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A Handbag for Every Occasion

posted by admin 10:25 AM
Monday, March 9, 2009

A Handbag for Every Occasion

There are few items in this world that are as functional and important for everyday existence as the ladies handbag. They help women with everything from looking good to managing her finances and everything in between.

Of course, a good handbag serves as a fashion accessory. Designer handbags and clutches are a staple of the Red Carpet at every Hollywood premier and awards show. They can highlight a formal gown or add an extra touch of elegance to business attire. A stylish handbag can be a topic of conversation and a convenient ice-breaker at parties and social functions. “Oh, I just had to tell you how much I love your handbag…”

Of course, a handbag is a financial organizer as well. With pockets for the checkbook, credit cards, cash, grocery coupons, a calculator, shopping lists, receipts, and even coins for making exact change at the register, it’s a wonder that men can handle basic transactions without one. Of course, most ladies can also quickly pull out a writing pen with which to fill out a check for that must have purchase.

A woman’s purse is also a first aid kit. It may contain aspirin, facial tissues, throat lozenges, prescription medications, inhalers, and treatments for every imaginable illness or injury that might occur to herself or her children. Those medications, of course, include a bit of candy to be used as a placebo to help a child more scared by than injured by a fall to feel better at once.

A handbag is an indispensible beauty aid as well. We’ve already mentioned it as a fashion accessory, but it can also serve as a complete make-up studio. Lipsticks, powders, eyeliners, and mascaras of every type and color can often be found in the handbag, along with all the needed implements and equipment with which to apply them. Even a handy mirror to check the results can be pulled from the handbag at a moment’s notice.

A handbag can be a key element of personal safety and self defense. Once it gets up to speed swinging at the end of the shoulder strap, a handbag can deliver a knockout blow or at least dissuade would be attackers. The purse should also contain a cell phone with which to call the police, a signal whistle for more immediate assistance, and quite possibly mace, pepper spray or a hand-held taser where such self-defense accoutrements are legal.

All of these items and benefits are the result of the ladies handbag being readily available where ever she goes, but there is also a very good chance that the purse will contain some number of random items that can be of assistance in virtually any situation. Just, imagine how much MacGyver could have accomplished if he had carried a women’s purse and its usual contents with him during his daily travels.