Only when a pally relationship has been established with a luxury sales associate (watch, fashion houses), then you are allowed to get an appointment to look at and touch the object of your desire. I wonder if bags, belts, costume jewellery and other accessories are part of luxury brand’s masstige strategy.
After all, these are fashion houses and they sell clothes as their main business, ready to wear and haute couture. But all they are really selling are bags because the bags are attainable goods. It bags have an identifible look – one can tell which brand it is. Just like their scarfs and belts and wallets. There are signs on those accessories to identify them as made by the brand. Generally luxury houses’ fashion-wear is not as attainable and for an ordinary person, it’s hard to signal being wealthy with the clothing label small and hidden away on the inside of the clothing unless it’s a t-shirt and has a logo on it.
Tangent: Following this line of thought, it makes sense that the brand needs to create artificial barriers of entry for someone who buys very little of their goods. It stretches the revenue for the house esp since this group is unlikely to buy their clothes.
Even in perfumery, there is a huge movement to minimise the sillage longevity of perfumes to skin scent and not longer than 1 hour plus charge significantly high amount. If you can can smell it on some stranger, that means he or she is in that strata of wealth that could afford the perfume, find it cheap enough to reapply and layer. The actual smell of money. If you own it but it disappears after 10 mins, you don’t have the smell of money on you.
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