If you’ve attended a purse party lately, you’ve likely thought about what it is you typically keep in your purse, and how much space it takes up. Most women feel scorned for carrying more than a few things around with them in their purses, especially by men (some of whom feel superior for having spacious enough pockets that they don’t need to carry purses—but wasn’t it male designers who started the trend a few centuries ago of women wearing tighter clothing, which prevents them from having large and spacious pockets like men do?) No matter. Whether you tend to carry a lot or a little, the Miche Bag allows you to organize and carry all of your purse contents. As an added bonus, Miche Bags, allow you to keep the contents of your purse in the basebag and just change the shell, a huge timesaver for those of us that love to carry around the kitchen sink.
Purses have changed considerably over the centuries, and so have their contents. In the 18th century, women had bags for every type of occasion, but typically they carried face powder, rouge, a scent bottle, and smelling salts, and sometimes love letters and bank notes. In the 1900s women carried opera glasses, fans, mirrors, and powder puffs. Women of the early to mid 20th century often carried matches and cigarettes in cigarette holders; and reading glasses, glasses for distance, and sunglasses.
Currently, purse owners vary considerably in what they tend to always have in their bags, but there are some basics: a wallet with IDs, driver’s license, credit cards, debit cards, membership cards, business cards, work badges, key cards, transit cards, checkbooks, cash, and receipts; a cell phone; key chains with keys; at least one pen; at least a minimal amount of makeup, such as lipstick or lip gloss; and lip balm. Other very common items in purses include: cameras; sunglasses; MP3 players; coin purses; loose change; notebooks; and hair accessories such as bobby pins, ties, and barrettes. Slightly less common items are: cell phone chargers, hand sanitizers, lotions, hand creams, moisturizers, PDAs, books, tissues, toothbrushes, toothpaste, dental floss, medications, mini hairbrushes, planners, gum, mints, candy, and perfume.
More items that are not atypical in purses, especially larger ones, are: calculators, stain remover pens and wipes, water bottles, band aids, sharpies, highlighters, shoes, deodorant, mirrors, mini umbrellas, snacks, cook books, tea, Splenda, baby wipes, diapers, change of clothes for a child, mini laptops, post-its, fortune-cookie fortunes, magazines, oil remover sheets, calendars, safety pins, pepper spray, throat lozenges, mini staplers, headphones, grocery lists, unpaid bills, lighters, cat toys, dog collars, DVDs to return, Blue-tooth devices, reusable shopping bags, coupon books, to-do lists, mouthwash, plastic cutlery, napkins, hand wipes, breath spray, paper, sketchbooks, and flash drives.
We commonly need much of the above when we go out. If we don’t carry these items, we sometimes borrow them from other purse owners. If you attend a Miche party, you might enjoy content comparisons with your co-attendees. So, what do you carry in YOUR Miche Bag?
