Since ancient bag, embroidered with beads, which were the spiritual leaders of some African tribes, and to modern creations of haute couture, bags were repositories of secrets (or at least a necessary items), and a status symbol. Because of this bag - especially female handbag - repeatedly and variously interpreted by representatives of various areas of psychology, including psychoanalysis. Someone even suggested to consider the contents of the unconscious representations handbags - and really, handbag can tell a lot about its owner. However, for most women, it is much more important what people think of designer handbags that create those bags that will be in vogue tomorrow.

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Although the notion of a handbag as an article of clothing has appeared only in the middle of the 19th century, people used different kinds of bags Bags - a necessary thing in every woman's wardrobe   for a long time. On the Egyptian murals can be seen of men who wore bags on the belt, and in the biblical texts Judas Iscariot carried a purse or a bag of money, which are wires apostles and their Master.

In the 14th and 15th centuries, men and women in Europe were small bag on the belt - as the pocket was not there, these bags were items that could be needed at any time. This bag is, in fact, bag and tied with a rope or a leather lace. Material and that make such bag depended on the person's status and fashion.

In the 16th and 17th century women's skirts reached enormous proportions, and so fashionable previously small waist bag can easily get lost in the folds of cloth. Women began to wear a small purse under her skirt, and men had small leather bags, which were under the then fashionable breeches. Peasants and travelers wore large leather or cloth shoulder bag, which crossed the torso diagonally - they can be seen on some paintings by Pieter Brueghel.

In addition, because in those days people did not carefully monitor their hygiene, many aristocrats were carrying small bags or bags with herbs or pieces of cloth soaked in perfume.

After the Revolution, skirts became less popular, and entered into a fashion rather narrow skirts for bags and pouches are not perpetuated. They again began to wear on the mind - now these bags came to be called handbag.

In the 19th century, despite the fact that the clothing is widely used conventional pockets, women continued to wear bags. Moreover, they spend huge amounts of time on their sewing bags; often on their initials embroidered ladies and her potential husband. Bags were in the hands or attach them to your belt.

But the real revolution in fashion for various bags began with the construction of railways. As women became more mobile manufacturers luggage Luggage started making not only bulky suitcases and small bags that you can carry in your hand - if there was such a thing as hand luggage. Many of today's well-known manufacturer of handbags began his career at the time. For example, Thierry Hermes engaged in manufacturing of harness and saddles before opening his own company for the production of bags in 1837. Louis Vuitton in the early 19th century, engaged in the manufacture of luggage, and in 1854 he had his own trading house, which sold a variety of bags, by the company he founded. Modern bags are often reminiscent of old suitcases its clasps, rivets, and sometimes size.

The twentieth century

In the 20th century the fashion for handbags evolved as quickly as the rest of this century. Women could choose between small handbags, small leather bags Leather bags: selection and care   bags for shopping and quite large. After World War I there was a clutch - a small handbag without handles, which women wore armpit. Found in the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923 led to a surge in fashion for Egyptian motifs that immediately reflected in the design of bags.

By the 1930s almost all kinds of bags that people use today were invented. Popular at this time of Art Deco inspired designers to use such achievements industrialization, as plastic and zipper.

The Second World War changed the rounded, flowing shapes on a hard and sharp, peculiar military style. Bags became larger, rectangular and practical - they reflect the desire and the need for women to be strong and self-sufficient. Since lightning, mirrors, and the skin is not enough, the designers turning to wood and new synthetic materials. There was woven bag - it is often the details of the house with his own hands. In Britain during the war created in such a way that they are suitable to the wardrobe, and that they could wear a mask. Almost everywhere women began to wear bags on their shoulders; after the war, these bags have become an attribute of travel, and came back into fashion only in the 1970s.

The economic recovery that began in the 1950s, made the bag almost iconic wardrobe item. Leading fashion houses vengeance benefited from an era when the right combination of colors, textures and accessories has become almost a moral standard. A small bag, which has become fashionable to attribute the post-war fashion, marked the return to femininity, as well - the women return from the factory to the home.

In the 1960s, the concept of an acceptable and proper clothes quickly loosens. Purses on long chains or straps are the first step towards the traditions of comfort. Then began to enter into fashion handbags made of fabric, often embroidered with flowers, the symbols of the hippie era. By the end of the 1970s, large bags over his shoulder finally prevail in fashion - now they had a lot of zippers, pockets and rivets. Most convenient bag again became one of the symbols of struggle, but now is not against fascism, and for women's equality.

In the 1980s, for the first time raised the question of how to influence the health of the bag. It immediately resonated with fashion designers - they began to create bags, more like a sport than elegant ladies. Prada has released a black nylon backpack, which was the first bag unisex. Around the same time, there was a classic quilted bag from Vera Bradley.

Today, fashion is almost any bag. At least, the designers use a variety of styles and materials - from fur Fur - Luxury is timeless Flax, waterproof synthetic fabrics, artificial leather to the reptile. Bag over his shoulder for a long time considered a female attribute, are now becoming more and more popular among men. Perhaps that is the cause of democracy bags that they have for many years remained a fixture in the wardrobe and, apparently, if it will go out of fashion very soon.

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