That is 120 billion dollars women are carrying around in handbags nationwide. And
can you blame us, really, when there is such an abundance of variety in the handbag markete It could well be argued that
handbags have overtaken shoes as the luxury collectable accessory of choice for celebrities and ordinary women alike. But in
fact handbags may have had as long and controversial a history as the ubiquitous high heel, and according to handbag
historians they were used in a similar way - to show the status of the wearer. In the fourteenth century, the richer and more
powerful the person was, the more jewels and embroidery festooned the handbag.
