In West LA/Beverly Hills/Hollywood, here are my very generalized observations:
-Lots of fake Coach and Gucci bags, because they're everywhere downtown and in Santee Alley, but thankfully my friends don't carry them. I miss the days when Coach actually used nice leather. Not that I was alive for that, but my mom was
-LV brown monogram bags : Westside housewives in sweatpants and sweatshirts
-LV colored monogram bags : Flats of BH housewives in tight yoga pants and tiny tank tops, AND the worst plastic Hollywood bimbos
-Bal City bags : spoiled private school girls who eat a piece of lettuce for lunch and swill Grey Goose for dinner
-Chanel : 2.55 and wallets for the Asian girls and a few other people, everything else for the grandmas.
-YSL Muse : Only seen a few of these (I love them), all on high-powered businesswomen.
-Leather Birkin : Women with rich husbands/boyfriends/married lovers.
-Ostrich Birkin : Rich women who (apart from the bag) don't show off their wealth. I see zillions of these, it's ridiculous. I don't even believe in the "waiting list" anymore!
- Trader Joe's canvas bag - women with "Obama mama" bumper stickers on their Priuses (Priei?)
I mean, sometimes I carry a TJ's canvas bag or a vintage plain leather Coach clutch, so who knows what that means about me . . .