I was going through the pictures we made on our December trip to New York City. I wrote a bit about the trip in these two posts:
Most of the pictures are family stuff of no particular interest to outsiders. But there is one picture that is worth sharing. Admittedly, it’s out of focus, but still pretty entertaining.
New York City "Designer Jewelry" Street Vendor
In the picture there is a small crowd around one of those street vendors’ tables that are abundant in New York City. The folding table had a big pile of small boxes and the crowd was cheerfully going through the merchandise. Nothing unusual, you might say. What I liked about it was the signage accompanying it (if you click on the picture to enlarge it, you can manage to read it too):
Designer Jewelry. Only $5.00. New Arrivals.
When I saw the signs I got a cick out of it right on spot. First I was pleasently surprized to find “Designer Jewelry” that was so-o-o cheap 
. But even better was the “New Arrivals” part. What I thought immediately was not new arrivals of cheap counterfits, but new arrivals of gullible moronic tourists that flock to the city without ceasing. The “new arrivals” sign was quite beaten up and worn out, but this was only emphasizing the point that there was no shortage of new arrivals of that kind of customers in the long run.
Additional irony to that sight was that the vendor’s table was perked on the street corner right across from the Cartier store on the Fifth Avenue. Sure a good lesson on progressive branding and merchandising for all those snobby overpriced haute couture designers
