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Does anyone remember mini-backpacks? Remember when they weren’t just the tote of choice for middle-aged women and Kohl’s frequent customers? Remember when mini backpacks were actually in?

Lately I’ve been taking some time to analyze women’s choice of bagware on the subway. This is in part for the day-to-day scientific research necessary to inspire this blog, and in part because I lost my earbuds and am waiting for new ones to arrive in the mail. (It’s for that reason that my scientific study of Female Purse Selection in New York City will end on Apple Earbud Estimated Arrival Date Nov. 10).

It seems a purse can say a lot about you - how much you carry, how important you are, how wealthy, how stylish, how woefully unfashionable and doomed to eternal celibacy, etc. And while styles still emerge from time to time, as of late there has been no massive-scale hot item in the purse arena. Not really since the mini backpack. Read More ›