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[Music] thank you [Music] let’s talk about the history of the purse but first we need some coffee humans have been carrying small bags to hold important items and money close to their bodies since well basically we stopped running around naked and started making things Betsy was found with a small bag Romans had the bulla and bags were used as status symbols in Han and Tong Dynasty China Vikings carried both small purses on drawstrings and more sophisticated bags with Metal Frames regardless of their sex or gender in the Burke of Sweden archaeological dig they found 52 bags in 47 Graves men and women in medieval and Renaissance europes carried small purses and larger bags depending on their needs basically humans have carried purses and bags for eternity regardless of their gender but starting in the 18th century something weird happened when the once genderless bag became a symbol of the feminine forever changing how we View and interact with Handbags and it’s this 200 year time period that we need to talk about today hi Toby oh hi good good news so now that we’ve covered the Eternal history that is the handbag or purse we needed to cover terminology real fast I will be trying to use the term handbag because I feel like it is the most distinctive when it comes to what we are actually talking about a purse is actually a smaller article that was usually knit or spring work and it usually looked like um that do with that what you will this variation is called a miser purse it had an opening in the middle and two rings on it so you could keep coins and other little things safely on either side and it would fit inside your pocket whether you were male or female as for pocketbook this is also very self-explanatory it is a wallet it had hard sides like a book and it fit in your pocket this is where you keep notes and paper currency and Small Bits of Paper or what have you men and women also both carried these for the past several hundred years and if you were at least my grandma who was born in the 1920s it was also your wallet in the 2000 her purse too she kind of used it interchangeably ready [Music] so the ridicule is giv
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