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Queens: they're just like us! The monarch's loyal subjects have been dying for a peek into 85-year-old Queen Elizabeth's classic Launer handbag for decades. But according to royal biographer Bedell Smith, the Queen's purse holds everyday items such as lipstick, a mirror, and a £5 note "to donate to the church collection on Sundays." (Sometimes she splurges as much as £10, if she's feeling really extravagant.) Smith says the purse also contains glasses, mint lozenges and a fountain pen, and that her ladies-in-waiting are responsible for other basics: extra gloves, needs and thread, etc. Seriously? There's not even a trashy romance novel or OK! Magazine stashed in there? More »
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Okay, we don't know how big a purse these folks are carrying, but we love a list that ran today of green essentials to carry at all times. It got us thinking about the other essentials every purse should have: More »
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Retailers claim womens' bags are getting lighter. Our backs - and the crushed fig Newtons on the bottoms of our purses - say otherwise: More »
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Olympia Le-Tan makes amazing clutch purses based on the jackets of first editions. As she says, they're "mainly classics, as unfortunately the covers of books nowadays are not as nice as they used to be." [DazedDigital] More »
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This bag. [FailBlog] More »
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If you're anything like us, the first thing you'll think when you see this uncanny beef jerky "Chanel" bag is, Beware of Dog! The purse was made by design student Nancy Wu at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA; we'd really like to hear what Kaiser Karl would have to say about this one. (And yes, we do know that Slim Jim is actually spiced beef.) [Gigglesugar] More »
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We know Rihanna and Gucci's tattoo heart campaign is to benefit UNICEF, and it's obviously a good cause, so should we not admit that we find the new ad to be simultaneously the most boring and hilarious thing we've ever seen? For those of you who can't have the pleasure of immediate gratification: it's basically just Rihanna and this purse posturing in front of a camera making significant faces while some weird smooth jam plays. Sometimes she and/or the purse (which is ugly) are kind of suspended in space. It's awesome. [Just Jared] More »
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Large bags were a ubiquitous fashion trend in 2007, and the trend for 2008? Bigger bags. Are we just getting used to carrying a ton of stuff? Poor Andy Rooney, who noticed this trend back in November, is going to be apoplectic. According to the Wall Street Journal, doctors say the recommended weight of a handbag should be no more than 1 or 2 pounds. With a wallet, keys, cell phone, camera, lip gloss, gum, notebook and business card holder, it's hard to carry a clutch that weighs less than a pound these days. Add a laptop, some magazines and bottled water and you're lugging a load. But the oversized purses keep coming: Michael Kors' Beverly bag is over 13 inches high and 17 inches wide; the YSL downtown bag is 17 inches high and 11 inches wide. And the Louis Vuitton bag pictured could easily transport a newborn child. More »
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Why wear your heart on your sleeve when you can wear a uterus on your purse? Made of wool felt and leather, it'll set you back $90. [Peel Out via Sexblo.gs] More »
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Today's Financial Times reports that French luxury goods group LVMH had strong third-quarter sales, thanks in part to the Louis Vuitton "Neverfull" handbag, pictured. Additionally, Burberry also had revenue growth thanks to its line of handbags. In a video posted on the NY Times' website on Sunday, controversial Times columnist Deborah Solomon hits the streets of Manhattan and tries to figure out why purses these days cost so much. Well, not why they cost so much, but why people are willing to spend so much. More »
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If you really like purses, and we mean really really REALLY like purses, then head on over to The Purse Blog, which declares frighteningly accurately that 'Shallow Obssessing [is] Strongly Encouraged'. More »
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