Your handbag.

I also received a lovely BIG BOX in the mail with a very cute selfmade handbag! My husband was in awe of the sender's talent to make handbags. :-D

I change mine all the time, depending on what I'm wearing, what the season is, what mood I'm in etc etc.

Today I have one of these with me :

http://www.bagsdirect.com/ProductImages/h/kipling/BD-K-13186-LRED-kipling-arkan.jpg

That's a Kipling bag, right? I'm not sure what's more important for me: a handbag or shoes. I'm extremely fussy about both tbh. :-(

Now that I'm lugging school books around with my again, I'm using my trusty Muji backpack but that's pretty boring.

I love bags. A log. My old favorites are a black leather hobo bag that seems to go with everything and isn't too big or a bright purple leather shoulder bag.

Hmmmm. Now I want a new one. I think I'll go browse online and see what's new for Fall.

Now that all the bags I was working on have been gifted I will post pics on Flickr (tonight). I've so far done two slightly different patterns myself but every time I make them, I change a little bit. Not completely happy yet.

Although I love love love handbags I really don't carry much them much myself. I like collecting them and making them.

Recently I bought fabric to make two for myself (I never make things for myself). One just a plan tote with a lovely pink hues striped cotton on the outside and beautiful reddish/pinkish taffeta on the inside. (this may not be practical but I don't care. I love the taffeta.) Also I plan on making a small hobo-style bag out of some denim with embroidered cherries I found.

I really need an industrial machine (or at least something more heavy duty) for handbag making.

Every day I carry a large lilac/brown shaped tote to work and a small reversible denim/pink polka dote bag when going to the store and stuff.

I love bags.

After my two mentioned above I'm going to tackle a messenger bag. As a gift of course.

I cart my stuff around in a lowe alpine day sack during the week and at the weekend use a rather non-descript black nylon shoulder bag with lots of useful pockets (so many pockets that I frequently lost my lighter in them when I still smoked). I did have a nice roomy brown tooled leather satchel but the strap gave up the ghost so I'm keeping an eye out for a replacement. I've also got a large selection of beaded and chainmail evening bags but seldom have the opportunity to take them out.

I've noticed that in Japan a handbag is extremely important. Women will go out of their way (?) to get the It Bag, an LV, a Prada or whatever. Here people don't really consider it all that important.

Are status symbols just more important there in general?

nathalie that bad is gorgeous you should get it

bag

Are you drunk?

haha no!!

what i am is jealous of you ladies getting to sport big beautiful bags like that. :-(

Go for the man-purse. Be brave. And while you're at it a util-kilt and mandals.

okay i do have a man-purse but its like BORING. diesel black leather with mesh and steel thing. small. i mean i like it but i want one of those uberbig glam bags. they have some for men at like armani but that's definitely a month's rent.

Are status symbols just more important there in general?

Well, I can only/mainly speak for Tokyo and, yes, I do think that status symbols do play a major role there. I don't think I have ever seen an Hermes bag here in my town, but it's certainly not uncommon to see a woman sporting one in Tokyo. Not sure if I would ever splash out 8000 euros on a bag. I can understand the craftmanship behind it, but it just seems a bit over the top. Then again maybe if I or my husband earned a stackload of money, then I'd probably do it. *shrug*.

I'm a big fan of the oversized totes made by Prada and Marc Jacobs. I just droooool.

Also in Japan handbags do play a prominent role in women's attire. More so than here, I think.

i hear ya

I want to have that bag up there, together with this:

http://images.saksfifthavenue.com/images/products/04/534/8611/0453486115865/0453486115865_CNUDO_275x275.jpg

Yeah I think spending money like that (thousands) on clothing, shoes, bags is just ridiculous. I don't think I could ever do it I don't care how rich I was.

i just got this the other day:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1154/1194260195_339a1327e2_m.jpg

fuck nat shoes with bag = speechless

OMG LAUREN - that color is my bag color of the moment. SO HOT.

i'm seen some more teal-ish but that straight cobalt or whatever the eff u call it really gets me

i love royal blue/indigo, so i'm really happy that it's popular at the moment.

while we're talking shoes, i lust after these:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1055/1195158104_6e4198c894_m.jpg

amazing.

so that's what the color is called? royal blue/indigo? it's definitely my favorite accessories color of the moment. simple, sexy, striking.

i don't know if that's the right name for it, but i think it's a royal blue. indigo has a little more purple in it, which i also like.

yep you're right

royal blue

http://www.gooseview.com/images/Web%20Graphics/Camo%20Swatches/royalblue.jpg

to die

Can you get one of those, in cobalt blue, so I can compare the perfect blue?

cobalt
http://www.hectarus.com/photos/photo-Elenali-Colors-410-Cobalt-Blue.jpg

so a bit darker?

i like the royal but cobalt works

Mmmmm, cobalt blue is my favourite colour of all time, I just wanted to look at it.

Royal blue just reminds me of unclicked links. (Ha ha, I am such a geek.)

Web developers pls to employ more custom stylesheets, kthx.

Now if we could just get in some Yves Klein International blue, and I'd be in my blue heaven.

i got this bag on my honeymoon & love it:

http://www.thecucumbersandwich.com/ProductImages/fall06%201064%20(Custom).jpg

that's really cute

oh yea i never thought about unclicked links as being royal blue! my screen just took on a whole new persona...

I found a pic of one of the purses I've made recently on my data stick:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1435/1195554506_fe260c425a.jpg

Basic kind of boxy design, I think it was the first purse I made. The one I made for Nath was the same material but wider and slouchier. Also had strap instead of handles.

way cute!

Ooh, Sam, that's lovely. I'm not really a bag sort of person, in that I don't care enough to choose ones for myself, but my m-in-law keeps buying me bags so I have rather a lot, and they're mostly really nice.

Must complete the blue set:

http://www.iqc.ca/~dstebila/blog/stuff/2003/kleinblue.jpg

ya i'm totally impressed with that purse mm (sam is it, then?)

now wait what blue is that? is that international blue or whatever? (i didn't even know that was a blue)

whatever it is, i wear that color ^ really well

That's International Klein Blue, that last one. It's a slightly darker version of Cobalt.

right. v nice

http://www.2modern.com/c.418126/site/ProductImages/angelaadams/hannah-spring-01.jpg
i have been alternating between this one and a green and blue patterned one lately

I really want an industrial machine so I can do leather. Finishing edges with impossibly thick layers of many fabrics and interfacing is bad enough on my machine. It's barely over a year old but I think I'm about to kill it.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1419/1194849293_8413f3ae93_m.jpg

if anyone wants to (indefinitely) loan me $2400, then i'll take this one.

I am disappointed that nathalie missed her golden chance to entitle this thread: "your fossicking handbag". These opportunitites come around only so often, you know, and one must make hay while the sun is properly situated and all that.

oo lauren.

i like the yellow one bell! so does anyone carry a small purse anymore??

Lauren, I love love LOVE that handbag as well.

http://www.net-a-porter.com/intl/images/product/23581/large/index.jpg

Love this Marc Jacobs bag as well. Not sooo terribly expensive either.

Basic kind of boxy design, I think it was the first purse I made. The one I made for Nath was the same material but wider and slouchier. Also had strap instead of handles.

-- Ms Misery, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:26 (1 hour ago) Link

way cute!

I know! I'm so happy with the one Sam made me. Even my husband was in complete awe of it. :-)

i can't do halter tops. Just doesn't look right. . .

Oh I know, Sam. :-)

Halter tops are horrendous if you have big breasts. Or slouch. So I don't wear'em.

lol okay fine errant example but the POINT is imagine, ladies, being confined to pants and button downs in various appropriate colors AS YOUR WHOLE FUCKING WARDROBE

lauren i am really liking everything prada this season, as hideous as it seemed first showing up on the runway! that and balenciaga but i wouldn't get a bag from them, i'd get one of their preppy fitted blazers and the robot shoes
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/shoe_big.jpg

my usual bag is just a doctor's bag from club monaco in a weird sort of muddied very dark brown with some dark blue and black in it. not really camouflage (i am against camouflage) but more like if someone was trying to do camo using blue/black watercolors. it's kind of ugly in a cool way i think

xpost

So cross-dress. You'd hardly be the first.

::deep breath::

that fucking shoe is amazing

i know i'm working on it sam

Didn't Ghesquiere design those shoes? Who's behind the label now?

Prada is just DA YUM. I also like everything this season. Same goes for Marc Jacobs, he's been doing great stuff.

i like that mj bag, nath.

i'm also hyperventilating over prada's elbow-length two- or three-tone leather gloves (at a mere $700, ha).

so i have a gift card to saks that i haven't used yet because everything there is so expensive, but i found these on the site:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1247/1195493435_1df8e60758_m.jpg

if i used the card, they'd be affordable. i'm really tempted.

very nice, would you be able to pair them with outfits?

How much?

about $75 in addition to the gift card.

most of my clothes are black, grey, or some other solid color that would work.

Those flats would go with a lot of things. $75 doesn't seem like a bad deal.

Lauren, they're fab. You should get them, if you possibly can.

i just double-checked the site to see if they've got my size etc and it turns out that i misread the price. $25 with my gift card! that's my fall pair of shoes sorted out, then.

Deadly! There you are, then.

those are fantastic lauren!

i feel bad being so materialistic, but i just did a little snoopy dance at my desk at the thought of having those shoes.

=-)

I LOVE THOSE SHOES!!! Damn.

the balenciaga pair i posted, yes, that's ghesquiere.. i think they are like $1400 :(

and who is going to knock those off? i can't see it happening

zara has some nice knockoffs of the prada style shoes (they never have my size though) and some colorblock/40's style tops, i got two of those..
but it'll be hard to find the type of prada stuff that i really like! i have one super fuzzy black pullover sweater that I cut the sleeves off and started wearing last year, thinking it was the time for it but.. can't afford these pieces sadly!

http://www.style.com/slideshows/fashionshows/F2007RTW/PRADA/RUNWAY/00190m.jpg

lauren i dig those shoes too! cute!

the snoopy dance *in* the shoes will be even better.

I'm lusting after one of these at the moment:
http://bolsabonita.com/satchel/index.htm

Lauren, those shoes are just so beautiful! Buy buy buy BUY!

K, dude, those are so easily DIY. And it would be even better b/c whatever art you put on the front would be all about you!

Mine looks kind of like CJ's red one up top, but it's from wal-mart and has a flap over the top. I like Sam's pink and black homemade one, it's awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVFuAIZ2PWU

(Sorry, no video.)

That fabric is awesome. I bought it closeout and if I have enough left I'm going to make a skirt for winter.

xpost hahah very appropriate. i wish i lived in tokyo and could visit the miu miu shop on a daily basis. :-)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1360/1204744987_7ab33b0777.jpg

waddayasay?

Like I said on the knitting thread, very nice. :) Are you going to line it?

Nope, don't think so. It said it wasn't needed and, quite frankly, it scared me. Next time. :-)

MORE HANDBAGS PLS

I'm undecided about whether to buy a tote or shoulder bag. (Yes, I'm being completely mental and am planning to buy a Miu Miu/Marc Jacobs bag. I'm even going so much overboard that I'm probably buying this 10 CM pumps (sans flaps though) I mentioned way up thread. Why oh why? I do this every couple of years: buy something ridiculously pretty but uncomfortable. Now with a new baby, do I want to totter around with a baby? Anyway, I do think a handbag is needed. :-)

http://www.net-a-porter.com/intl/images/product/24499/large/index.jpg

I quite like it, but I don't think the lock is practical.

Oh, that's lovely!

I know, but don't you think the lock is a bit unwieldly? I didn't notice the price. If it's close to 1000 euros, fuck it, I ain't buying it. :-)

Unwieldy? No. I think it's perfectly in proportion to the size of the bag. It looks great. I WANT.

Can I show a man-bag?

Today (and most days) Dr. C is modelling this (but in black) :

http://www.johnlewis.com/jl_assets/product/230208561.jpg

It's a John Lewis large messenger bag, and is cavernous.

Oh man, that is a GREBT man-bag!

CJ, I know but it seems *clumsy* if you wanna open and close it. WHAT TO DO!!!!!

I absolutely hate messenger bags. I just don't get the point of the flap over the top. So you have to flip the thing back every time you want to take something out of it? Annoying! (I realise this is my own personal issue. Nobody else seems to have a problem with them.) I'm more of a flight-bag person.

http://www.inretro.net/images/mbsu008-3a.jpg

Of course, since I don't travel by public transport much anymore, my need for such bags has greatly diminished.

Yes, the flappy thing can be a nuisance, but the side pocket is absolutely huge and I can fit all the stuff that I want to get access to all the time in there, leaving the inside compartment for secret stuff. I am a sucker for all the nice little pen compartments and pockets it has too.

Not sure about flight bags - a bit too square.

xpost Love that print!

It's cool, isn't it? I just googled for flight bags and got www.inretro.com. They have nice things.

nath that bag is to die

friend just got one with a v similar pattern. adorned but just enough, you know? looks very luxurious.

i dunno kno, the opening bag u posted is tough to beat

quite frankly, it scared me.

Great beginning sewing project!

http://failblog.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/fail-owned-purse-design-fail.jpg

haha

Tasteless filtered by Websense.

Yesterday I got a new purse, and I was excited about it because it seemed just right. The right size, the right closures, the right strap, the right price. It's brown, and usually I have black or burgundy purses, but that was ok. I have been through many purses throughout the years, and this one just called out to me from the store.

Bear with me here.

Today I put old stuff into new purse and tried it on, walked around the house a little with it. This feels really familiar for some reason.

Why do I have such strong positive feelings about this bag?

OH YEAH

It looks exactly -- and by exactly I mean almost exactly -- like the purse I had through most of high school. That one was black with silver zippers, this one is brown with faded gold-ish zippers, but it's basically the same damn purse.

Now I can barely look at it because I feel like such a sucker.