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Interesting Handbag Reading
My Lonely Internet Handbag Search.......
While developing my tapestry handbag business, Cami's Collection, I have received a self taught speed course on search engines, rankings, and developing strategies for people to find my online handbag site. Through this adventure, the importance of search terms keeps coming back to me. Handbags are a big business on the Internet and I was searching for a way to differentiate my business from the rest. This lead me to thinking about all the different words for handbag, where these words originated, and what segments of population use the different terms. One lonely night, after the kids were asleep, I began my Internet search for handbags and I found some interesting facts which drew me into one of my favorite pastimes...reminiscing about my past.... I grew up in a small town in Michigan. My mother and all the grown-ups I knew used the word purse when referring to their handbag.....I remember phrases like Cami, grab my purse, or the even more used CAMI, GET OUT OF MY PURSE! My first real handbag was a clutch. I picked it out after carefully considering the older girls at the school I so wanted to be like. Kay and Dawn had perfect hair, the most fashionable clothes, and always had the cutest clutches carefully tucked under their arms. My clutch was a lovely cream color almos leather handbag that I purchased from a discount earring store at the mall when I was 12 years old. I loved that handbag. I filled it with notes from friends and lots of tissues...because I had nothing else to put in it, as my mother would't let me wear makeup like Kay and Dawn's moms did. For the ONE glorious week I had it, carefully tucked under MY arm...Until one day, leaving it at school because I forgot that I carried a handbag... By the time I began my college years I had given up on handbags altogether. I needed more space and in the mid 1980s nothing seemed as versatile as a backpack which was especially safe for my mode of transportation....the mountain bike! After college I got married and purchased my first official designer purse. A beautiful brown Coach. This was an amazing purse that I was careful to hang on to. I believe I spent just under $100, which was not chump change. I frequently took it to the Coach Store where they would put a special cream on it to make it look like new. This bag was put into an early retirement when I had my first son. My handbag was changed to a diaper bag. Finally, for the first time in my life, I had too much to carry! The day arrived when my boys could carry their own stuff and I could get my own handbag back. About this time we moved down to North Carolina. We loved the new adventure our family was on...the weather, the access to mountains and ocean, and mostly the people. I made friends quickly because the women around me were so warm and welcoming. As I think back, there were different words they used that occasionally made me pause and think the first time I heard them. One such word was pocketbook. My neighbor said, "Don't forget your pocketbook." I quiickly realized that she was referring to my handbag, which was hanging from the back of a chair at a local resteraunt. I noticed many of the women in my new town used this word just as I used handbag or purse.
This brings me to my back to my lonely night on the computer and my little (but growing) tapestry handbag/purse/pocketbook business. When people search on the internet for these all important devices for carrying essential and non essential items called purses/handbags/pocketbooks what term do they Google or Yahoo!, and how does this make a difference to my business. I began to search for the origins of these words. This is what I discovered, United Kingdom English for the American Novice explained the term purse in this way. A purse is a noun defined in America as a pocketbook. This English reference explained that a purse is something a lady puts her money in and then puts the PURSE into her handbag. This means that in the United Kingdom the terms are not interchangeable. Answers.com defined purse as a verb meaning to contract or gather into wrinkles or folds. I thought back to my childhood days watching Little House on the Prairie when Ma Ingals would carry that little drawstring purse into Olsen's Mercantile. It went on to explain the origin of the word coming from the Latin word Bursa meaning sac or saclike body cavity containing fluid located between the tendon and bone.....well, enough anatomy, back to the important stuff! Wordwizzard.com stated that the word purse was used as the word for bag dating back to 1350 and used through the 1800s. In the mid 1600s the word purse was also used as a term for prize, which still is used now in many sporting events winning the purse (and they don't mean Louis Vuitton.) It wasn't until 1960 that the term pocketbook became a common term for handbag. As I searched, I couldn't find the origination of the all important term handbag....I have come to the conclusion that it is what it is...a bag you hold in your hand. Designers come up with great ideas in handbag fashion, but the handbag can only hold as much personality as the person holding it |
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