The Evoloution of Women's Handbags

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The most essential element of a women’s wardrobe and is also functional and fashionable is a handbag or purse. A purse can be defined as a small bag or a case for caring essential items. There are multiple kinds of purses, some of the most popular ones are; totes, handbags, and pocketbooks. Whichever name you use when describing your purse, they are an items lusted by many women. The inside of a women’s purse is just as unique as women’s personally. Every women caries different items in there purse that they consider essential to them. Some of the most common items that you can find in almost every purse are; keys, phones, wallets, makeup bags, and other essential items women consider important. By the late twentieth century, purses evolved from accessories used for carrying personal items to status symbols that could be priced at thousands of dollars.
Purses where even around during the Middle Ages, and they date all the way back as far as 2600 B.C.E. Many people used them such as the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. The Egyptians used a double-handled leather bag that was a suspended from sticks. Just like the Egyptians the ancient Greeks also used leather bags called byrsa. The word byrsa is the origin of the word purse, as a coin purse. Later on the roman women used a net purse or to them it was called a reticulum. This was the first kind of evidence that purses where used to transport personal items. Early development of currency in Euro during the Roman Empire made purses an essential for men. Early European purses can be found in sculptures and mosaics going back as early as the third to firth centuries. They can be described as a lather sack with shoulder straps, and where worn by male commoner or peasants. Up into the 1...

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...t wrap bags where usually beaded and were fabricated with a beaded fabric strap. Purses became more and more functional over time, and most of the time purses included separate compartments to hold various items. Some of the most common items women carried in those separate compartments include things like; money, lipstick, mirror, and a handkerchief. Campbell, Kathleen. McElvain, Jean. "A Brief History of the Purse up to 1930."
Purses have evolved from time to time; they have been around for centuries. In the beginning the main use for them was to carry essential items from place to place. The design and size of them may have changed, but the main purpose stayed the same. Every woman carries their own essential items that they consider are important to them. Over time the use of purses became more of status symbols that could be priced at thousands of dollars.

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