How much would you pay for a handbag?

I bought a sling style cross body bag for about £40 for travelling with as it has a lot of useful pockets for stuff but I mostly make my own simple bags with zips and pockets for ordinary daily use. Tote bags and cross body styles mainly.

I’m afraid (being shallow?), I do notice other people’s bags and often think they say something about the owner - a bit like shiny shoes used to.

I’ve never cared about what others choose to wear or carry as judging people by such superficial nonsense is rather childish and reminds me of the school bullies trying to dictate the length of your school skirts. No wonder so many women end up with controlling partners if they still choose men based on whether their shoes are shiny. 😂

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Witzend that 3 Guineas woukd be £ 440 now, so yes it was a very extravagant. Gift. Just as well that your mum loved it.

😱! I’m sure he’d never have paid that much, even when feeling generous!
I just checked with Google and according to that it’d be more like around £110. Still extravagant, but at least it did last her for many years. My mother was always one for buying ‘few but good’ as far as possible, and taking care of things.

She had a bit of a ‘thing’ about ‘cheap looking’ colours, too - i.e. something fairly inexpensive could look ‘good’ in one colour, but cheap and nasty in another.

My thoughts on this is if you spend £100s on a handbag surely the rest of your outfit needs to be of equal value otherwise it will spoil the " look" saying that I used to love looking at them and have bought designer fakes on holiday in Turkey before.

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I don’t possess a handbag, don’t see the need.

So how do you carry the necessities you might need?

I don’t possess a handbag, don’t see the need.

I have recently replaced my Bridge brown handbag with a new identical one. The first one cost about £180 and has lasted 16 years used every day. The identical one I got off the Internet reduced at £250. I love the simple design.

I just got a gorgeous Radley leather bag for £5 on Vinted. It’s exactly what I wanted, beautifully pre-loved and with a couple of teeny biro marks on the lining, just as all my bags have had eventually. I’d been looking in charity shops for months for a bag to replace my ancient one which finally fell apart, and I’m delighted.

I have two ‘good’ handbags, both gifts, as I would spend as little as possible on a handbag.
On TikTok there are films by a shop in London called Love Luxury, where they buy and sell bags like Hermés Kelly bags for £50,000! Then there’s this one…..

I still have a number of nice leather bags from when I was working, nothing ‘named’. I use a fairly small crossbody bag now, it suits me and my needs.

I don't really use them. I have a canvas troop london organiser bag that I occasionally use and have had for years. And a small leather cross body bag I sometimes use under a coat for keys and phone eg.

If it was for a special occasion, like a wedding, to match an oufit - maybe £75 max.

Regarding my previous reply about The Cat Gallery in York!

I absolutely love this bag and purse!

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I wouldn’t recognise any of the bags mentioned except like MissA, radley, though would still need to see the dangling dog attached to the handles.

My SIL is into Louis Vuitton handbags. She buys them because she likes them and, I guess, for the ‘social status’ attached to these handbags, especially the limited - edition ones.

I have a sister is who is very wealthy, definitely when compared to SIL. She and her husband own a number of high end properties. She is the complete opposite, no designer handbags or labels and she does not even wear any jewellery.

I have a small Fendi bag and a larger Dune bag which my daughter gave me as a Christmas present.

I have a few Prada and a few Mulberry bags and one Stella McCartney. They are my weakness, I use them all regularly and interchange them.

Bought a Radley handbag for £3 from a charity shop a few months ago. Have just bought a brand new Osprey cross body bag from Vinted for £18. Always looking out for a bargain. 😄

Witzend that 3 Guineas woukd be £ 440 now, so yes it was a very extravagant. Gift. Just as well that your mum loved it.

Funnily enough I still remember, when still not more than about 8, going with my father when he was buying a Christmas present bag for my mother. It was in the 50s, in one of those dept. stores where there was a counter, and the assistant would show you the things.

The first bag (I still remember!) was 32/6d, but my father immediately said ‘No thanks, it looks ‘granny-ish’, and it did! - so I thought ‘phew’ - I knew my mother wouldn’t like it.

The one he bought was beautiful, in black calf, lined with suede. But it cost 3 guineas, very extravagant when they were almost permanently skint. But she loved it, and used it for ages.

My everyday winter cross body bag is from Osprey too. Snap!

Years ago, I bought several Mulberry bags, which I still have, but don’t use now. Classic styles which won’t ever date so my Dds will have them eventually. Now I use a cross body bag for everyday from Osprey.

Vhanging bags nearly always results in me losing my purse, or something.

Do you use them all regularly harrigran? I find changing bags a total pain, so I pretty much use the same one every day in winter and a different one in summer. Good quality and smart but not designer bags like yours.

I have about thirty handbags, all quite expensive especially my Mulberry ones which were more than £1,000 each.

I bought three bags from Zaynthos about 10 years ago. Obviously looky likey ones 2 LV and a Mulberry one.

One of the LV ones looked so much like the real thing I was nervous to use it when I was aware people were watching me. The actual cost was about £1k plus. It's now all fallen apart.

I like my bags to be quite clean as they fall on floors , sit on seats etc so I use cross body healthy back bags in larger baglett size so still quite small . I put in minimal stuff and very handy but over the weeks they get too stuffed full so then empty , put in the wash and get out one of the other 3 all bought on the sale . One friend describes my light green one as an advocado . I recently bought a greatly reduced cross body bag in leather from Fat Face for best when I bought one for a daughter in law . Got two Cath Kitson back packs and that’s what I use! It’s enough for me . 💼