Five Tips To Find Your Perfect Vintage Handbag

[Pamela Hill Lappin]

Vintage handbags Whether you call it a handbag, purse or pocketbook, most stylish women wouldn’t be caught without one. Designers, well aware of this fact, have built the most profitable part of their businesses around this accessory. Where would Chanel or Michael Kors be without their handbags? Each year the top price for each season’s must have “It” bag increases exponentially. Where once $500 was considered top of line, it increasingly looks like there are no upper limits. Ironically, once you buy that uber expensive handbag you saved up to buy, there will be thousands of other women carrying the same one. Plus after you have paid that fancy price you find out that many fashion designers no longer produce handbags in their home countries but send the materials to manufacturers in China to save money. As an alternative you can find designer knock offs in discount stores or on the street but instead of thousands you will be one of hundreds of thousands of women carrying same handbag. So much for personal style. So is there an antidote to having to choose between high designer prices and mass market sameness? There is and it’s a vintage handbag. Now Madge loves a good designer bag as much as the next gal and has the collection to prove it, but long ago she also discovered the virtues of vintage handbags. Of course you can go nuts on price on a vintage bag just like a new one; those vintage Birkin bags are also $20,000. But its easy to find quality vintage bags starting in the $20 – $30 price range. Vintage handbags come in all shapes, sizes and price points so how to do you find one that stands out and fits your personal style? Here’s some tips to get you started. Find a great color This fabulous red velvet Markay handbag is …

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