Cheap Things with a very Expensive Feel
Look, we may talk about deliriously expensive shoes and priceless bags but we’re actually very uncomplicated girls who are easily satisfied. A few poles, a bit of fabric, a pool of water – no more is needed. It feels and looks very expensive but it isn’t, and that’s exactly how it should be.
a little food on a large plate
The more expensive the restaurant, the less you eat. A very large white plate with three peas and another small something that looks impressive – must have been expensive. If I were to cook up something(ok. I can’t actually cook), using supermarket ingredients and then presented it on a huge pretentious white plate, I could convince you it’s state of the art cuisine. So you see. The less food you give us the more impressed we are, easy.
Crushed ice
Crushed ice says, “Sassy cocktail bar with a steamy hunk waiter that used his muscled arms to crush the ice to perfection”, ice cubes say, “here’s some ice to keep your drink chilled”, boring. So we want crushed ice. Thank you very much.
a few wooden poles with white curtains
Yes this is funny, because anything close to a luxurious resort has a construc (this is Amayzine’s word for construction) on its beach or near its pool, a few wooden poles with floating white curtains between them. With a little goodwill you can put one up for a few bucks though we always seem to associate them with luxury and wealth.
disposable glasses
Do you remember May’s theory on the more expensive the location the cheaper the glasses? Also explainable using the now well-known formula: $>=Y< (Get it? Do you?) Last September May and I were on the rooftop of the members only Soho House in New York where they serve very expensive wine in disposable glasses. We’ve seen it before, the more exclusive the location the crappier the wine glasses. See how easy we are, give us a plastic cup and we feel like royalty.
rolled towels
Even a cardboard towel from Target can look very spa and luxurious when rolled up. Really. You should try this at home.
Drinking in the pool
Isn’t it weird that as soon as you find yourself sipping a glass(or plastic glass) of wine in a pool you immediately think you’re in a four seasons spa resort. Drinking an ice cold glass of white wine in a clear blue pool with the sun high in the sky just makes you feel all royal and rich. This is a real winner when the glass is served to you by a tanned hunk of a waiter in a tight white suit during his shift at the pool.
