So pretty

Swoony, swoon, swoon. Why oh why is this bag only available online? I don't really feel comfortable purchasing such a lovely item online. I would rather have the experience to see an item in a shop, chat with a sales person about the item and proudly walk out of the store with it. I've never bought any apparel online. It's just too risky in my opinion. I don't trust guessing sizing. I know that bags are a little bit of different story, but I'd still rather not. I remember swearing a long time ago that I would never make any kind of purchase online and at the time, it was because I was scared that my credit card number would get lost in cyber-space and someone would end up spending a gazillion dollars on it, but that idea went down the drain pretty quickly when I found out that almost no one books flights and hotels on the telephone anymore. I did purchase a bag online once and that didn't quite work out. I had ordered one of Anya Hindmarch's I'm Not a Plastic Bag bags, but it got lost in the mail. (Boo. I would have loved to have that bag.) In the end, I don't think that it was the company's fault, but that experience may have coloured my judgement of purchasing valuable (and I don't mean price-wise) items online. I feel like I might be contradicting myself a little bit. Anyway, the point is that the bag is beautiful and as much as I would love the bag and think that it would go perfectly with my monochromatic wardrobe, I probably won't end up getting it, ONLY because I'd have to purchase it online. Perfect style, perfect size, perfect colour...at least in my mind. Too bad I couldn't see it in person to confirm.