Not much has changed in the handbag world,
then. Over the centuries handbags have gone through many adaptations and fashions, but the word handbag was only coined in
the 1900s. The start of the twentieth century also heralded the type of handbag we would recognise today - with bags getting
increasingly smaller and the introduction of handbag fasteners, inner compartments and locks. But that is enough history:
clearly the most important time period in terms of handbags was the fifties, which saw the rise of the ultimate handbag
designer houses; including Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Hermes.
