wow..I got busy

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Over the last couple of weeks, I was getting calls about belts like crazy, I scrambled to find the right sizes that I had in the house..now I know why..see I knew there would be a market for pythons...


Coach, Luxury Stores Jazz Up Bags With Help of Crocs and Gators
Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Elza Cardoso was watching a television show perform the miracle of a fashion makeover when something caught her attention: the woman's new crocodile jacket and boots.

``She looked beautiful,'' said Cardoso, a 40-year-old mother of two whose husband owns an auto-body shop in New Jersey. ``I said to my husband, `I don't want diamonds. I just want crocodile.'''

Cardoso isn't alone. Upscale retailers are offering their most expensive handbags in alligator, python, ostrich or crocodile this holiday season to satisfy the demand for luxury. Coach Inc. sells a $5,450 red alligator pocket satchel, its highest-priced product. Coach says the average handbag price at company-owned stores rose 9 percent last quarter.

``Everybody wants a little bit of glitz and glamour,'' said Nashira Wynn, an analyst at Philadelphia-based Delaware Management Co., whose $110 billion in assets include retail shares such as Coach. She recently received a burgundy crocodile purse as a gift. ``People will be very selective. Exotic skins are a way for the retail market to create something different.''

Fashion house Bottega Veneta, owned by No. 3 luxury-goods maker Gucci Group NV, used 25 crocodile hides to create a hand- woven $75,000 bag in its Cabat line. It's also selling a $12,800 crocodile bag with a new twist: The hide is treated to look and feel like suede. Bottega makes another bag from stingray skin.

Coach, the largest U.S. luxury leather-goods designer, has more items in exotic skins such as python and alligator at its top-performing stores this holiday season, spokeswoman Andrea Resnick said. The lineup includes a $198 python iPod case and $498 python gloves.

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