The other day I went to Hancock Fabrics in Birm. Al for their fleace sale-54% off all fleace. Saw a very nice lady about 50yrs old with a beautiful pink paisley sort of bag. I told her "What a lovely bag you have, I love the colors and pattern. Would you mind telling me what pattern you used?" She looked me straight in the eye and said,"This is a Laura Ashley bag-and cost over $100." All I could think of to say was,"Well its still a beautiful bag." She stormed off. I have thought about this and everytime I do, I giggle.

wow..

I can buy a LOT of fabric for over $100.

Funny

Lololol!!!

:thumbup:

LOL!!!!

I had a lady look at a quilt that came "free" from an on line store that I bought a bunch of clothes and other necessities from. It was a bonus for spending over $100. I kept it and planned to use for a dog blanket. She went on and on about it and asked me if I could make her one and how much. It was ugly...cheap material and poorly made. Who can figure people out.
Sally

We have a little gift store down town that carries a huge selection of Vera Bradley bags. The prices are outragious, I saw a little change purse I liked, looked at price tag and almost fainted, LOL. So, I bought a pattern and made my own, now I prefer to make my own bags and spend the money on fabric.

Well excuse mmmeeee! As she proudly walked off! Just think how many we could make for 100.00! People are funny-who would of thought a Laura Ashley instead of a Vera Bradley!!

my 11yr old GD had to have a Vera Bradley laptop backpack So Pappy bought her one for school $100.00. He better not complain when I spend that much on quilting

I bet she took it home and never used it again.

I always tell the gals around here in the office you are only paying for the name, there is no love in those laura ashley or vera wang bags...and I tell them I could make the same bag for a fraction of what they paid for there bags....but some are just materialistic...I giggle at them too...

I know someone that is that way, too. Someone commented on her little daughter's dress and she said "It should be pretty for what we paid for it. It's a ???" and I can't remember the name. Can't believe so many people put so much emphasis on price.
D

i hear you on that - went in on a shower gift for a co-worker. she wanted a vera bradley diaper bag - cost around 125!!!! yikes - i kept thinking what a waste but she is one of those types. funny thing they said when they were buying it for her that she could use after the baby for a regular purse - haven't seen her carrying it into work yet!!!

What I couldn't do with 100.00 and my favorite on-line fabric stores!!!

For $100 you could have made FIVE of those bags...that is what angered her, IMO.
Michelle

My mom made me a Vera Bradley bag, with Vera Bradley fabric. I wish I would have thought of a good line when people commented on it. Instead, I just said, "Thank you, my mom made it for me." I ALWAYS get compliments on every purse she makes for me. Never do I get a compliment on purchased bags. I wanted to make my daughter (have my mom make) a diaper bag for her 1st child (girl). She instead went to Neiman (sp?) Marcus and got a Petuna Pickle Bottoms purse that was on a 'ridiculous sale'. They normally sell for $170.00!!!! She did not get that buying sense from her mother! She claims all her friends have it and they hold up really well.... kids these days.. (she's 25)...lol

I was in a Laura Ashely store....all the bags look production line constructed...not real wild about most of the fabrics she uses either. One of the cutest bags I ever made was made with fabric I found at a garage sale for 1.00 a yard LOL

How about the people that buy 100$ purses and then ask you to make one and when you tell them the price they just say oh that much. But will pay $$$$ for a name brand not handmade. I just shake my head.

Me too especially at 54% off-I got 28yds of Batiks the other day ago and after my Sr.discount and Preferred Customer disc. I only spent $49.08 yep I'm still walking on a cloud and patting myself on the back for saving over $175 :-) :-)

oh how funny....some people think we ALL wear/know name brands...to this day I think Vera Bradley bags are UGLY....and yet I have a friend that will pay $200 for one..WHY????

Wow, she sure missed a great compliment if she had just thought about what you said and what she could have said.
I would have said thank you so much for the compliment

She was a S N O B
with a capital "S".
J J

LMBO. She spent that much on a bag that someone had the audacity to think is home made. Poor thing. (Not really) She sounds pretty materialistic (and I don't mean that in the complimentary fabric way...)

My DD had the same experience complementing a woman on her quilted purse. "your purse is beautiful! Did you make it?"

Woman answers very huffy"I did NOT! It's a Vera Wang!"

DD said 'Oh. never mind then"

I am about to give my sister a Charm Party Tote and she has owned more than one Vera Bradley. Maybe I should rethink this?

I grew up hearing my father say: "Some people have more money than since". The older I grow, the more I see the absolute reality of that. it is sad, eh?

That is so funny, name brand snob. $100 can buy a lot of fabric. I love tje Bow Tuck I made and then a friend bought it from me (price of the materials). Now I need to make another one. Darn! LOL!!!

oops, sorry for the double.

We have Donna Sharp, she has her office and warehouse here in Shepherdsville, Ky, her fabrics are much prettier than vera Bradley, Donna started out in a loft office in her husbands flooring store-teaching quilting. She also makes quilts, jackets, purses, napkins, wallhangings and numerous other quilt things, she has shops that sale her things in Gatlinburg, Tennesse, and various other places, she also is online of course. I do make some of my own bags-but also buy hers, hers aren't $100 a piece- I wash them in machine and air dry hold up fine.

When I was a girl, dresses, skirts and sweater sets were the rule in school attire. We did not have the money for much -- I babysat and picked berries for clothes money. I bought one Janzen sweater set as a basis for my wardrobe and then went to the remnant counter and bought material for skirts, blouses and dresses that coordinated. I made the dresses, blouses and skirts to go with the sweaters -- similar to what was commercially available but with some embellishment. My wardrobe budget generally was less than $25 for the school year, but it looked like I spent a fortune. When I was complemented on my clothes and asked where they could buy something similar, I honestly replied that they were one of a kind.

This reminds me of the Pierre Deux purses - they are quite pricey as well. We used to make quilts with their scraps from the Boston store - it was $28 a yard back in 1980. Check out how much it costs now and quit yer bellyachin' about LQS prices!!

http://www.pierredeux.com/french-cou...ing-fabrics/26

Laura who???

Once a year Vera Bradley has a 2 or 3 day sale at the War Memorial Coliseum here in Ft. Wayne, In., with every thing they make at 1/2 price, with some of it being discontinued items, and discontinued prints. It is wall-to-wall crowds, with buses from all over the state, and some from out of state. Every thing use to be made here in Ft. Wayne, now a lot of its made in China.

People who are very concerned about how expensive their stuff is need to put signs on the items in question: This is a Laura Ashley bag. or This bracelet is real diamonds! or This dress is a Giorgio Armani. That way, the hoi polloi (that's us) wouldn't offend them. I love your flabberghasted comment. At that point, I'd probably have thought (if not said) "Well, who'd have guessed it?" But then Texans are sort of mouthy. :lol:

Boy she seemed a little grumpy. lol

I could so make my dream quilt with that much money! lol

For a 11 yr old!!! What is this world coming to? I hope she didn't trade with a friend and never get it back. Kids have no concept of what it takes to make a 100.oo.

lol. know what you mean though my sons wife is a sweetheart but she knows all the brand names i just told her if i wanted on name on my butt i would put my own.i wonder of you that make your own bags what would happen if you put your name on it and when someone ask where you got it just say a shop on whatever street your fabric store is on. i wonder if they would look for it?

snobs really kill me-lol! no common sense at all, and too self absorbed. when I I try to be nice and compliment someone and they huff at me with their price tags, I always say: Oh, I thought I recognized the (pattern, fabric, designer trademark or whatever) I just bought the same thing at a yard sale, thrift store, dumpster diving - for 1.50$ whatever would drop their jaw the lowest. sharet