by Dawne Richards | Oct 3, 2023 | Learn
Fashions change, that’s for sure. And there’s plenty of odd fashion history to keep us fashion and/or history buffs engaged for a long time! (Well, we might find it odd today, but what will people 100 years from now think of our sense of style? Only time will...
by Dawne Richards | Aug 9, 2023 | Blog, Learn
We’ve all been there. “Ooh! What a beautiful bag!” you think. And it probably is. But then you get it home, and start transferring the stuff from your old bag to the new one (something that I find to be a particularly festive activity). But then, reality sets in. The...
by Dawne Richards | Feb 17, 2023 | Blog
I have a confession to make. Actually, the confession is in the headline, kind of (and it’s not just about our Neoprene tote). First of all, the world has a LOT of handbags. And I’ve been finding – and loving! – them everywhere for decades. From thrift shops to...
by Dawne Richards | Feb 3, 2023 | Blog, Learn
Handbags in one form or another go very, very far back in history. According to Insider, “handbag images date back at least 11,000 years, which means they’re older than Stonehenge. Imagine that! Did you know? According to the Women’s Museum of California, before...
by Dawne Richards | Sep 12, 2022 | Blog, Learn
OK, so it didn’t actually take three years to make our Watercolors resort totes. We did, however, spend three years researching, testing, working with vendors, finding new vendors, exploring materials, evaluating what feels like a million different handbags…that last...