer dress somewhere in the bright sunshine.

Enjoy your hols OP. Hope the oysters don't come back to haunt you!

Absolutely. I'm not sure who this old money is that MNers like to bang on about but I know an awful lot of the titled types and they have wardrobes that make me go weak at the knees. And personal relationships with Chanel, Oscar DLR, Dior, Bottega, Loro Piana etc. no tweed held together with safety pins or beaten up old Volvos

God yes and this.

Life is really properly quite shit right now. Take happiness where you can by the bloody throat, I say.

Your experience of the landed gentry is very different from mine. Funny isn't it. Yours are all worn tweed, mine is Dior.

The ‘rich people don’t…’ always makes me laugh, as if rich people don’t do, or buy, whatever the fuck they want.

quite - it’s such a weird myth, combined with the idea that somehow the old money set with their “beaten up Volvo and granny’s cashmere” who inherited their wealth are better than the the sales manager or builder who have actually worked for their money. Such bullshit.

OP it’s a great bag - enjoy it

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Andthereyougo I don't know if you were being funny, but that statement made me smile :)

Alexa ís the name of a bag.

I know. I will have one some day I can justify it!

@InterIgnis Also, class doesn’t denote wealth. A lot of the sneering against ‘the flashy’ is often a case of sour grapes because ‘new money’ has popped up with more money than them, and thus needs to be put in their place.

Absolutely. But bizarrely lower middle class people who can't afford any of it love to trott out the narrative created by old money about new money.

It's flipping weird when it's spat out by 'no money' people 😂 trying to act all superior while scrabbling about carrying their Asda bag

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😁 If it's not the roof, it's the rising damp, the woodworm, the windows. That's just parcel of owning a mansion house.

Also they don't really heat the houses, yes it's back tie, but Jesus have your thermals under and a wool wrap or you will get hypothermia. Large houses, even back in the time of servants and cheap coal were never warm, it's background heat.
It might not make sense to you, as I said it's a different world. Yes you maintain the boat and still go shooting and hire a shooting lodge or giant house. Yes you ski every year etc because that's what is done.

A different world. Lovely and interesting to have a taste of it though.

Thisssss!

The fawning on MN over so-called 'old money' drives me potty. As though inherited wealth is somehow more morally superior than earned wealth. When in reality the origins of family money is often so murky. And all that tosh about the poshos only wearing ancient cashmere and ancient Barbours and smiling benignly at everyone at the summer fete. Whilst the new money family were head to toe in Versace and taking turns to spit on the little old lady at the tea stall.

Give me strength.

I'm sorry, I don't like this kind of post. I don't begrudge OP the bag, but posts like this just make people who would love a similar bag (or another Gucci bag, or the oversized Alexa that the OP is apparently already carrying), and who just don't have that sort of money, really miserable.

There's excited, happy sharing, which is lovely, and there's gloating, which isn't.

Lovely bag but not keen on the colour - although it does match Liverpool's away kit.

Well done you Reds!

Absolutely. But bizarrely lower middle class people who can't afford any of it love to trott out the narrative created by old money about new money

Agree, the narrative might have been created a century ago by old money but it is almost entirely perpetuated by the lower middle classes now. It’s absolutely routed in jealousy and so weird.

All money, no class 💁🏼‍♀️

Yup, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a so called expert ever actually be old or new money tbh.

I’m admittedly the dreaded new money (and imported too! Even worse!) but in my not insubstantial experience of old money, I’ve never known someone not buy a Gucci or LV they liked because it was Gucci or LV.

Yes but this is what I mean- it’s not a different world to me, it’s the people who I grew up with.I don’t know these falling apart and cold houses. This is what I think @tutttutt said what you’re describing sounds like they’re asset rich and cash poor, so the owning the boat with staff etc. doesn’t really make sense to me, it’s just such a disconnect to my own experience, that’s all.

Yup! It’s funniest when it comes from someone that on one hand claims to be against the class system, yet will very quickly turn around and use it in an attempt to pull rank on the upstarts.

I don’t like it.

Also they don't really heat the houses, yes it's back tie, but Jesus have your thermals under and a wool wrap or you will get hypothermia. Large houses, even back in the time of servants and cheap coal were never warm, it's background heat

more weird stereotypes

It’s a lovely bag OP! Just because it’s out of my budget doesn’t mean I begrudge you enjoying it 👜 (Although YABU not to put this thread in style and beauty where it belongs!)