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 Women are known
to be keen on stylish and fancy handbags along with beautiful shoes. They cannot
resist to stylish pair of shoes and a handbag if they see the perfect match.
And no age, no social status, habits or taste can do when these accessories are
considered for the entire image. A handbag is the item, which is best to have
in greater number. The more shoes and handbags a woman has for every particular
occasion, the better is for her look.
The fashion
critics suppose women’s handbags appeared as the alternative to lots of pockets
in men’s clothes. There was no need to take on them personal belongings in the epoch
of the Middle Ages but several coins, no matter copper, gold or silver they
were. They used to have special small sacks which were attached to the band of
the men’s clothing and women used to have on lace. Such sacks were in great
demand till the epoch of Renaissance. Later Louis XIV, the King, who was known
for his liking to fashionable clothing, had tailors make man's sleeveless
jackets with pockets and all the court dandies replicated this detail of the
wardrobe. Ladies went on carrying sacks experimenting making them bigger,
decorated with embroidery and glass beads, and then consequently, the first women’s
handbag was invented in the second half of the 17th century.
Marquise de
Pompadour was the first woman who came with the idea to carry handbags to have
all personal belongings as kerchiefs, cosmetics and other women’s things. Since
then the handbag was called «pomp», certainly, and such handbags were made from
velvet with dense laced flounce.
Till the
time of 20th century women’s handbags were made exclusively from yard
goods. Women acquired the challenge to hold rigid handbags made from natural
skin and leatherette just after they were awarded the right to wear trousers
and have their hair short.
There are
special museums in every corner of the world that show evidence of ancient
handbags of various styles. So, the museum
of Victoria, the Queen of
England, can boast with the widest collection of ancient handbags. The museum
of handbags and purses is opened in Amsterdam
with over three and a half thousand things to exhibit.
Today the
handbag is treated as the detail of the women image and it is quite the same as
the model of the car for men. 4th of October is the National Day of
Handbags in Great Britain,
by the way. And it is widely celebrated.
Some
handbags launched by the reputed designers turned into the symbols of lavish
style showing off the status and wealth.
Birkin handbag
is on the top of the rating of luxury handbags named after the actress and
singer Jane Birkin. It will take you around thirty thousand
US dollars for this handbag made from natural calf, ostrich or alligator skin
and the Fashion House Hermes is specialized to launch such Birkin handbags.
The brand
Louis Vuitton, the largest Fashion House in France,
launches handbags that are believed to be iconic in Europe.
They differ is style and color, though the quality is blameless and classic
style is preferred to others, though there may be some exclusions from time to
time.
So, in 2009
the designers for Louis Vuitton offered something too fascinating and awkward
at first sight- the handbag as patchwork made from fifteen 3D samples. That one
was offered for $42 thousand USD.
The handbag
made from the skin of the white pony by Fendi designers is available for twenty
eight thousand Euros though it shows no signs of luxury or elegance that goes
beyond of trivial standards.
Chanel
House designers also excelled making the limited edition refined Diamond
Forever Classic Tote in 2008 from the matte alligator skin incrusted with lots
of diamonds. In spite of the fortune to pay for the handbag, that is two
hundred and sixty thousand USD, the edition went out immediately, and every order
was considered individually with partially since they wished their handbags
owned by the elite only.
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