> I bet some large majority can identify an Hermes bag as an expensive bag, logo or no.
Not to the extent you'd think, I bet. The designs of the Hermes bags are designs that have been widely copied by far less expensive manufacturers.
I went on the Hermes site and looked at some bags (they don't show prices on their website), then looked up the prices of the bags. They were all an order of magnitude more than I would expect for the item I was looking at.
So, sure, most people could look at a bag and think "That bag cost hundreds of dollars". But I don't think that most people could look at the bag as think "that bag costs thousands of dollars". Spending several thousand dollars on a handbag is so far outside the realm of normal for people that it wouldn't occur to them that it would be that expensive.
Not to the extent you'd think, I bet. The designs of the Hermes bags are designs that have been widely copied by far less expensive manufacturers.
I went on the Hermes site and looked at some bags (they don't show prices on their website), then looked up the prices of the bags. They were all an order of magnitude more than I would expect for the item I was looking at.
So, sure, most people could look at a bag and think "That bag cost hundreds of dollars". But I don't think that most people could look at the bag as think "that bag costs thousands of dollars". Spending several thousand dollars on a handbag is so far outside the realm of normal for people that it wouldn't occur to them that it would be that expensive.