As a handbag therapist you can imagine my shock when I come across a fully grown, mentally together woman who only owns one handbag!!!! Yikes! Shuck! Tut!
Is it because my own collection now spans end to end across the shelves of two triple-door wardrobes – excluding the ‘out of season’ stock – boxed and bagged up in the loft! Or, is it because the (self confessed minimalist) admits such a fact with a tinge of ‘Scarlet Woman’ shamefully hidden behind her voice?
Then again, I do on occassion meet the other sort of confessional woman who almost spits her one bag status out at me, with knife throwing precision, that comes with one who basks in the unspoken brazen glory of ” what you going to make of that, Therapy girl”!
After years of reading ladies bags I offer our atypical lasses some simple thoughts and observations. For some of us one bag really does do the job. It fulfills our perfunctory needs and like a car gets us from A to B. To these ladies I say – that’s great, and why change if it isn’t broken? …. Just be sure to make a point of checking out from time to time what else is on the market and available. The days of car chokes to get them started are long behind us. Today’s mod-cons (in or out of the car) are worth a quiet investigation. After all not much compares with the joy of discovering an inside pocket sized perfectly to match your iphone and another to suit your blackberry. Or the heaven of a handy gold clasp for easy key access and storage. We no longer need to battle with leaking pens or lippies; ruined hankies and inside bag linings. My advise is simple – check out what you might be missing just in case you’ve grown accustomed to ‘making do’ because it’s what you know – but may not be all that you deserve!
Now, to deal with our metaphorical knife hurling handbag mysoginst (and I don’t use the term lightly), either she is ‘anti-all things womanly bound’ and sets out to prove she is different! Or, she’d love to embrace ‘girl power‘ but what will those who know her well, think? = Turncoat! After all these years, she’s become one of them! So in a flight of rebellion we hear and see apathy – deliberate, controlled, and usually for the benefit of the others.
Now this my darlings is not a way to live! Forget handbags for a moment – and let’s be clear about some bigger issues at play: be YOURSELF wherever that leads you. Nothing is permanent and life is too short to spend it sticking rigidly to a belief you thought helpful! Once upon a time it will have served you well, for sure, but today it may no longer be your friend!
To leave you with (whichever you identify with) a positive and unapologetically feminine note – I just adore Friendship bags for youngsters – promoting friendship, sharing, fun and cooperation. The real beauty of the Rebelle bags is that it gives you endless handbag looks whilst owning only the ONE!
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I was amazed to hear of people who think not having millions of handbags is insane – as I told you I only have a purse which measures 5″x 4″ and the zipper is broken – get rid of baggage and trust that’s what I say!
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You pave a creative, brave path against the face of mediocrity! You won’t be alone – although not sure about the broken zip – sounds like some unfinished lose ends in life to be sorted out! Thanks for sharing with us x