This second edition of Ridiculous Thai Trends features a Ridiculous Thai Trend that has come and thankfully gone. Like other Ridiculous Thai Trends, it ripped through the country via schoolgirls and college girls and raged on and on like an epidemic case of MRSA. Alas, this accessory has now been replaced by the better, more expensive Hermes, Louis Vuitton and the likes. You'll see the few awaiting extinction while they are taken out once in a while by the style laggers hanging on to the tail of the curve.
These delightful creations are called the Kipling bags. You'll recognize a Kipling bag by its main distinction: a monkey, that will hang off of bag by its head. I will not bother to try to dive into the history of why, oh why, someone decided that having a monkey hanging off of a handbag would make for a valuable fashion statement. I don't think there is a single situation where I'd sport a bag with a monkey on it. If I worked in a zoo in Australia, then maybe. Or if my pet monkey needed a bag for her bananas and stuff. Other than that I simply can't make sense of it.
Personally if I were to wear a fake monkey on me I'd wear it as the backpack. So it would look like the monkey was hanging on to me, get it? Or I'd wear two around my ankles as legwarmers. But hanging off of my bag? Seriously. Talk about lame.
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