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What do you look for when selecting your handbag? Is a fashionable handbag more important today than a practical one? Shilpa D. replied. Hi. I this article is very well written but something is still missing. you have not mentioned what material the handbag should be made of. Which is the best material for handbag for our climate? Some people also say to wash your handbag sometimes. Is this true? Vinod replied. I am planning to buy a handbag for my wife for our anniversary but I had no idea how to go about it. After reading this article, I have a better idea of what to buy. I feel confident enought to walk into a shope and say ' Show me your handbags' . Rajesh replied. Ideally I buy small clutch handbags for my sister and friends. Girls with long strapped handbags which they can swing at you are a hazard to your health and they are likely to snag it somewhere anyway. Sandhya replied. The primary purpose of a handbag is so that you can carry your daily items in it. In such a scenario, only you can decide which bag is going to suit your needs. I don' t like decorative items on bags. My friend once got hit by metal tassels from someone else' s bag. Nandini replied. Style plays a big role in choosing a bag. Most of my friends tend to look at what all the models are using in the magazines or on Page 3 of the newspaper and buy their bags accordingly. They do not really care about whether the bag is practical or if it suits them. It is all in the name of fashion. Archana replied. I enjoyed reading this article. It was very well written and brought out a lot of valid points. Whenever most of us think of buying handbags, we go in any of these two directions Either we pick something that merely looks good or we go for something that can carry a lot of things.