Why is buying a fake handbag more exciting than buying a real one?
Picutre from www.wherethenighttakesyou.blogspot.com Buying fake handbags is a contact sport in Chinatown. On a daily basis, groups of (mostly) women from all over the country bob and weave through the Canal Street crowds, many snapping up garbage sacks full of counterfeit products to take back home and sell on at ‘purse parties’. Just as it was with music piracy, handbag piracy has birthed an underground subculture, and Canal Street is the nerve center. So nothing seemed out of the ordinary about the cluster of women descending on a handbag vendor at the corner of Broadway and Canal one Saturday back in June. But something strange was going on. These particular women were running faster than everyone else, desperate to get to this particular vendor before anyone else, and the first five in line were elated when they discovered the particular purses they were looking for were there. Because not only were these designer handbags real, they had been put there by the designer herself. The
