| Bit of a Bag Lady |
| Written by Jane Stabler | |
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Do you love your hand bag? Do you live out of it? Keep your most important possessions in it, or maybe you have a myriad waiting for you patiently to be chosen to be taken out for the day. Jane investigates our fascination with bags.
Not so long ago I had a friend come to my apartment for the first time. (Not the first time I’ve ever had a friend in my apartment, I mean she’d never been over before...sheesh!) Upon taking the tour, which doesn’t take very long at all, she wandered into my bedroom and commented “most girls have a thing about shoes, bags or hats, but not usually all three!” Is this true? Do people usually hone their obsessions to one category of fashion? What an incredible thought. Although my hat collection is nowhere near as extensive as my range of shoes or bags, I do still like a nice hat. But my shoes and my bags are really where it’s at. Buying shoes like a crazy person a lot of people understand. Buying bags religiously, less so, and for this reason Ask Bronny decided to take a look at what it means to be a bit of a bag lady. Sometimes I understand why women aren’t as addicted to handbags as other accessories. As much as I love my handbags, changing the one you tote day to day is actually a colossal pain. The number of times I’ve switched bags to better suit my work ensemble only to get to work and discover I’ve left a crucial item in the previous day’s bag is beyond a joke. But yet I love my handbags, and I know I’m not alone. Handbags are like shoes in that they are one of the few accessories I believe have the ability to change the entire look and feel of an outfit. A fabulously large and loud handbag says something very different to a structured grey clutch even when paired with the exact same ensemble. Bags also, like most fashion choices, also say a lot about the person carrying it. And more flippantly, they’re so fabulously fun! I think every bag you have is probably very different, and brings a very different element to an outfit. A fetish for bags can also be catching I believe, and I have seen women covet another’s bag to the point of dashing out to buy a replica if not an identical copy. Think back to the episode of Sex and the City where Samantha stoops to lying about Lucy Liu in order to get her hands on a Birkin – that’s commitment to being a bag lady! I also read an interesting stat today which goes a long way to proving my point. 22% of women would spend up on a bag if they could only choose one designer piece, whereas only 9% said shoes. I find this quite staggering, but there you go. |
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