Handbags have always been my weakness. As a child, I was nicknamed ‘the bag lady’ by my family, thanks to my insistence on going everywhere with several bags of all shapes and sizes draped about my person.
You can always justify a bag because they’re ‘useful’, aren’t they?Well, that was until a year ago, when they were rendered utterly useless – in a practical sense, anyway.
Going for a walk or to the supermarket requires a functional crossbody, at most.I know plenty of women who have kept their handbag packed and by their side as a symbol of their defiant spirit, as if nothing in the world can be in that much turmoil if your purse, tissues and lip balm (and mask and hand sanitiser) are all carefully stowed in one place.
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