Interests is a bit of an odd choice of word, perhaps obsession is better?

Brand Bags

Have you ever heard about this? Where just money is not good enough. It shows the kind of circles I move in and ever since reading about it, I’m fascinated.

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/apr/10/birkin-bag-hermes-lawsuit

So, if you go on the sub-reddit about this, people on there talk about having to do a pre-spend of thousands ($10,000+) within a certain time frame, in a certain shop with your specific sales assistant (and people seem to have their number and text them and call it ‘working with them’) before you are ‘allowed’ to buy a bag. I honestly have never heard anything like it! Who is spending this kind of money? I think even if I were a millionaire (and I mean £100 million+ at least), I just don’t think I could.

Then there’s the ribbon/scarf things called ’twillies’ and they are about $250 at least each, they say (it all seems to be in dollars) and they get tied around the handles. For reference, I’m currently using a bag I made out of old jeans…

Emily (feeling extremely perplexed and slightly self-conscious)