Asian women love big designer bags. The bigger the bag, the more surface area there is to show off the designer logo, whether it be Coach, Gucci, or Louis Vuitton.

While some of the branding is obnoxious, the real danger of these big designer bags is that they encourage women to haul around the contents of their entire bathroom. The more space a bag offers, the easier it is to stuff it with a ten-pound make up kit and electronic gadgets such as cellphone, iPod, and ceramic hair iron. Plus, when a woman finds herself at a buffet dinner, she can sneak some California rolls and shrimp toasts into that same purse.

Asian American women are quite athletic, as evidenced by their ability to carry their heavy purses, which can weigh up to 15% of a woman’s own body weight. The straps of the bags press down on their shoulders, causing them to walk lop-sided as they peruse their favorite shops on a Sunday afternoon. Adding to the physical challenge are the four-inch heels that threaten to topple their sense of balance. Fortunately, an Asian American princess can often call upon her BF (boyfriend) or GBF (gay best friend) to hold the giant bag and relieve her of some of the stress.

Despite the burdens of carrying an oversized bag, most Asian American women have multiple versions in different colors and shapes. Being a wide reader of fashion magazines, Asian American women will often know more about the purses than the women who sell them. At a shop, an older saleswoman (usually Russian) will try to be friendly and greet a potential customer with “Konnichiwa!” unaware that she is speaking to an Asian American princess and not a Japanese tourist. The foreign greeting will irk the Asian American princess, but only a little, since it is so obvious that the princess, with her advanced degree and plum job, lives a much easier life than the older lady peddling the bags.

However, the princess and the peddler may have one thing in common: They both like to save money. To feed her bag obsession, an Asian American princess will join forces with other princesses and drive two hours to a factory store where designer purses are sold at 30-50% off retail prices. This shows that Asian American princesses, while they may look like vapid fashion slaves with their stiletto heels and giant bags, are actually very frugal and smart. After all, they were raised by cheap immigrant parents who saved every penny while they worked at their 24-hour grocery stores and who made the princesses study really hard even on their summer “vacations.” So while the Asian American princess often falls for stupid status symbols, she is not so stupid that she pays full price.

6 Responses to “Asian women love big designer bags”

1. Elaine says:

   June 10, 2009 at 3:05 am

   LOL!! shot gun in the bag XD
2. plankton says:

   June 19, 2009 at 2:26 am

   Hmm.. I can never understand what’s with females and big designer handbags. We even have a reported increase in “sex deals” here in the eastern parts of sunny Asia. Troubled times we live in.

   http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/girl-performs-oral-sex-on-bus-for-money-to-buy-designer-bag_100202252.html
3. aaprincess says:

   June 19, 2009 at 9:57 am

   Plankton,

   Thanks for that link. Gross! Well, if she can get the bag at discount, I guess she will only have to give 4 bjs and not 8. I like what you said on your own blog about this, that there’s no real victim here. Just vanity (and stupidity).

   AA Princess
4. Tom says:

   August 1, 2009 at 3:28 pm

   I like your site, you’re funny.

   But, about this quote: “So while the Asian American princess often falls for stupid status symbols, she is not so stupid that she pays full price.”
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   It made me think about how obsessed some Asians and Asian Americans can be over status symbols, prestige, and branding. This applies to designer bags, as you said, but I think also clothing, cars, what college you went to, and… even choice of men. Unfortunately, I’ve come across several Asians who openly say, or hint, that they consider dating a White to be way more cool/prestigious than with another Asian, from both genders.
5. aaprincess says:

   August 11, 2009 at 7:15 pm

   Hi Tom,

   Hmm, what you say about the status symbol applying to clothing, cars and colleges is very true. I only date men who wear Armani and graduated from either Harvard or Yale. U Penn is a maybe, but only if he’s in the business school. (I am kidding by the way, haha.)

   I don’t know about the rest of your comment; sounds like those people need to get some confidence. It is true that about half the Asian women in America end up with white men, but they would probably dump those boyfriends/husbands for one night with John Cho!

   AA Princess
6. Owen Murphy says:

   June 28, 2010 at 7:29 pm

   Asian women are cute and good mannered. they are very caring too.`-*