The ‘Tiser’s Cathrine Toth tackles that feature columnist favorite: Her purse.
I went with a mid-size handbag big enough to fit a notebook, planner, digital camera, iPod, oversized wallet, bottle of Advil, three pens, two lipsticks and concealer. But not in an obvious way.
Ms. Toth’s got an iPod, which offers her carte blanche in our book. More on that later in the week.
While we couldn’t find anything on what the contents of a woman’s handbag says about her we did find this studious take on what the handbag represents to the modern woman.
Women’s sexual and social independence is thus in a certain sense linked in their minds with their independence from their purses, from the respectable world of “home,” and from the three weird sisters, the survivalist, the curator, and the homemaker, who, like Macbeth’s witches, continue to use the purse as a cauldron of spinsterly reservations, taboos, pruderies, and fears.
Indeed.
The ‘Tiser: Going to heck in a handbag
Harper’s Magazine: Plumbing the Purse
Flickr: What’s In My Bag
