Leather Handbags – The Bizarre and the Beautiful

There’s no doubt that leather handbags can be beautiful, stylish, glamorous and sophisticated. But handbags can also be bizarre.

Italian leather handbags

If you are going to a party, you’d leave the conservative Mrs Thatcher inspired leather handbags at home. Sparkly, colourful and fluffy should be the kind of handbags that you dance around. Going to a job interview? Then those conservative leather handbags will fit right in – these leather handbags say that you are stable, confident, stylish and safe. The fact that woman have plenty of handbags, like shoes, is because your handbag says a lot about you. And you’ll want to choose the right one for the right occasion.

What’s in your handbag?

Its common sense that the typical things women carry in their leather handbags is the universally useful stuff - keys, purses, hankies and mobile phones. There are variations of course; students could have a dog-eared copy of an Albert Camus novel, mothers tend to be overloaded with spare baby wipes and dummies, and young urbanites have the latest cosmetics and MP3 players. But what about the likes of celebrities? The Paris Hiltons of the world wouldn’t dare be seen with such mundane objects. Their designer leather handbags tend to be home to small designer dogs.

Leather handbags and pooches

The trend for carrying small dogs in small designer leather handbags became such a concern that the animal charity, the RSPCA, waded in to warn dog-owners that dogs need to be able to move around to stay healthy. Famous faces who tucked their pooches into their leather handbags included Geri Halliwell and Paris Hilton. The idea that an animal should be part of a fashion accessory didn’t go down well with many dog lovers. Plopping your pooch in a handbag can have a negative impact on its health. And what if the pooch plops in your bag?

Italian leather handbags – a wardrobe staple

Everybody knows that it’s important to have a stylish handbag - from Italian leather handbags to top designer names. And for celebrities, it is even more important. But it isn’t just how their handbags look that matters – it’s what they carry in them.

Calling all handbags

But it isn’t just what some people put into their leather handbag that’s bizarre – the bags themselves can be just as weird too. Take the Telephone Bag – it’s been dubbed as the ultimate girl’s gadget, combining the two most important accessories for the modern women – a handbag and a telephone. Shaped in a 1970s handset, the working telephone never really took off – why? Because it has to be plugged into a phone cable to work. And why have a handbag shaped as a telephone when you can have a stylish leather handbag that holds an up-to-date mobile with Bluetooth, MP3 and email facilities?

Solar powered handbags

If the Telephone Bag wasn’t bizarre enough, following that was the Solar Powered Bag. The idea is that when you open up your stylish leather handbags, the sun hits the solar panels and lights up the bags interior – so you’ll never loose anything ever again. Whether the majority of women want the contents of the leather handbags illuminated for all to see is another thing entirely.

If you are simply looking for beautiful stylish leather handbags, choose Maxell Scott. Maxwell Scott produces fine quality luxury leatherhandbags, briefcases, luggage and accessories. The Maxwell Scott brand is synonymous with style, quality and craftsmanship. Using the finest Italian leather with over 500 years of traditional tanning methods, choose Maxwell Scott for hand crafted, original designs that exude an elegance and quality recognised throughout the world. For sales enquiries email: sales@maxwellscottbags.com or telephone: 0870 24 24 684.

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