Nic Narrates

I have a bone to pick with Anya Hindemarch.

Ever since Kiera Knightley trotted out her “I’m not a plastic bag” somber, somewhat drab, canvas tote, Anya’s garnered mad street cred. She sold out of her modestly-priced (£7) stock of said bag in the UK. I’m not sure if it was the reasonable price point or the need to be “green,” but I too have fallen under the spell of the “I’m not a plastic bag” craze.

I read an article in Vogue about the popularity of the bag–yes, Vogue has more than glossy four-color masterpieces from Gucci and D&G, there are in fact things to read! I gleaned from the article that Ms. Hindemarch would be again offering a bag, but to other countries, with a special US version beginning in June.

What luck, I told myself as I counted the bag as good as mine.

Despite my early efforts at joining the mailing list, pre-ordering, and receiving regular updates on the impending sale, I recieved an alert from anyahindemarch.com that their “infrastructure” simply could not support the forecasted consumer interest of an online sale and would therefore not be selling a bag for everyone who had ordered one online. There would be a………lottery.

Damn it, I thought. I never win anything! And I didn’t. GRRRRRRR…

But I did win the company cookout door prize, and am looking forward to a day of fun in the sun with my new bottle of bubbles and water guns. (I’ll be carrying them in my free tote from the last conference I attended.)

Now, I wonder if those who won the “lottery,” will actually use the canvas tote for, you know…produce and such?

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