Even with the global economy not out of the duldrums of recession, it’s not an excuse to not look at your best when ever you step outside your house in the morning. Admiring or even envious glances don’t stop because of the economy, but since money is tight for most of us right now, justifying spending $800 on a Louis Vuitton designer handbag can be a bit difficult – especially when we don’t know whether the job we have now is the job we have next week.

So what’s a girl to do? We want to look sophisticated but telling the boyfriend we just spent half the months salary on a handbag might not do well for your relationship.

Increasingly the women of the world are turning to replica handbags (literally handbags that look like the real thing but without the price tag) so that they can continue to get the same envious looks but without the price tags that go with it! Nowadays you can find exact Louis Vuitton replica handbags that look just like the originals – infact unless the person asks for the receipt for proof there is no way to tell the difference.

However, you need to be careful where you source the replica handbags from as our study concluded when we decided to do a replica Gucci review of all the suppliers on the Internet. Some made bags with very poor quality and some had different patterns entirely which would be a waste of money since it could prove to be very embarrassing if someone asked why the pattern was different to a ‘real’ Gucci bag!