I once heard of a trend among the super rich. They buy extremely expensive jewelry but are too cautious to wear them since they don’t want to risk anything happening to them. Rather they order exact duplicates (there aren’t cheep either) of their jewelry and wear the replicas outside while keeping the originals safely in a well guarded safe. The idea behind this is that while they would never normally wear any kind of fake, the fact that they actually own the original allows them to maintain a certain status and they consider the real jewelry as sort of legitimizing the fakes.
Personally I think this is absurd. I have no problem wearing something fake, copied, replicated or any other form of clothing or jewelry as long as I like it and it looks nice. The truth is that I don’t even mind if people know it isn’t real but usually that is not an issue at all since it is so easy to get identical replicas of almost anything. That’s why I love ashleysboutique.com. They sell handbags that are either replicas or inspired by the most prestigious designers such as Louis Vuitton, Coach, Prada, Gucci, etc. The prices are so reasonable and cost only a fraction of the originals that I find myself getting a new handbag almost every month.