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I'm Not a Smug Twat bag

After all the hoo-ha about the "I'm Not a Plastic Bag" came the inevitable backlash, and now the humourous send-up. Marissa Vandersee, a California-born market trader is selling her "I'm Not a Smug Twat" bags for £15 "I came up with the idea when I saw reports of people queuing at Sainsbury's. I don't understand why anyone would want to queue for hours just to get their hands on a bag. It seems crazy."

Vandersee makes the bags herself and sells them at London's Brick Lane and Broadway markets: "They're supposed to be ethical and yet it turns out they're exploiting people. My bag might be a bit more expensive but the only cheap labour I'm exploiting is me. She added: "I also support local sourcing and production. My fabrics are sourced in Northern Ireland, England and Italy, while they are produced in London and Wales."

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Posted by Catwalk Queen on May 2, 2007 11:12 AM in CQ Discovers| Fashion News
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Ha ha ha! Go Marissa. People are buying the other ones on eBay for fifty quid when the sellers bought em for a fiver...

Posted by: Kt | May 2, 2007 11:34 AM

Hahaha thats so funny... I've had to buy one!

Posted by: Helen | May 2, 2007 11:45 AM

I know, I have an Anya Hindmarch bag but I didn't queue up, I got it from the We Are What We Do website and now everyone looks at me like I'm crazy - like I would queue up for hours and hours?!

Posted by: Faye | May 2, 2007 11:48 AM

Yeah, I got mine ages ago from We Are What We Do too. And I used it recently and so many people asked me how long I queued for it. Probably disconcertingly for WAWWD - no-one that asked had heard of the charity that started the whole thing!

Posted by: Zed | May 2, 2007 1:48 PM

Well the bag wasn't being promoted as ethical it was highlighting the use of plastic bags.

Since when was the use of the word tw*t socially accepted ?

Posted by: hikki | May 2, 2007 3:49 PM

Ha! Love it. The smug self-righteousness "Look at MEEE I'm being GREEEEN!!!" of the slogan on the original ticked me off from the start.

That said, I probably wouldn't carry one around because although I swear a lot, I try not to subject the general public to it. Old ladies and parents with little kids probably don't like the word "twat" quite as much as I do...

Posted by: GJ Hallam | May 2, 2007 4:29 PM

I've just ordered one and now rather ironically I do feel quite smug.

Posted by: Em | May 2, 2007 4:46 PM

Can I get one in the US? Americans, including this one who grew up on British tv, don't know what a twat is.

Posted by: Jael | May 2, 2007 10:41 PM

That is amazing.

Posted by: Val | May 3, 2007 4:33 AM

How can I get This One. Im in Indonesia??
pliz contact me everybody...+628179112982....thx...

Posted by: netta | August 25, 2007 4:03 AM

How can i get this one?????
Im in Indonesia...
Can sumOne heLps Me???
What do I supposed to do in We Are What We Do website???thank

Posted by: netta | August 25, 2007 5:06 AM

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