Move past the "It bag"—now it's time to start collecting bags on the basis of aesthetics alone. Multicolored python, gold-tone hardware and a metal and acrylic chain-link strap certainly put this Marc Jacobs bag in the ostentatious category, which is why it would be a refund check well spent, because next year you can always sell it on eBay.
$3,400 at net-a-porter.com
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For spring, wearing fringe around your neck is preferable to wearing it on your sleeve or even on pair of boots.
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From the vault of secrets of the stylish, one statement necklace, like this metal and enamel piece by Missoni, is all it takes to carry a wardrobe of basics.
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These unusually shaped sunglasses in an eccentric color are an indulgence you can afford even if your refund is paltry.
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The fact that these essential summer shoes are called "W4" is all that really needs to be said on the subject of why your tax refund should be put toward buying them.
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Take your refund and re-invest it in something made out of precious metals that doubles as art and also has a market value. Kirk and Behrend's pipe-bomb fragrance edition (why be a revolutionary, when you can just smell like one?) comes in three editions. All prices fluctuate depending on current prices of precious metals. Pictured is the sterling silver version, edition of 20, and currently $3,750 each; 14K gold edition of five is $27,350 each and platinum edition of three is $43,750 each..
On view and available for purchase April 15-19 at Participant, Inc.
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Everyone needs a tough-looking leather jacket in their closet to throw over wimpy spring dresses. This wins points for your money because it happens to look like a copper penny.
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For under $1,000, a zippy bag of black leather and chains that could double as a book bag for the cool kids.
$725 at Oak NYC, call 212-677-1293 to buy.
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This is the first collaboration between the revered French house Lanvin and Swedish denim maker Acne, which brings the humble fabric into the chic stratosphere, and that stratosphere is within your subsidized wallet's reach.
$970 at Barneys New York, ACNE Studio, NY (212-625-2828) and acnestudios.com.
ACNE/Lanvin
This is the type of shoes that you're as comfortable displaying on a shelf as you are wearing them with everything you own. Yet their deceptively impractical appearance would never allow you to justify their expense, thus, that makes them refund-worthy.
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Crumley's bangles are sculpted the way you might imagine a hollowed-out cross-section of a delicate tree to look—it's back-to-the-land dressing for modernists. Go ahead and buy one for each arm.
$178 at crumleynewyork.com.
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From Medusa to Marchesa Luisa Casati, there is something decadent about being draped in snakes. A touch of serpent charm in bangle form evokes both myth and luxury, about the furthest thing from the reality of the IRS.
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Shiny, shiny, shiny wedge of leather. Wearing these glossy spring shoes would be akin to popping multicolored glass marbles of candy in your mouth and smiling.
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