A recent study revealed that the average handbag and its contents are worth a whopping 900 dollars! That’s 120 billion dollars women are carrying around in handbags nationwide. And can you blame us, really, when there’s such an abundance of variety in the handbag market?
It could well be argued that handbags have overtaken shoes as the luxury collectable accessory of choice for celebrities and ordinary women alike.
But in fact handbags may have as long and controversial a history as the ubiquitous high heel, and according to handbag historians they were used in a similar way – to show the status of the wearer.
In the fourteenth century, the richer and more powerful the person the more jewels and embroidery festooned the handbag. Not much has changed in the handbag world, then.
Over the centuries handbags have gone through many adaptations and fashions, but the word ‘handbag’ was only coined in the 1900’s. That decade also heralded the type of handbag we would recognise today – with bags getting increasingly smaller and the introduction of handbag fasteners, inner compartments and locks.
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