Labels, Names, and New York.

Labels.
Just like on Sex and the City!
What are labels about? TV.
Taste.
Value.
But also, and more importantly, the way it makes you feel. The fact that something wasn't just mass produced and sold to millions of people at the low, low price of $29.99. The fact that you have something... that your friends haven't been thinking about picking up at Wal-Mart. The fact that odds are against the girl in the cubicle behind you showing up to work with your new handbag. And the fact that your man's ex is jealous of those shoes, and thinks they must be knock-offs.
Wouldn't it just be so...
Amazing!
To be able to dress yourself, head to toe, in a breathtaking designer... ANYTHING!
Labels. Knowing who designed what you put on. Knowing if it's a well known and respected designer... or someone that will become the next big splash because it was YOU who wore her new sunglasses and talked up a storm about the cute handbag you found.
Labels.
Not to mention the pure fun of putting an outfit together. Not to mention the joy of matching and mixing accessories, and shoes in a way that makes you feel like a designer too.

I never really noticed it before, or cared, but I have a purple frames eyeglasses by Calvin Klein. I'm not sure what that means... but I do know who I'm wearing... as apposed to those nameless frames I wear more often. My handbag for the past year has been a Wal-Mart clone... not that I've seen anyone else with one, but there were only two left when I got mine... so I'm sure they are floating around out there... But maybe the fact that it's a white bag means that those people got them dirty, or felt to shy to use it much. Who knows. Point is, as great of a bag as it is... I have no idea where the design came from!
But today. Oh today! I found a beautiful navy faux gator skin by Rosetti New York. It's not a big deal, it probably came from Target, Sears, or some where like that, a little bit more prestigious then Wal-Mart. But it has a name. And it makes me happy. It makes me feel like I could be a New Yorker someday. That's what I want, even just for a little while.