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Why do Women so Love Bags[/b]
Rail and sea travel caused an explosion in the popularity of fashionable luggage such as suitcases, dressing cases, hat and shoe boxes - out of which the modern [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] developed.
It's no accident that many of today's most luxurious handbag design houses, such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Prada and Hermes, originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as travel became more common. Then, as women gained financial independence, so the handbag industry flourished out of all proportion to its humble origins.
Now a big luxury conglomerate such as [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] makes millions of pounds a year from handbag sales alone.
But the way the right bag can make us feel goes far deeper than just being a way of carrying things around.
Both revealing and concealing, it also represents something deeply private to its owner.
This stems largely from the fact that the handbag was originally developed from a silk purse or pocket worn next to the skin for safety. In times gone by pockets were classed almost as items of underwear - secret places hidden under sumptuous material and reached by a slit in the skirt.
These almost risque; connotations remained when the first prototype [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] were developed in the late 18th century in the form of reticules - exquisitely embroidered, handled pouches in damask, satin and velvet,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in which a woman would could carry cosmetics, a fan for flirtation, smelling salts and cartes de visite, all without compromising the slim-line fit of the newly fashionable Empire-line dresses.
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