Interesting article. Albeit from the Daily Snail. However I picked all but one of the Lidl bags from the first picture. Not easily fooled on the bag front.
And quite how the journo has the nerve to say compare the one to Mulberry I do not know. I won't say which and spoil it if you want to guess which are which.
I bought a heavy canvas bag several years ago for 24 when she was in the Vl form from Aldi. It's still going strong and we all fight over it when going on holiday, even Himself who wouldn't be seen dead with a bag in the UK.
It's difficult to tell with some of them, probably easier if you handle them and look at the interiors.
It does make you wonder why the designer bags are so expensive. I can honestly say I have never seen anyone with a handbag that has caught my attention to make me think it was designer. Does that make me a heathen lol?