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EVENING ELEGANCE

This section features a range of handbags for an elegant evening out

BEADED GLITZ

This section features a range of handbags for that glitzy occasion     

GIRLS NITE OUT

This section features a range of handbags ideal for that fun nite out

LAZY SUMMER

This section features a range of handbags ideal to take on holiday     

SOMETHING SPECIAL

This section features a range of handbags for any occasion

SIMPLY STUNNING

This section features a range of unusual handbags to impress              

FABULOUS DARLING

This section features a range of handbags for those special events

The History of Handbags

People have carried small purses for coins etc since olden days, and until the 18th century women kept their accessories hanging on chains known as chatelaines from their waists. It is only since around the turn of the last century that women have started carrying what could be classified as handbags.

The 19th century saw the onset of what are probably the most pretty, intricate and expensive handbags – hand stitched with hundreds of tiny beads and often set on silver clasps and chains.

World War II bought the shoulder bag which developed from the old gas mask box which could be slung across the body and carried easily at all times.

The 1920s saw celluloid bags come into fashion featuring daring detail like mother of pearl, enamel and saw lipstick holders, compacts and mirrors discreetly designed to go inside.

Clutch bags developed in the 1930s/1940s in line with the new bias-cut costume of the day and from the 1940s to the 1950s bags became quite extravagant and innovative made of all sorts of materials and featured novel frivolous extras all over the outside of the bag.

America took the lead in the fashion world in the 1950s with its range of lucite bags. Lucite was a by-product of wartime technology and a hard plastic that allowed designers to decorate them all over and produce handbags as novelty boxes.