I am an —always have been! My friends often joke that I am like a clam: usually sealed shut, though I do open up from time to time. What can I say? I don’t like people in my business, and I’ve been that way for as long as I can remember. Now, two summer fashion trends are threatening my introverted bliss: mesh shoes and, even worse, mesh accessories like bags.
It’s a hermit’s worst nightmare: Designers, all of a sudden, have decided that it is chic to expose virtually everything about yourself—including your toes and the interior mess of your handbag. Surprisingly, are a look I can get behind. This season’s trendy mesh Alaïa flats—worn by stars like Katie Holmes, , and Dakota Johnson—are a chic alternative to a summer sandal that also reveals your bare feet.
But it’s the mesh-handbag trend that has me distraught. What’s in my bag is for me to know and for you not to find out. Think about it: Why do you, a perfect stranger, need to know what I carry around in my mundane day-to-day life? Must you really be privy to my secret stash of candy, my ten thousand CVS receipts, and my secret Carrying around a mesh bag is basically an invitation into your dishevelled mind—and as someone who enjoys keeping my secrets, I would rather step out with no belongings at all than put them on full display.
It’s not to say that I don’t think the mesh bag can be chic. Sure, if you’re only carting around a lip gloss, a sleek card holder, and your keys, then of course .
