My wife and I were in a purse shop recently (purses are dumb btw) when she pointed out purse...flair? Like little clip on dice or cards or dinosaurs.
They were like 150 fucking dollars a flair. Like half the cost of some of the purses.
What is that shit?
It's fun wee trinkets to decorate the bag, like a charm bracelet but for your bag. Some of my pals are into crochet and make little animals or monsters or anthropomorphised fruit and veg and things to hang on theirs. Mine has an "orgone blaster" that some crystal hippie boomer friends gave me - I don't think it actually has any special powers, but it's a shiny plastic bead on a thong with a copper spiral set inside, I like the look and it was a present so I want to wear it in case I bump into them.
I like them but there's a limit to it, and it has to either be something personal or complement the bag and outfit. The insufferable twee upper-class millennials here are obsessed with Jellycat, which has gone from selling plush toys to selling miniature plush toys on clips for use as bag charms (or keyrings or phone charms if you really dgaf about ergonomics and want a ton of hairy shit dangling off your phone). I have a Jellycat Truffles Highland cow doll (it folds out into a cushion, great for long journeys) so I don't have much room to talk, but I don't bring it with me everywhere and it's just one. I see people with a huge cluster of the things bouncing off their bag as they go, getting dirty and scuzzy over time.
Zoomers sometimes have furry tails attached to their bags, like the kind that furries wear on their arse, but on a bag instead, or anime characters.
Douyin chinks have the least offensive ones in my experience, they usually have some sort of charm that kind of matches the style of the bag (same colour scheme or with some lace or beads or something that reflects elements in the bag or the rest of their outfit), but they also love those hideous Labubu things, so it really varies.
I remember seeing a soft toy hamburger with a face that looked like a Jellycat, but it was a knock-off: Jellycat's range of soft toy food is achingly pretentious and middle-class. Things like a mille-feuille, a cluster of olives, a wheel of goat's cheese. I imagine if they met the burger doll and all hung off the same bag, it'd be a real culture shock.
'. I guess I think they would have looked much more adorable in a real outfit instead of a deconstructed idea of an outfit
