subject: Does Your Handbag Reflect Your Personality? [print this page] Does your handbag reflect your personality? Classic, romantic, elegant, or dramatic?
To have your own fashion style that express your mind and reflect your personality, and really show the way you feel. It is creative and admirable. But to go so far having your lasting impact style that affect women all over the world! It is really outstanding and extraordinary.
Philadelphia-born Grace Kelly -- so blonde, so patrician -- had been wed less than a year to Prince Rainier of Monaco when she deftly obscured her royal pregnancy with a structured, crocodile Hermes purse on a 1956 Life magazine cover. Created in 1892 as a large saddle carrier -- the French fashion house started out as a saddle maker -- the bag was downsized for daywear in the 1930s. But after its moment in Life, it was dedicated to Her Serene Highness, and, as legends often do, lives on after her.
The Kelly bag is so named after the actress Grace Kelly
One of the most sought-after purses of recent decades has to be the Herms Kelly bag, a timeless handbag design, right up there with its sibling, the Herms Birkin.
Kelly bags come in 5 different sizes and enormous colors. They are usually made from crocodile, alligator, ostrich-skin or plain leather. And they are identifiable by their distinctive metal-tipped clasp, which can be closed with a tiny padlock. Swathed in leather, the clasp's hidden key often dangles from the handle. And of course the famous Herms Paris logo
The inside of a Kelly bag is as beautifully and as painstakingly made as the outside,, an honored tenet of Herms, according to Pendersen. The bags seams are smoothed, dyed and waxed.
It takes a single craftsman around 18 hours to produce one of these beauties.
, Kelly bag always delivers unique elegant touch. That is why Kelly bag becomes top choice for formal occasions. It is also regarded by many as the queen of bags.
Although other Hollywood stars carried this iconic bag, (such as Ingrid Bergman and Marlene Dietrich) none had the same impact as Grace Kelly.
The Kelly bag now enjoys a cult status and is a modern day movie star in its own right, featuring in recent TV and Hollywood movies such as Sex and the City and Le Divorce. In "Le Divorce," a red crocodile Kelly was a sure sign that young Isabel was having an affair with someone rich enough to buy her this five-figure confection...
