In a very pointed reminder that, yes, there are still people out there with plenty of cash to spend

on handbags, luxury giant Hermes has decided to open a temporary outpost on Easthampton to

cater to the elite that can still afford the kind of house that gives them the ability to use

“summer” as a verb.

Well, if this CraigsList ad for temporary sales associates is to be believed, anyway. Women’s

Wear Daily seems to confirm it, although I’m cheap and don’t have a subscription, so I can’t see

the entire article.

What does this tell us? Well, it tells us that the Hamptons are still a little annoying, in a Real

Housewives of New York, fabulously awful way. It also tells us that there’s hope for our economy

yet – keep spending, obscenely rich people! And keep going on vacation! Hermes wants to give

you a way to do both, simultaneously, and if that isn’t the American way, then I don’t know what

is.