By Karla Peterson
San Diego Union-Tribune
June 9, 2017
Hey ladies, raise your hand if you have a love-hate relationship with your purse. Unless your arm is too sore from carrying your purse. In which case, wave your foot.
Whether you love it because it’s pretty and matches your shoes, or you loathe it because it is a “Hoarders” episode with handles, there is no escaping the strange, symbiotic relationship women have with their handbags. Without us, they are merely extras on the stage of life. Attractive, but not necessary. Without them, we are up a creek without a paddle, lipstick or Altoids.
The Women’s Museum of California in Liberty Station, had an exhibit dedicated to handbags. With its cases full of beaded beauties, fringed finds and woven wonders, “One Hundred Years of One Hundred Handbags” was a tribute to these necessary accessories and to the women who carried them.
Read the full story and watch a video of the exhibit at the San Diego Union-Tribune.