Jan 19, 2022 | Purse Books
“Pain in The Purse: The Tax That Changed Hand-bag History” is a micro-history that explores the"forgotten" 20 percent US federal excise "luxury"tax placed on handbags in 1944. It was reduced to10 percent in 1954 and finally repealed in 1965, buttwenty years of FET had...
Jul 27, 2020 | Purse Books
Book Review The Pocket - A Hidden History of Women’s Lives by Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux have written the first comprehensive examination of pockets, a costume accessory worn exclusively by women. This is a scholarly work...
Jul 6, 2016 | Purse Books
Book by Janice Berkson Not yet reviewed Available for purchase from: Amazon, On sale for $55.00 Celebrate the fabulous fashions of the 1950s and 1960s with a book devoted to the glory of the Lucite handbag. "Carry Me" by Janice Berkson is packed with 160 pictures of...
Aug 17, 2015 | Purse Books
Book by Daniel Lees Review by Jennifer Whitehair Available for purchase from: Amazon, On sale for $40.59 In the antique and collectibles market the accepted age at which an item moves from vintage to antique is 100 years old. So it comes as no surprise that leather...
Jun 13, 2015 | Purse Books
Book by Sigrid Ivo Review by Virginia Brohard Available for purchase from: Amazon Is there something for everyone? Just when you think you’ve “seen it all” and are pretty savvy navigating the world of the antique purse, Sigrid Ivo appears with more eye candy and...
Mar 11, 2015 | Purse Books
Book by Sabina Schürenberg Review by Paula H. Available for purchase from: Shaker Media In the history of textiles and especially costume, there are few books that qualify as scholarly and groundbreaking. Sabina Schürenberg's book, Perle für Perle, is one such book....
