This Denise Dorrance cartoon was recently featured in Domino's Daily Dose. What do you think: true or false?
(I have been remiss in updating the blog of late, but with finals and a work-related project wrapping up in early May, regular posting will resume!)
So true :).Bags have really become a tool to compete among women...Like nothing else...
Posted by: Aiste | April 27, 2007 at 02:16 PM
P.S. And I think the reason for that is the dramatic increase of budgets for handbags and accessories marketing.Especially during the recent years. For example, i remember few years ago Printemps (the department store in Paris), didn't have separate shops for bags. Now , half of the second floor is dedicated to shops of YSL, Chanel, Prada, bags....
Posted by: Aiste | April 27, 2007 at 02:29 PM
ha ha, one of the women is probably me, dwarfed by a gigantic bag.
Posted by: candid cool | April 27, 2007 at 11:30 PM
Both hilarious and true!
Posted by: jesspgh | April 28, 2007 at 05:13 PM
I heard that sunglasses are the new handbags because of the fewer barriers to entry to first time consumers. I wonder if they will get bigger and bigger too...
Posted by: blackcrayon | May 02, 2007 at 03:24 PM
wouldnt it be less expensive to produce bigger bags than smaller bags due to economies of scale. larger outputs enables a firm to obtain lower priced inputs.
Posted by: manimal | May 03, 2007 at 12:41 AM
I think that's totally true.I have to admit that I'm into the larger bags to AND the oversized sunglasses are one of my favorites!:)
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Posted by: Linda | May 21, 2007 at 10:30 AM
A huge bag is all you need so you won't forget a thing at home!
Posted by: diana | July 11, 2007 at 08:15 AM
Haha I think this is hilarious! I actually prefer to carry around small bags unless I am toting books around, so I don't really agree with it, but I know some girls love their big bags! great blog! =)
Posted by: Samantha | August 17, 2007 at 11:08 PM
Genius!!!! That is me!!! My excuse is I like to be prepared for every occasion - the only problem is I am a very small 5ft 1 so I look even smaller against my enormous but very beautiful bag!!! x
Posted by: Laura Eyles | September 20, 2007 at 11:28 AM
Oh, I just LOVE the big bags. I live in NYC and the best is when someone gets on a really crowded train and "rests" her bag on you......that's a thrill! Yeah, I lust after them, but I also tend to hate on the big bag. :)
Posted by: Jeanne | November 12, 2007 at 08:05 PM
This is an interesting intersection of aesthetics and economics.
In the past, it was a sign of wealth and privilege to carry as small a handbag as possible (and no shopping bags). It meant you you could afford lots of help to schlepp and tote for you, and to keep the car waiting at the curb to take you from one place to the next. Conversely, a large handbag was a sign of less economic fortune: you had to carry everything around yourself for lack of servants, you likely had to work and so did not have the luxury of time to go home and change, and had to drag everything along with you.
Now, though, I think "bigger means better" just because of $$ signs: design houses can simply charge more for larger goods, on the basis that they take more work and material to produce. Material, yes, but work? Probably not. I think it takes a lot more effort to make something small really well vs. something large.
Cheers!
Posted by: Gabriel | November 22, 2007 at 11:57 PM
i don't think the size of the bag really matters. Sometimes girls are into big bags when the time calls for it and sometimes girls are into small bags. Last season it was big bags, but who knows what will come next, right?
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Posted by: all.things.spiffy | December 03, 2007 at 05:22 AM
nice post!
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Posted by: Kartik | January 24, 2008 at 10:30 PM
That looks like me & my friend, talking about guys while 'hiding' behind our huge bags. Minus the sunglasses, of course. It has become a ritual of sorts, to see who has brought the bigger bag today. Of course, we know what each other has in her closet, so it's really fun trying to guess what she's going to bring.
Posted by: Bag Nut | March 04, 2008 at 07:22 AM
Possibly there is a practical reason to make handbags so enormous (capacity to bring more things different places) but I wonder if the real reason is for handbag manufacturers to make more of a profit simply from the larger size of these handbags?
The cartoon is funny, though.
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Posted by: Anuschka Handbags | April 10, 2008 at 08:39 AM
Any size as long as it is beautiful, however the most practical for me is a big bag, and good compartments, otherwise I embarrass myself by packing out everything.
Women and their handbags what can you say?
Posted by: vivbag | May 09, 2008 at 08:12 AM
ha! So cute . . . my friends always joke that I could move into my huge Sissi Rossi hobo. 'Tis true!
Posted by: Couture Carrie | June 16, 2008 at 11:23 AM
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Posted by: admin | July 25, 2008 at 06:14 PM
Ha-ha! I have a huge bag, so I feel like the joke is on me. Funny.
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