How to Carry a Handbag with Style
A handbag is more than a sac of supplies to get you through the day. This accessory is an opportunity heighten your style factor by acting as the finishing touch to any outfit. Carrying a great purse can declare your fashion sense and emphasize the mood of an ensemble: fun, racy, flirty, chic, sophisticated, casual, bohemian... You name it: handbags are a smart way to infuse personality into any look.
Since they're usually compact, you can make a bold design statement with shape, color, fabric, other embellishments.
While the exterior of your handbag is limited only by your imagination, the inside of a woman's handbag is serious business. The contents of your purse function as a style and organizational survival tool kit, in which superfluous items are sacrificed and cast aside in order to make room for those implements you would rather not live without. Most women vow that each and every article in their handbag is indispensable and accounted for. However, in reality the deep recesses of a woman's purse are treacherous places, virtual black holes where forgotten odds and ends converge and mutate with lint, crumbs, hairpins, dog-eared business cards and loose change.
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The Handbag Revolution
In 19th Century Victorian England the handbag came of age. They were made of all manner of materials and decorated to co-ordinate with the dresses of the day. They also began to appear in a variety of shapes and sizes, from the heavily embroidered carpet bag, as immortalised in the film Mary Poppins, to the more delicate woven silk clutch bag. They were decorated lavishly with embroidery, beads, ribbons, or anything really, and instructions for personalising them appeared in the magazines of the day.
In the 1920s and again in the 1950s the handbag became a true fashion statement. The emergence of fashion houses like Chanel and Louis Vuitton gave the humble handbag the chic accessory status it has today. The 1980s brought the rebirth of the pocket on a belt with the new bum bags4. These are made from durable nylon and include zips and velcro, but are essentially what women were wearing under their skirts in the 17th Century. The new improved bum bag gained favour with both men and women, and has proved useful for the likes of nurses to carry their essential little bits and pieces. Bum bags are a secure way to transport your valuables and can still be seen today around busy towns, at popular holiday resorts, and being used by climbers or walkers5 throughout the world.
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Fashion Handbag News!
Come to The Accessory Shoppe. You don't have to look elesewhere. "Purses makes the outfit”. A fashionable purse can enhance the dignity of a women. It makes her more fashionable and hip. The Accessory Shoppe is a one stop shop for trendy products like handmade purses, fun purses and stylishly designed Fashion purses, trendy bangles. Handmade purses or fashion purses can make you feel exceptional and chic.To flaunt your own style choose the fashion purse of your choice. We have handmade purses for every occasion. We design purses with unique patterns, materials, fabrics, and trims to produce high fashion purses, beaded evening purses or every-day purses.
Your requirements and the current trend are kept in mind are kept in mind to make you feel comfortable while holding these handmade purses.handmade purses are available in a wide variety of designs, shapes, colors and patterns. For those of you who do not want to settle for anything less than the best we have authentic fashion purses. Our intricately designed fashion purses can complement any attire you wear – be it Casual or Modern. Be it the pattern, the texture or the appearance of the purse, we bring an element of fun to you via our fun purses.
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Introducing the NEW fashion fix that every girl has been waiting for!
The decision to change handbags is all too often made at the last minute, resulting in items being left behind! Finally Borne Naked has developed a bag organiser that will see an end to the universal problems that arises with changing handbags and leaving your favourite lippie, perfume, tampons, hair elastics, sunglasses and diary - and all your other MUST HAVE items - in your previous bag!
Borne Naked is a unique clear handbag liner that sits inside your handbag and holds your handbag contents in organised compartments, managing to keep all of your favourite things in the one completely see-through pouch. For sassy, organised women all over the world who want to change their handbag to match their outfit, all you have to do is simply remove the handbag liner (which you keep your daily necessities in) and place it into another bag, making changing handbags extremely quick and easy! Now you can share the love between your Chloe, Gucci or Balenciaga bag - changing over handbags has never been made so easy!
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Handbag Trends for 2008
The northern hemisphere summer 2007 colour palette was of cream, grey, beige, soft pastel dusty pinks, silvery white, palest lemon, mauve, lilac, cherry red, brown, olive green and petrol blue. The biggest trend seen everywhere was the metallic twist! For an easy metallic hint add a clutch to your favourite LBD to update the look (check out our clutches for some hot new distressed metallic looks).
Summer 2007 will see us wearing golden bronze, sky blue, grey, coffee, chocolate and cream. All these colours follow through to Autumn/ Winter 08 as important fashion colours. So invest in a key piece for your wardrobe (try the Andrina in Chocolate or Cognac), that can become the staple, everyday piece. Purple is another Spring/Summer 2007 trend colour that will linger through to Autumn Winter 2008 (check out our favourite - The Vivian- in striking purple). The metallic trend meets purple this Spring/ Summer for a strong and confident look. The next 12 months will see a strong colour pallet meet soft metallic hues for a dramatic and confident yet feminine look. Be sure to invest in key colours with a long lifespan but don't be afraid to follow new and different trends. But most of all - have fun! Enjoy Summer 2008 and stay tuned to the news page for Autum/ Winter trends. Hollypoppins.
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Heavy Handbags Could Cause Back Pain
From home to the office to the gym, Americans are carrying more in their bags, purses and briefcases than ever before. But while you're trekking around with your life on your shoulder, your body is taking a beating. Doctors say they're seeing more patients than ever who say they're feeling the effects of carrying a heavier load. "The most common complaint is always lower back pain," said Beth Israel's Dr. Andrew Casden. That symptom is a growing pain to a society that's gone mobile and is constantly on the move, forcing us to stay connected with gear like laptops and electronics which just add more pounds to the problem. It's not just the size of the bag; it's that we carry more.
And it isn't just purses tipping the scales. Men tend to suffer even more not just because of what's in the bag, but because of the way they carry it. "Men carry laptops also; they may be carrying their gym clothes," Casden said. "And the weight of their bags is usually more important, because they may not have a shoulder strap. And they may be carrying it at the end of their arm in a briefcase or some sort of bag like that, and that tends to put even more stress on the back." So why are bags getting bigger? "I think big bags are always going to stay in style, like denim is staying in style," said stylist Sharon Feldstein. "But there's a thing I call … the crossover, kind of like the crossover car. It's not an SUV, but it's not a tiny car. … It holds a lot of stuff and it's a little bit better for your back." Doctors say that until Americans learn to lighten their load, the risk of long-term damage remains.
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Blogging Chocolate Purses, Counterfeit Handbags, & Purse Riots For SEO
Chocolate purses? Did I read that correctly? Back alley bags? Terrorism funding with fake couture? Designer purse riots? They can't be true! But wait, the news is true, it absolutely is! And what is this? A diamond thief snatches a designer handbag from a sexy starlet! And then comes a story about designer cell phones to carry in that fashionable handbag! This is what I love about web marketing and my work as a search engine optimization specialist - the fun and novelty of research. Let's take a step back here and clarify. Why would a web site owner seeking increased search engine visibility care about news related to their products? In a word, CONTENT. I always recommend to new clients that they start a blog discussing their industry and their products and post to it several times a week. Post what? Anything and everything about their product or service belongs in their blog. Content is king and blogs are a great place to routinely add relevant, interesting, search engine friendly content. But my clients wonder where I come up with this stuff - It's in the news. As I scrolled down the page of resulting stories, I saw a link to a press release discussing the new pink Juicy Couture Sidekick phone and PDA from T-Mobile. Then I scrolled to the bottom of that Google News page to look for the link that says, "New! Track new stories about designer handbags & create an email alert" I clicked the link under "create an email alert" and entered my email address for this "Designer Handbags" news search, just like I do with each new client and their product. Every day I receive a list of news stories that turned up in a news search for "Designer Handbags" to discuss on the client blog.
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Trend for celebrity endorsed handbags fades
British women will no longer be persuaded to part with hundreds or thousands of pounds for designer-label handbags just because they've seen them on the arm of Posh Spice, a new report is forecasting. Mintel says that the love affair with expensive handbags such as the Burberry 'Warrior', which can set you back by as much as £13,000, is over, as women become more cynical about celebrity endorsement.
Handbag sales have been a real bright spot in the women's accessories market, with sales rising by 139% between 2002 and 2007, according to Mintel. This has largely been spurred by glossy magazines like Grazia and Heat obsessing over what designer handbag is being carried by trend-setting celebrities such as Kate Moss, Sienna Miller and Victoria Beckham. However, it predicts that the trend will be over this year, with a rise of only 18% forecast in handbag sales for 2008. Handbag retailers need not fear at this point, as the total sales will still reach £553m. However, the higher end of the market may be hit because people will buy more reasonably priced bags from the high street. Katrin Magnussen, senior fashion analyst at Mintel, said: "Women have become more cynical about celebrity endorsed products. "Many will no longer be as quick to spend hundreds, even thousands of pounds on a bag just because the likes of Posh Spice have been snapped with one. "Especially when these days the must-have looks are quickly translated to the high street.
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Handbag sales may slow as jewelry shines
The $7 billion U.S. market for handbags, the fastest-growing product in the fashion industry, may be slowing from record growth. U.S. sales increases that peaked at 28 percent in 2004, the strongest on record, may give way to as little as 15 percent this year and aren't showing signs of returning until at least 2009, according to the New York-based stock research firm Telsey Advisory Group. "The handbag business has softened up a little bit," said Kathryn Deane, president of New York fashion-consulting firm Tobe. "When the consumer looks at accessories, she is not just looking at handbags anymore."
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Handbags full of cash after underachiever storms home
ROSS and Chris Lyons were convinced their three-year-old gelding, who they had bred and nurtured, was not realising his full potential. Two races had reaped little and the brothers agreed that, to get to the bottom of the gelding's problems, they would transfer the horse to veteran trainer Ted Cameron at Swan Hill. Little did they know that they were taking their first step towards one of the biggest plunges recorded in Australian racing. Cameron would gallop Mortolox only twice a week and every other day would float the horse five kilometres out of Swan Hill and get one of the stable apprentices to ride him back in a bid to vary the horse's work. After nearly three months, he contacted the Lyons brothers and told them that the horse would be running in a three-year-old race at Victoria Park in Adelaide. He said Mortolox, the son of Dryburg, who was the much-underrated older brother of The Judge, Red Rebecca and Victoria Peak, was next door to a certainty.
Russell Cameron, Ted Cameron's son, who now is a leading Melbourne trainer in his own right, recalled yesterday the day in 1978 at the old Victoria Park course he will never forget. "When I got out of the car, I was sick and before I'd got the horse even off the float, I was sick again. You have no idea the pressure behind a plunge like this," he said. "You dot your Is and then you dot them again and again. "I knew the extraordinary amount of money that was going to be wagered and that made me ill." When betting opened, bookmakers put Mortolox at 150-1.
