Luggage Choices and Shopping in Midtown

Both these stores on Third Avenue are having sales, but I imagine the starting prices are very different to start with...

The Italian based Flora Louis luggage looked so much like the goods available at a store up the street ( which is an outlet for Samsonite and other well known brands) I just wondered what people are really expecting when they make choices like this.

It seems they still make some items to last for a long time ( like Pendleton shirts) but most of the items we buy these days often seemed to be of lesser quality than they used to be....in fact, in terms of some imports from China etc. are demonstrably of lesser quality than people used to expect.

I remember when quiz shows on TV always had luggage sets as prizes...rarely see that anymore.

Well, travel is not what it once was, especially air travel. I am old enough to remember when flying was fun and exciting ( but then, most people did not fly in those days as compared to now)....the security concerns we have now of course bug the hell out of most people and having criminal gangs rifling luggage and just plain stealing it is so much more commonplace than it used to be.