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Bags are hot. From designer bags to replica handbags or knockoff handbag, handbags dominate fashion. If you consider today’s leading fashion companies, “what hits you like a brick is that it’s bags, not clothes, that are the key to their success.” Observes Mimi Spencer of Vogue. As clothing fashion is becoming increasingly minimal, accessories like handbags have taken on greater importance.

There are different categories of replica handbags . Women tend to carry so much in their replica handbag . Practical bags tend to accommodate all a woman wants to carry with her. As Carrie Donovan says, “For many women the tote bag is an office away from the desk, a portable dressing table, a locker room lunch-pail, library, shopping cart, travel bag, or an amalgam of all these.” This type of handbags fit in to the category of practical bags. Designers such as Prada, Bally, Moschino are among many that have designed practical or tote handbags.

Then we have precious little evening bags that have just enough room for keys, a lipstick and money. Glamorous evening bags are crafted of precious material and distinctive details. They hold only what is essential for an evening on the town. Fashion designers such as Swarovski, Fiore,chanel purses ,Dolce & Gabbana have designed unique evening designer handbags. Precious bags are used more and more during the day, rather than just for evenings, to individualize the modern fashion.

Status handbags are objects to which a set of unspoken but powerful associations is attached, such as Benz automobile or the Hermes bag. Hermes, Luis Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci and Christian Dior are among many designers that make these types of replica bags.

Luxury handbags signify more than extravagant and expensive. They represent indulgence beyond what is necessary for a reasonable standard of life. “There is obviously considerable overlap between the status bag and the luxury bag, says Laura Bortolami, since almost all status bags are made of luxurious materials that are artfully handcrafted.But whereas the significance of the status bag centers on its name or logo, a luxury bag is usually valued because of what it is made of , for its intrinsic value.”

Utility bags are designed to hug the body as an extension of clothing. Backpacks, waist packs, belt bags, hip bags, vest bags, body pouches and arm packs are among utility bags. Utility style bags can be found among the collection of famous designers such as Dolce Gabbana, Prada,DKNY and Georgio Armani.

Here is a brief history of how handbags have evolved throughout the years:

Up until the 18th century, women kept their accessories hanging on chatelaines from the waist of their skirts or hidden in pockets underneath their skirts.

The 19th century brought the expensive, pretty and intricate handbags – those handstitched with tiny beads and often set on silver clasps and chains.

Celluloid bags came into fashion in the 1920s featuring daring detail like mother or pearl, enamel and lipstick holders, compacts and mirrors that were discreetly designed to go inside.

1930s/1940s saw clutch handbags developed.

Between 1940s and 1950s handbags became quite innovative and extravagant made of all types of materials and crafted of frivolous extras all over the outside of the bag.

The 1950s Princess Grace Kelly appeared on the cover of Life with Hermes bag “petit sac haut a courroies” which meant little bag with straps. She loved Hermes handbags so much that she turned them into a status symbol. Consequently, the classic black square purse took on the name “Kelly” bag. A vintage Hermes bag can sell at auction for about $10,000.

1960s women saw genuine reptile and silk handbags.This era designers such as Givenchy, Chanel, and Pucci frequently mark period fashions.

Vivid color and bold forms were the innovation brought to the handbags in the 70s.