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I’ve heard dozens of women complain about the burden of carry pocketbooks. As a man, I have to admit that I often wish it were more socially acceptable for men to carry a similar type of bag. There are certainly times when touting a person around town can be a hassle, but more often than not, you will find yourself turning to your purse several times during the day to locate essential items.
Since carrying a person isn’t a viable option for me, everything that I want to bring has to fit into my pockets. On an average day this will include: keys, phone, wallet, chapstick, gum and a variety of other miscellaneous items. This may not seem like a problem, but constantly having your pockets bulging can be quite uncomfortable. Although I will probably never make the leap, I have often considered checking my ego at the door and picking up a “man bag.”
Why Are Cheap Designer Handbags More Affordable Than Ever?
Did you know that even the handbag market is hurting in our recessive economy? Our recession is not limited to a banking crisis. People are not buying things that they want. They are limiting themselves primarily to what they need. This is why companies are lowering the price on their purses and assessors across the board. There is also another major reason why you can now find cheap designer handbags. There are many different types available on the market. Different women have different needs. Some of them prefer larger varieties which can store a great quantity of personal items. Others like smaller bags because they are able to look classy and yet carry with them the essentials in a very limited supply.
One of the largest trends is having the ability to carry a book with you. Many women are on the go and may be flying to a different destination and require reading material. Hardbound books are very popular right now and would be impossible to put in a smaller carry-on. There are also in between sizes which portray a more professional appearance depending upon the outfit that you choose. This would allow you to present yourself in a more dignified way and at the same time bring your reading material in a paperback or even a Kindle.
DAYTON – Saving time and money this holiday season does not mean clipping coupons and dragging your inflatable Santa up to the highest peak on the roof. Social networking sites Twitter and Facebook have once again jumped on the popular bandwagon to offer new ways to celebrate the holidays and be gentle to your pocketbooks.
Setting a record on Christmas Eve 2008, 2.18 percent of all U.S. Internet traffic was to Facebook, according to Experian Hitwise Senior Online Analyst Heather Hopkins.
Facebook is saving time and trees. Users can create their own virtual Christmas tree without the stress that the actual thing requires. No, it won’t emit the same pine fragrance or be decorated with your favorite ornaments, but it is environmentally friendly and Mittens the cat won’t be able to scale it to the top. Also eco-friendly are the Web site’s paperless Christmas cards.
If it seems that all you are doing is crunching time this year, then enjoy the delightful tastes of the culinary fete of the Christmas Dinner application on Facebook. Finally, Christmas dinner is something everyone can enjoy without reaping the effects of turkey tryptophan and those unwanted calories.
Amid all of these Facebook activities is the Christmas Cheer application. With more than 2 million active users sending well wishes to friends and family, this application just might prove once again that it’s the thought that counts.
Save yourself the embarrassment and consider the Bad Christmas Gifts application before giving away your nonvirtual presents this year.
Or, visit the Facebook Gift Shop and send presents to friends and family while raising money for charity at the same time. There are 27 gift options that raise money for the World Wildlife Fund, the American Red Cross, UNICEF, Prevent Child Abuse America, The Humane Society and more.
Many major retailers have Twitter accounts where employees post news about the company. Included in these accounts are the most current Christmas deals and shopping news.
Information is everything for shoppers who are competing in this buying frenzy, and at last retailers are communicating real deals in real time to their most loyal customers.
But shopping isn’t the only way to participate in the holiday spirit. Twitter members and Facebook users alike can post their wish lists. Don’t worry if your favorite holiday patron, Grandma, doesn’t have an account and won’t be able to view your wish list. That’s why printers were invented.
In the news Huge Handbags Can Be a Weight on Your Shoulders
My husband picked up my purse the other day.
“I can do curls with this,” he exclaimed.
He was right. Looking for something in my humongous handbag is like going on an excavation.
I was carrying a cell phone, a camera, a charger, two makeup bags, a comb, a magazine, a bottle of perfume, some jewelry, sunglasses in a case, a few letters to mail and a wallet full of change; not to mention the hardware on the purse itself, which probably adds another pound.
When I put my bag on the bathroom scale, it weighed in at a whopping 16.5 pounds.
This isn’t a new phenomenon. I’ve been carrying my life on my shoulders ever since my mother gave me my first megabag when I was a teenager. My purses have been getting larger ever since.
Apparently I’m not alone.
Jumbo-size purses are all the rage, but they can also be a big pain in the neck, shoulder, back, and can cause headaches, warns Dr. Shazia Khan, co-medical director at Loyola Primary Care Center, Loyola University Health System.
“I see lots of women for neck pains and headaches, and what I usually do is pick up their purse. Most of them say, ‘That’s what I thought,’” Khan said. “Large bags are fashionable, but if women are going to carry them, they need to make sure they don’t pay a price when it comes to their health.”
A woman shouldn’t lug around a pocketbooks 
that weighs more than 10 percent of her body weight — 15 pounds max, Khan said.
She suggests women use smaller purses made of light material. But if you’re like me, and you can’t bear to part with your hefty handbag, at the very least rotate it to the other shoulder from time to time. You might want to start incorporating neck, back and shoulder strength-training exercises into your workout routine.
Also look for a bag with broad straps that provide good shoulder support.
Let’s not even talk about the last resort: the fanny pack. Most women — including myself — would rather suffer than be seen with a fanny pack.
Khan also found that a big bag carries more than accoutrements — it can be a petri dish harboring harmful bacteria, including deadly E. coli and staphylococcus aureus, which can cause a skin infection and toxic shock syndrome.
“Women place their bags anywhere,” Khan said. “In the bathroom, on the floor, any surface. And you can spread infection. It’s like any large object that can pick up germs.”
She recommends women occasionally wipe down their purses — inside and out — with an anti-bacterial solution. And don’t put your bag on the floor at a restaurant or hang it on a hook in a public restroom. Purses also should be banned from kitchen counters and food preparation areas.
I don’t think I can part with my hefty handbags. But I do plan to lighten the load. And I’ll keep it clean from now on.
If we were to trace the origin of handbags, women would likely be surprised to know that they were first utilized by a group of men some 2000 years ago. Although wholesale handbags were not in the scene at this time, men in biblical times did indeed carry the equivalent of what we consider to be the handbags of today.
This practice came to women’s knowledge and from then on, its handbags became completely indispensable. Handbags, purses, or any other kinds of totes will forever be a part of women’s wardrobes. Although some men continue to don handbags occasionally, women have dominated the scene in the handbag industry. No outfit can stand alone without a matching handbag. By far, handbags have encapsulated women’s fashion ever since the first modern versions appeared in France.
Nowadays, handbags were everywhere. Thousands of handbags of all imaginable styles and designer handbags are on the market. Apparently, each kind has found its use in the wardrobe of every woman. And yet, with the overwhelming number of handbags that has emerged year after year and grabbed up by female consumers, there are still many, many more soon to invade women’s fashionable wardrobes. Moreover, handbags designers are proliferating. From a non-designer label to outrageously priced designer handbags, from a simple and plain masterpiece to shiny and elegantly embroidered handbags, the fashion industry will never cease to crank out new handbags for the market.
With the amount of money that women spend every year on either a purse or a handbag special care needs to be given to them to maintain and increase their life and shape.
Did you know that there are ways of taking care of your purses or handbags with simple things you have around the house. Here I will give you inexpensive ways to take care of your handbags by cleaning and storing properly to expand the life of your leather and cloth purse? With these helpful hints you can keep them looking new and fresh for years. We all know about the great products on the market to help us preserve and clean our leather purse, but in a pinch these little hints are great.
When you change your purse stuff it with tissue paper to help keep its shape. If you are putting away your winter handbags for the spring simply stuff them with your winter gloves and folded scarves. This way you won’t need to search or find a place to store these garments as everything will be together for next winter. Also store them in a breathable bag. (Never use plastic bags to store your leather purses or handbags as leather needs to breath and mold and mildew love to form and grow on things where the air can’t reach thus ruining your handbags). When you need to shine your leather purse some people use the inside of a banana peel; “It really works”. Start by lightly rubbing your purse with the inside of a banana peel to clean then just gently buff with a soft cloth. For a stain on your black or brown purse get the right color of marker to match the color of your article then rub in a few drops of olive oil. This method is great on leather. Has your leather become hard and brittle? Try using olive oil to soften it by rubbing some into the leather with a soft dry clean cloth then tissue off the excess surplus.
Now ladies even our cloth purses need maintenance. We need to wipe them down inside and out on a regular basis as bacteria and mold will find their way onto, and into them. This mold will then get on everything you have inside your handbag. These fabric purses should be stored away in a plastic bag (plastic bags are to be used only for fabric handbags to prevent moths from eating the material.) They too need to be stuffed with tissue paper to help keep their shape.
Remember to never leave any handbag on the floor after all we don’t always go somewhere where the floor is clean including the floor of our car. Let’s stop and think about it for a minute. How clean do we believe the bathroom floor at the restaurant or the bathroom floor in the department store really is? Hmm!!! Without thinking about it we invariably set down our handbag on these floors then proceed to set it on our kitchen table when we get home. By using these simple and good ideas you will keep your purses, handbags, satchels or evening bags in perfect condition for years to come.
For my girlfriend’s birthday last month, she asked me to get her a new pocketbook. Not only was I at a loss as to which designer to buy, I didn’t even know where to look. One of my friends suggested that I go to the mall to look around.
At the mall I found thousands of options, many of which were outrageously priced, in my opinion. I decided to go online and try my luck there. I was quickly able to find discount pocketbooks from the same designers they were selling in the mall for a third of the price.
Today the retail market is flooded with clothes and an increasing number of accessories in different styles and fashion. Although you may like one handbag, chances are if you are anything like me, you would have no clue of the type that the particular handbag belongs to. So the next time if your daughter compliments you, “Mom that’s a great tote!”, don’t look around – rather look at your purse and acknowledge her compliments. Although handbags could be of different sizes, shapes and styles, there are some most popular categories in handbags.
• Holding your handbag by handles gives you a handheld handbag. The straps are small so that you can only carry them by your hands. These are not very big and you cannot dump anything and everything in it. These are pretty much in style now-a-days and are easy to carry while you are out shopping or in a casual get-together.
• Shoulder bags as the name suggests have shoulder straps and are meant to be worn over the shoulder. These have large spaces and you can carry your make-up kit, books and wallet easily in a shoulder bag. These days shoulder bags come with nice metallic and leather straps that enhance the look and feel of these bags.
• The back pack used for back packing is a popular bag across all ages and across all centuries. The reason is simple – it always serves the purpose. Although most popular among the students, back packs are largely used by all whenever they are out their negotiating the trails or going for a picnic. The more compartmentalized a back pack is more efficient it is. Back packs these days come in lovely colors with great patterns to choose from. Back packs from Swiss are quite famous and are priced around 100 USD.
• A clutch is a handheld handbag without the straps. So you can just carry it in your palm or hold it in your hand but you cannot hang it. Clutch bags are pretty common in evening parties and dinners. Small and petite clutch bags generally have rich craftsmanship with beads and sequins. It will have enough space for your bare necessities. Most ladies have two to three clutch bags matching their evening wears.
• Finally comes the all-purpose, casual, tote bag. Extremely practical, you can wear those across your shoulder and on your bag. These have compartments to demarcate your belongings! You will also have enough space to dump your books or your dancing shoes! These come in vibrant colors and patterns to uplift your mood.
Choosing a handbag that best suits your style and your clothes is the ideal way to go when it comes to shopping for handbags. First pick up the type that best suits your present needs and then go for the color, shape and pattern. It’s not that difficult, you see! And if you do have the mullah, then why shy away? Buy one from each type and you are covered for all occasions and all seasons!
If you’re looking for something a little different, there are literally thousands of beautifully crafted unique handbags and purses available for purchase online. If you’re tired of the mass-produced offerings you tend to find at the mall, the online handbag, purse and fashion accessory market is an exciting and exotic new world.
The variety of unique handbag and purse designs keeps getting bigger, better and more innovative all the time, but as with every kind of fashion accessory, interesting trends emerge with every new season. Here is a brief rundown of what’s coming in unique purses and handbags in 2006.
Cloth Purses
Cloth purses are very casual fashion items, so colorful fabrics and whimsical patterns are the strongest trend. If you love bold colors and striking contrasts you’ll have a great time shopping for cloth purses this season.
A cloth purse is mostly a spring/summer fashion accessory, so expect to see warm colors, and light breezy cotton or nylon fabrics. Fresh, summery patterned fabrics with flowers, fruits and ladybugs are always popular.
Also very fashionable is the clever and practical reversible cloth purse. You can literally turn the purse inside out to reveal the alternative fabric pattern, so you have two purses in one.
Monogrammed handbags
Monogrammed bags and purses never really go out of style, and this season we’ll see a huge range of colors, shapes sizes and styles.
A strong upcoming trend is leather sling hipster handbags with elegantly embossed initials or a name. Soft leather is a beautiful fabric for handbags because it’s durable, always very stylish, and it goes with everything. Sling handbags are very comfortable to carry, and perfect either for business or as a casual accessory.
Monogrammed tote bags
Tote bags are the most casual fashion accessory of all, and perfect for the beach, for picnics, or for a little shopping. Monogrammed tote bags are also great for kids to carry their school books or gym clothes, and having their initials or name printed on the bag means they won’t lose it.
Soft cotton canvas is the classic fabric for tote bags, and we’ll see an abundance of canvas tote bags this season.
The big trend for monogrammed tote bags will be big initials, printed across the whole side panel of the bag in big, bold colors. A single first initial of your first name as a monogram has a casual, whimsical kind of feel.
Dog purses
Everyone loves dogs, which is why the fashion for handbags, tote bags and purses decorated with a full panel photo of a gorgeous dachshund, poodle, beagle, yorkie or dalmatian just keeps getting stronger and stronger every year. Dog purses are a great gift idea for anyone whose best friend is their beloved hound.
Custom-made dog purses are also becoming more and more popular. You can have your own photograph of your dog printed onto a handbag, so your bag, like your dog, will be truly one of a kind.
Photo purses
Photo purses are simply ultra-cool, and the most individual and personal of fashion statements. You can have your own photo of anything you like printed onto a purse or handbag, like a special person in your life, your cat, dog or bird, or even your car.
A very trendy idea is to use a romantic old photograph of a relative as a model for your photo purse, so you can cherish their memory wherever you go.
Initial purses
Initial purses are a fashion accessory with a personal touch, and they make wonderful gifts. You can have just about any kind of purse printed, embroidered or embossed with a single initial or set of two or three initials in a wide variety of styles.
As for handbags, leather will be a big trend in the upcoming season for purses. We’ll see lots of small leather purses with a comfortable sling shoulder strap, elegantly embossed with two or three initials.
Cigar box purses
Cigar box purses are another strong trend for the coming year. They’re literally made from a wooden cigar box, fitted with a clasp and a handle, and embossed with an artistic or photographic image.
The most fashionable cigar box purses are decorated with advertising images from the glamorous 1920’s and 30’s. European advertising artwork from that period has a particularly elegant and alluring style, so we’ll be seeing a lot of Cinzano, Cognac and French Perfume labels on cigar box purses.
Hobo purses
Hobo purses can be cool and casual for shopping, or groovy and glamorous to go with evening wear.
Casual style hobo purses come in suede or leather, and soft colors like pastel pinks, beige, cream and white are very much in vogue.
A new look for hobo purses which is on the way in is a small purse in a gold or silver mesh fabric, or even ultra-glamorous sequins and rhinestones. These purses are a new take on the traditional evening purse, and make an eye-catching alternative.
Clutch handbags
Clutch purses and handbags have an elegant, streamlined look, but they’re the perfect size to carry all those little necessities.
The big look for clutch purses and clutch handbags in the coming year will be all glamour. Shiny metallic gold, silver, bronze and platinum shades will be the strong colors of the season, in soft suede leather.
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People who have always wanted access to fashionable bags – bags that make a positive statement of style about the carrier – but who were put off by the often hefty price of high-end bags can now enjoy the prestige of carrying a fashionable bag without having to mess up with their pocketbooks; thanks mainly to the availability of lv Replicas that are going at a fraction of what ‘original’ Louis Vuitton bags go for.
Louis Vuitton is itself considered the ultimate hand-bag brand by many women, with most of the leading women icons in the society being often spotted straddling a lv on their shoulders. But many other ladies of more modest means who would also have wanted the prestige of being spotted with the Louis Vuitton upon their shoulders have often been put off by the hefty prices that ‘original’ lv bags go for, effectively putting on hold their dreams of ever owning one such bag.
Someone might, at this point, express concerns as to whether the replicas are as good as the ‘real thing’ – and one who does is so likely to be a person who has not come across one such Louis Vuitton replica. This is because the replicas in question here are complete look-a-likes to the ‘original’ Louis Vuitton bags – and so complete, in fact, is the resemblance between them that even a person involved in making the so-called ‘original’ Louis Vuitton bags would be hard-pressed to tell the difference between the Louis Vuitton replica and the Louis Vuitton ‘original.’
The replica is therefore exactly like the Louis Vuitton ‘original’ in all ways – material, design and so on – except in price, where the replica goes for what can only be described as a fraction of what the ‘original’ Louis Vuitton goes for.
The fact that the lv replica is made in the (exact) same design (and from the very same material as the lv replica means that it offers the opportunity for the bag enthusiast to enjoy benefits of a fashionable bag for less, and that virtually nobody – beside the bag’s carrier – will be able to tell that what they are carrying is a replica, and not the original lv.
The fact that the lv replica is made from the exact material that the ‘original’ lv is made from – and in exactly the exact same design – means that properly cared for, the lv replica can be as durable as the replica.
The difference in price between the ‘original’ lv bag and the lv replica simply arises from the fact that the makers of the replica don’t have to invest in the brand-building exercise, and this results in a considerable cost savings, which they pass onto the buyers of their product, translating into the lower prices that the lv replica goes for. To use a common analogy, this is very like the way makers of generic medication are able to sell their product (the exact same formulations) at a lower price than the original makers of those medications, as they – the generic makers – don’t have to invest in initial research and development.