Nicky's Rag Tales

DIOR (the real deal)

I’ve been thinking about ethics and morality and everything in between in the past few days. Penney’s AKA Primark being cited by ‘Friends of The Earth’ for paying their Bangladesh workers so little they were starving. A visit to a friends house where ‘Fake’ Bags were on sale and my purchase of shoes (in Penney’s, see earlier post) for 5euro. I think I’m a little shallow as I’m a sucker for a bargain and am still felling a bit guilty about the Penney’s puchase. But I think that for me it’s not about the law or even about the ethics. I apply the same principals to food. I buy organic and free range not because of the poor animals but because of the quality of the products and the taste on my plate. I would love to have strong ideals that wouldn’t allow me to darken Penney’s door or buy clothing which wasn’t made of organic cotton hand picked by well paid happy people and transported by boat powered only by wind.

The truth is I love good quality clothes and accessories. A ‘fake’ plastic bag at 70 euro just doesn’t do it for me and anyway I can’t see that those bags are in any way competing with the real thing.

By the way I couldn’t bear to take a photo of cheap fakes hence the Dior picture above….. Have a great weekend everyone.

I spent some time today in my local shopping centre, just browsing and sifting my way through the rails in all the chain stores. I bought a beautiful pale gold shift dress from young Irish designers Kate and Ava some weeks ago. A classic shift with lovely detail on the shoulders and a deep V at the back. This dress will be worn over and over and was well worth the money spent on it. Clever accessorising of classics are what will take a dress like this to different events and so when I picked up a pair of shoes in Penney’s I instantly thought that these would be perfect with the dress. I tried them on and they fitted like a glove. It’s not true that expensive shoes are somehow comfortable and my collection of hardly worn designer shoes is testament to this. These babies ( I’m a sucker for leopard print) were marked at 19 euro and I thought that’s cheap. When I got to the till the assistant said ‘that will be 5 euro please’. 5 euro !!!! You wouldn’t have much change from that if you bought a cappuccino! I think I just found my inner recessionista.

Kate and Ava dress (mine is in pale gold)

Shoes 5 euro Penneys