The Final Countdown

The BUY TWO GET ONE FREE sale is ending. I loved doing it but I am so glad it's almost over.  Man, that has been a very successful promotion.

I am exhausted.  So much for taking the summer off :)

Folks, you got about 2 days to get over to the site (which is ALSO undergoing some VERY BIG changes) to buy your bags and get your order in.  I cannot extend the special for any period of time.

Once the special is over, it's over!

Happy Shopping!!

Wowee!

Good to see so many people into the Burberry coat from the previous post.  It is a beauty.  Now, I might have forgot to write that it is a FALL coat, not a winter coat.  Fall at best.  Costa Rica winter sure.  Canada winter  - NO.  Winter would laugh at that coat and give you frost bite in three minutes flat!

So the coat is sold out!  That is how positive the response has been.  Here's the new item. And here's an incentive to buy it.

Buy the Gucci skirt and get a $25.00 gift certificate to use on either site!!  Yes, buy this skirt:

which comes in size SMALL, MEDIUM OR LARGE, where SMALL is a Size 2, Medium is a size 4 and LARGE is a size 6 (what kind of world do we live in when a LARGE is size 6?  Sheesh!).  Sorry folks, do not hate on me.  I do not design or make these babies.  I just try to offer them to you.

The skirt is $100.00USD and includes shipping to Canada and the US.

I own this skirt.  I got it about 2 months ago and in the heat I have not been able to wear it at all.  It's wool for the love of God. 

I just wore it today (hence the reason I am offering it for sale) and it is MARVELLOUS.  You ever get that kind of wool where it's actually comfortable.  Where you're not scratching inappropriately because the fabric is killing you?

This is that good wool.  I love it.  I have it on with nylons but I could actually wear this without and still not feel itchy.

Folks, I am being honest when I say I am a proud size 4 for the past 20 years but in this skirt I'm sportin' a size 6 (that means at five feet tall I'm a LARGE - nice!).

It is cut teeny tiny.  The House of Gucci must be run by supermodels, who due to sheer hunger, are not very forgiving. 

Happy Shopping!!

Okay, Let's Try This

So yesterday I posted something about selling clothes and since yesterday I have been PLEASANTLY inundated with queries about clothes.  I so want to sell them. I just don't have a good system in place.  So for now I am going to pull a BEYOND THE RACK type system where I'll put a couple of things up for sale at a time for a very discounted price.  If you like it, you get it.  If you are unsure, don't get it.  Tomorrow is another day and more stuff will be up. 

I will be HONEST about sizing.  Designers for years have been criticized because they cut things too small.  Your average GAP small is NOT a designer small.  No way.  No how.  A designer small is size 0.  Plain and simple.  I take a size 4.  I am five feet tall.  I can barely get my fat ass (or it feels like it at the time) into many of the Large sized items that the designers have up.  Trust.  It's infuriating.  That is why I am trying to focus on coats and accessories.  Lord help us when we get into pants and dresses. 

So here is today's item. I'll have it on sale for a few days. 

Burberry Fall Coat.  The drab pictures first.

And the jazzed up, hot model pictures:

This coat would normally retail for $250 WITHOUT A DESIGNER named attached.  The actual Burberry coat is over $1000USD. 

I'm going to offer the coat for $135USD (that includes shipping only - I've inspected this coat more times than I'd like to admit) over the next couple of days.  THAT IS A VERY LOW PRICE for a coat.  I'm just trying to build up confidence FOR MY OWN SELF for selling online. I'm still very skeptical about it succeeding in this medium, but stranger things have happened.

If you want the coat, hit me up!

Happy Deal of the Day Shopping!!

Not Even Half Joking...

There are definitely better times of the year to buy a replica bag than others.  For instance, September is a good time to buy a replica bag.  Here's why.  The summers are slow and there are no real new styles to choose from.  The actual designers are just starting fashion shows and will be showing off 2011 styles shortly.  The factories have all summer to use up old stock and to mark it down or get rid of it completely so that they can make room for the new stuff that is about to be produced.  At the same time, September is a big time of change for most people around the world.

Most of us are getting ready to send the kids back to school, wind down from summer activities and a lot of us are getting ready to get back to regular work hours.  Sure we continue working in the summer but with vacations, half days, long weekends and barbecues, every one knows that summer work ain't like winter work.

Studies done in the past show that it's around September that we feel we need to buy most of our clothes, undergo changes in our lives, better ourselves with higher education or take on adventures like travel.  It feels like more people find September a time to carry out "New Year" resolutions.  Having said that, it is around this time that the general public consumes the most.  In fact many markets bank on late August early September as the periods that will help them peak with positive numbers.

Okay, where am I going with this?  Well, with the extra consumption, comes the need to make more product.  It is therefore an excellent time to get a NEW and well made replica.  Not the junky left over pieces.  Not something that's sat around for weeks to months.  NEW.  Freshly made.  A replica is not fresh baked bread but it should be treated as same.  A bag that gets to lie around for awhile is more susceptible to damage, wear and tear and stress.  Who wants that?

So without rambling on for a day and a half about that, here's what I'm trying to say.  If you have been wanting a Chanel Classic Flap bag, get it now.  NOW.  The factory just finished making a brand new heap of them.  Here are the preliminary pictures.  You tell me how good these look!  All these bags are the W25×H17×D7cm size (the LARGE ones on the site).  All these bags will be up shortly.

And here are the Mini Chanel Classic Flap bags

Get 'em while they are hot off the press...literally!

Lord Help Me! Gianmarco Lorenzi!!

I pray to thee, Lord, in heaven to help me make it across the street in these!

If I make it alive, I will ditch these shoes and hail a taxi in my bare feet!

Wow!

What a shoe.  I'm missing my hipster life!  I would wear these till the cows came home...15 years ago.  Sorry man but once you discover the comfort of flat or wedge shoes, it's so hard to go back to these "sure to kill every nerve in my foot" beauties!

My husband saw these and well, being male, he LOVES THEM.  Yeah.  He has no idea how much these puppies would hurt.

He's male.  Visual.  Simple.

I love these shoes.  I love, love, love them. I am so tempted to get them.  These are Gianmarco Lorenzi.  If you're into shoes, these names will resonate high and mighty.  Not to be a shoe snob but once you get to know some of the MAJOR designers of shoes in the world, including Balmain, Belstaff, Guiseppe Zanotti, Jeffrey Campbell, Jannifer Modo, Sergio Rossi, Louboutins and Jimmy Choos don't seem all that spectacular.

DO NOT GET ME WRONG.  Jimmy Choo makes some AMAZING shoes.  All I am saying is that there is a whole heck of a lot more out there than just Jimmy and Christian.  And a lot of it is more shoe "art" than it is shoes.  It's unreal how talented some of these other shoe makers are. 

A lot more!

I will be putting up a lot of designers on the new site today.  I will let you in on a secret too.  Shoes will be going on sale very soon!  Like very very soon.

Deceit

You know what kills me?

This kills me.  If  I showed you this coat in these pictures as is,

99.9% of you would never ever buy this coat.  Don't worry, I'm in the 99.9% of you!  Even if I told you that the coat is a Chloe design and is worth a fortune.  You'd look at me and say, umm, no thanks.  And I'd get that, looking at that picture.  Then I'd try to sell you on it and say, but look at the back!

I'd say this coat makes a person.  It flatters most figures.  It's really pretty in real life.  And no doubt, you'd spit in my eye or think I had no sense of fashion whatsoever.  Trust me.  I'd be feeling the same way.  In those pictures, the coat is lying flat or is hanging from a hanger.  It has no shape.  No form and it doesn't show off it's salient points. 

It's a hard sell.

That is until you get a Nordic beauty with 7ft long legs, a 24" waist and a face that would launch a 1000 ships.

Then my friends, you get this:

I've been wrestling with the idea of selling clothes to the masses online.  I have no problem when buyers come to me and want 20,000 units of coat A and 30,00 of coat B.  Buyers know what to look for and even the first two pictures would be all that a buyer needs to see if determine if a) it's a coat in style today b) is a coat that will sell to their demographic and c) if the want to request a sample to feel the make and fabric.  Buyers are trained to do that.

I have realized over the past year of internet sales, the masses, the general public is NOT trained to do that.  No harm in this at all.  I am the queen of buying stuff from a store and taking it back.  See the difference is that the store is a short walk or a drive away.  I buy it.  I take it back.  I do all the work to complete the return. 

So I'm trying to develop a system where I can offer you AWESOME clothes. I mean awesome clothes, without incurring huge costs for YOU and me due to wrong sizing, wrong colour representation, etc. and shipping back and forth.

I'm thinking of featuring an item (items with model pics obviously because as you can  see unless you see a gorgeous babe wearing the item, it just looks drab and ugly), having it available in S, M and L sizes here with me and then sending it out to you to take a look at.


The service would only cost what shipping costs.  So if it costs me $20.00 to get a coat to you then I'd charge you $20.00 for the item and if you like it, then you keep it and only then I charge the full cost (Nothing on my site will be over $130.00 - unless it's a Herve Leger dress or a Moncler jacket).  I am trying to keep costs and prices down.

Does anyone have a better idea?  Can you run it by me. I have been researching retail sites (small ones - not Nieman Marcus or Sears - umm, I'm not those guys) and I got this system from one of them.

What I don't want is the frivolous order maker.  You know the one that immediately likes an item, places and order and then realizes the rent is due.  That is why the initial shipping cost is in place - to deter that kind of person.

The shipping cost however is low enough that if you really don't like an item or it just does not look good on you, then you can return it and not feel like you are out a huge amount of money.

That fee however makes people be picky enough that everyone orders carefully with the good intent to buy and keep an item.

If anyone, ANYONE, has some suggestions, please contact me.

Happy Shopping...I hope!!

LV Gem

I swear I must have been dozing or completely out of it.  I had this bag in my hands (when I got all the new-ish Speedy 35 sized bags) and I totally forgot about it.  I'll tell you why I forgot about it. I had a girlfriend, RACHEL, "steal" both bags from me.  Yes, I went there.  Well she paid me for them but I totally forgot I had them in my possession.

Man, the Alzheimer's is starting to kick in early with me.  I remember even thinking to myself, Oh man I cannot wait to share this beauty the gang!

So without further ado, here is the gem:

Wow!

What a bag.  It's everything I love about designer bags and then not.  It's LV Monogram without all the LV Monogram.  Get what I mean?  It's having the designer touch but without trying too hard to fit in.  It's about being different enough to have your own style without needing to fit in and it's about carrying that difference with pride.

Love this bag.  Usually hate, HATE Speedy anything.  Will be getting this bag again since RACHEL stole my other ones ;)

This one is black and orange

But it also comes in a dark brown (swoons) and blue (double swoon)!

Absolutely awesome quality since I called RACHEL this morning and she's been using her bag non stop since April.  She reports back that it breaks in nicely and that the leather gets better looking with wear and tear.

This bag, because it's SUPERIOR quality and because it's all leather and because the US dollar is at an all time low (trust me I hate this too), is a bit on the pricey side at $260.00USD (for a Speedy handbag) but that includes the shipping and the inspection service.  The latter is to ensure you don't have to deal with customs, you don't have to deal with duty and you know that I have personally inspected the bag to ensure it is of top quality.

Both bags are now on the site, ready to buy!  See the black and orange one here, the dark brown and blue one here. 

Happy Shopping!!