Mar 7, 2022 | News, Purse Tales, Research
The twentieth century saw the beginning of a new era when women, more independent and self-confident, especially after the end of the first World War, were finally able to succeed in many fields, even in the artistic one, regaining the many centuries they had been...
Oct 13, 2021 | News, Purse Tales, Research
IN THE SHADOW OF THE CONVENTS Since the Middle Ages, both convents and monasteries have been the only beacon of light all along those difficult centuries, with monks copying classical books again and again and nuns preserving the arts of embroidering and lacemaking....
Feb 11, 2021 | News, Purse Tales
... "I was a wife and you killed my husband, I was a mother and you deprived me of my children"... With these words, pronounced by the Queen Marie Antoinette, echoing in my mind, it was with intense emotion that I acquired and held in my hands this letter case that...
Apr 1, 2018 | Purse Tales
In the 1880s a dragon got loose in Norway. Actually it was more like hundreds of dragons got loose. You could see them peaking out under the eaves of churches, ski chalets and homes. Their sinewy forms wrapped around wooden roofs and stone arches. These sly serpents...
Oct 8, 2017 | News, Purse News, Purse Tales
By June D. Bell CostCo Connection October, 2017 MELISSA OVERDORF’S purse obsession began innocently enough, with a 1940s petit point Asprey of London handbag she inherited from her grandmother in 1999. Before long, the smitten Seattle resident was hunting down vintage...
May 6, 2017 | News, Purse News, Purse Tales, Research
By Messy Nessy Nov. 12, 2015 Well call me Penelope Pitstop! Okay don’t, but I bet you would if I picked you up in the sassiest car that ever was, the 1956 Dodge LaFemme. Between 1955 and 1956, Dodge produced the first car specifically marketed to women, which came in...
