A Birds Nest

Simple things: what is it about the simple?

Ah, hermes bags …simple, uncomplicated, stylish. Three words which flood my brain pretty much any time I walk down a high-street. Honestly, I don’t know how my boyfriend copes with me…

But anyway, thinking once again about how I love hand bags made me wonder: what is it about special and uncomplicated things that is so attractive? It’s odd, don’t you think? The more complex something is, the better it is supposed to be, for example. There are a few other anomalies, such as follows…

1) If a girl has a plain face then it’s not really a good thing. Yet I adore plain hand bags. Why is this?

2) Simple people are considered dumb, while every single one of Apple’s products are plain and minimal.

3) Speaking of things minimal, the world is full of minimal design that is much loved. Yet when I used to wear my Dunlop trainers at school, which are exceedingly simple, everyone laughed at me!

This means that you get all the familiarity of a product but with the knowledge that each and every one is entirely unique…

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