This morning.
Discount designer handbag seeking shoppers, including many who travelled from China, at Brown Thomas, Grafton Street, Dublin for the first day of its January sale.
From top: pre-opening; Marichu Echenes; Unidentified; Iri Wen; Unidentified; Jane Ng; Michelle Ho and Cecilia Luk
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
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Can someone explain to me why they come all the way from China? Also, how do communists afford to fly and buy these bags?
Communist only insofar as they are a one party state
It’s their own version of Communism where they get all the monies and keep all the controls.
That’s every version.
They make those bags, then they fly over here and buy them. Puzzling.
It’s a typo. All the way from CARLOW. Chinese people live there too.
The Chinese are a sad bunch. Treat people, animals and the environment like shit. Status through Western brands is all they care about.
Do you mean all 1.3 billion of them or just the ones your related to?
He’s gonna need a bigger brush!
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, are these the same ‘Western brands’ that Chinese children make in factories??
Lol. Communism is as relevant as democracy at this stage.
Saddos.
Shut up.
I’d ride any one of them if they can catch me before I’m sober..
I’m NEVER sober.
Ha ha!
…and I can run slow…
Crikey
Dail bar still closed then?
What???
Not even a blowjob?
-Stick your Merry Christmas back up yer hole.
Lads, this is why we drink, ammintInotrite?
yES i AM
Blokes. burn your underpants.
It worked before with the bras.
Look it up, trust me…it actually happened..
Take them off first.
Check back in the New Year, yeah?
(Take them off first.)
You ruin crack cocaine for everyone don’t you?
Slow down cowboy..
I’ve just spent a few hours with a homeless person that I never met before tonight.
He’s calling back to me tomorrow with a bunch of laptops, and I’m gonna clear the passwords off them.
And you can f*** off…
Happy Christmas/New Year, whatever.
Mi cum fe rock ‘n’ shock de nation…
…with version…
…inna murderous style..
So bong-bong diddely bong to you and all your loved ones.
Bong-bong diddely bong is all you’ll ever get from me, so never push it.
I genuinely have contempt for those who shop on Stephens day
Don’t worry, Penneys will be open tomorrow for you.
I fear that Penneys comment says a lot more about your snobbery than Lucys bitterness.
What time do you finish your shift in Dunne’s?
I’m not bitter. I ate and drank all day, yay!, but I find peoples need to shop every day of the year contemptible.
I’m wi’ Goosie on this
Why and how could anyone even be arsed going into town for 9am on a bank holiday.
And this gobshittery of a 7am kick off in Next… For Sale Items! BTW Sale Items = Outlet Factory Shop Quality. They are just taken the piss as well as your cash, for shittie shit mass produced inferior quality shite.
I’ve never been in a Harvey Norman, ta’ück if I’m leaving my fireside, juicy leftovers, twinkly lights and an excuse for midday Snowball to shuffle around a retail estate….
At least those girls in BTs are on Holidays, of a sort, and acquiring some serious investment quality, luxury branded, established 2nd hand market, and it must be said, nice, handbags.
Weird that Broadsheet do not provide the names of those in photos – guess this would not happen if these were white Irish shoppers
Jesus, now that you say it, even the Christmas outfit doggies were named.
Bet they would if they were Americans. Plus, the title would be also be: “Gee, Bagsy It’s Mine”. (did you see what I did there?)
Thanks Jack Rabbit, Derek and Hashtag Diversity. All the names available are there now. Sorry.
Thanks. Lol.
In case anyone thought I was serious, I was takin’ the p*ss out of that ridiculous comment from Jack Rabbit. Yeah, I know, but these people need it explained.
Come to think of it, I bet those names are made up. No one has a name ‘Ho’.
Miss Ho. I’m a Ho, from out East. No way.
No offence to any Ho’s.
Or is that Hoes?
I just don’t get the fascination with bags!
Ride Me
Ride me sideways was another one
Two contributory reasons why they are mainly Asians:
– Non-EU citizens can claim VAT back on purchases over a certain amount when leaving the country. (essentially duty-free shopping)
– Brown Thomas, from what I have been told, are also in South Korea. They are considerably more expensive there than in Ireland (even including Irish VAT).
That is why you get crowds of Asians (or South Koreans!) queuing outside Brown Thomas. They are getting right bargains (relatively speaking) and im sure all their families are asking them to bring back Gucci this and Gucci that at knock down prices.
I always thought myself that it was due to consumerist nouveau riche Chinese attitudes but what I have been told above adds some context and some sense to it.
Even if that is the case, the reason they do this is because they are obsessed with brands. It was no secret they are getting a bargain.
You can apply that to any consumer economy, same way Irish people go over to the US with empty suitcases.
They do?
They forgot to pack cloths.
I’ve worked with Chinese people in Ireland who expressed bafflement that I did not need or want a brand name when buying clothes. Buying something that didn’t have a known label, regardless of quality, was pointless to them.
I can spot a Irish man in the background.
Also
http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/brown-thomas-hires-in-extra-chinesespeaking-staff-as-sales-boom-29785469.html
Only now do I know that I need a yellow bag. There was some designer bag-craze back about 8 years ago…. I passed the queue on the street. So, are we ‘back’?
Only if you can squint convincingly…
…and I bet you can.
Use your fingers.
Chill out please, everybody.
This is a very difficult time for some people.
At the same time it’s also a very difficult time to find space for those outside of your immediate circle, but you should.
Your family are a bunch of cnuts, so go out and make someone happy.
Look at you…you’re smiling already…
Do it.
Greet a stranger, make a new friend.
-It’s easy, it feels so good. it keeps getting easier, and it never stops feeling better…
Seriously, it does and it will.
Ye rock it an’ ye shock it, but ye just can”t stop it.
So here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody’s having fun.
-You sang that last line, you winker, even though it was delivered two days too late.
Last Christmas, I gave you my heart.
-Would you ever f*** off, this is getting ridiculous.
Ding-a-ling lang someone’s dang-along-ling-long until you get thrown out of the house.
Find another house.
Start again.
I have no legal expertise.
Happy Christmas, you se*y bastard*.
Is Marichu single :-)
I am disappointed to see all the negative comments from so many irish people. You stereotype chinese people but have you ever been to China? Nope. You just get everything from what the media shoves down your throat. So what, all Irish people do is emigrate to other countries and eat potatos? I recommend you to educate yourselves and open your minds.