So, if recent reports are true, the IT bag is once again in fashion and you can kiss goodbye to your investment pieces in favour of one hit wonders. How disgusting. A bag is for life, not just a season guys. My mother’s blush pink Bayswater has seen no fewer than four YEARS on the back bowed elbows of two generations, and with a little leather polish and a lot of love, the bag does good. So what do a few biro marks matter, the odd scuff or lost screw? I don’t see what’s so wrong with things that last. For someone so utterly engrossed in the frivolous world of fashion, I for one find it excruciatingly frustrating having more than two bags on the go at one time. Where’s my lip balm, my oyster card, my wet wipes and the hundreds upon thousands of receipts/shopping lists/sweet wrappers that I hold so dearly to my heart and cart around with me on a daily basis (the weight of which must equal a small baby marsupial…or possibly two)? I’ll tell you. They’d be spread about in ANOTHER past season bag, that’s where. Probably lurking, dejected, at the back of my wardrobe, plotting it’s dramatic re-entry to my life, where upon it scatters said lip balm (now old), oyster card (now replaced), wet wipes (dried up) and hundreds upon thousands of receipts/shopping lists/sweet wrappers all over my floor right when I don’t need it to. PAH. I don’t need that in my life, no siree. I’d rather stay devoted to my happy balding Bayswater and 2.55 if it’s all the same to you.
Having said all this, I’ll happily lust after your filthy one season stand IT bags if you can’t hack monogamy accessory relationships! An IT bag must be three things; extravagant, divine and, most likely, colourful. They are the prick teases of the fashion world, so don’t expect your love to last long.
Mulberry Alexa clutch £430
Deerskin Miu Miu bag £970
Judith Leiber beehive £4320
Marc by Marc Jacobs bag £385
All images courtesy of netaporter
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