‘Bushwick Birkin’ — or Big Brown Bag? What an NYC woman’s tote says about her

Source: New York Post

In New York City, the shopping bag you carry around says almost as much about you as your shoes — sometimes more. From thrift stores and grocery aisles to luxury department stores to an Upper West Side family institution, reusable shopping bags have quietly become the city’s most democratic status symbols — swung over shoulders like Birkin-adjacent badges of honor. In a city where everyone tries to look effortlessly cool (and eco-conscious while they’re at it), Gothamites are hitting up stores not just for what’s on the shelves, but for the bag they’ll carry out.