Fashion Is In The Handbag

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Without her handbag, every woman feels like without water in a desert. And every one of them carries someone`s mystical story with it. This appreciated fashion accessory’s history goes all the way to ancient 1400s when wallets started to be worn. In time, they became fuller and their dimensions increased. These bags with a string became a status symbol.

Thus, men in the second half of the 16th century got pockets for their wallets, while women carried on wearing them underneath their dresses. In the 18th century, after the French revolution, with the sophistication in women`s clothing, handbag appears in its gracious form.

In the 20th century handbags drew attention of many fashion companies and designers (Luis Vitton, Lauer Burch, Judith Leiber, Coco Chanel), and were a great success. They became representative and a part of every woman`s personal style, thus taking form, material, style and colour with each style of individual dressing. Whether these were handbags for a glamorous night out or a sports occasion.

They are made of linen, leather, plastic even. There are many taboos about the closed women`s handbag, to invade it is like to invade someone`s privacy. A typical woman`s handbag includes basic things plus her own spirit. It is exactly this spirit that makes the handbag special. As basic equipment, today we mean: mobile phone, chewing gum, tissues and lip balm.

Handbags became essential for every occasion, and as women became paranoid about theft of the ones in their hand, they firmly fixated them around their waists and necks. By doing so, they made them famous in each occasion, whether it is doing sports activities of on the beach.

With larger consumer supply, handbag dimensions increased. Suddenly, a woman no longer just keeps money in it. It also serves as an exquisite cosmetic purse (lip balm, powder, mirror, lip stick), with at least one copy of current literature, address book, mobile phone, walkman as a walking jukebox…

Trying to unveil Pandora’s box, we opened some handbags for you – look in the PHOTOGALLERY. But, one thing never changes, the secret that lies behind a closed woman`s handbag, we will never discover.