Help Finding a Good Quality Everyday Women's Hand Bag

Hi all,

It's my mother's birthday soon and during one of my trips overseas a few months ago, she asked me to look out for a nice hand bag for her. I didn't end up finding anything. To give you an idea what my mother is like, I don't recognise the brand of her current hand bag, but it is red and made of leather, and I think the quality is quite good. I don't think the brand is a luxury brand, otherwise I would recognise it. And besides, she has a few luxury branded bags, but she doesn't use them, because she fears the bag might attract unwanted attention for everyday use. She keeps quite a lot of money in her handbag because she doesn't trust bank cards. Everything she needs is in her handbag. When I was a child, I used to marvel at how she seemed to have everything in that bag.

Is there like a brand renowned for quality and long lasting for hand bags? Like Samsonite of the handbags world?

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  • /gif womens handbag

  • +2

    My wife is the original bag hoarder
    The most durable bags in her "Collection"?
    Coach and Fossil

    But she also has a few hand made "designer" bags. By that I mean she gave an actual designer clothes that belonged to her mother and father and they made a quality one off bag. Google Suzanne Bag.

  • What's the budget?

  • +2

    The missus has a collection of high end designer handbags she'll take on a night out, but the one bag she uses all the time as a rough daily wearer is a little leather backpack from Witchery. She's had it for over a year now and it still looks great.

    Mum and sister in law use Coach handbags, look great high quality and durable without attracting the attention that an LV / Prada / Gucci handbag might. You can get them cheaper (not cheaply) at factory outlets too.

    Not personally a fan of Oroton, I used to get their wallets and belts and they'd fall apart on me after a couple of years. I thought that was normal for wallets until missus gave me a unisex LV wallet as a hand me down - the thing was 5 years old when she gave it to me, I've used it for 3 years and the condition has hardly changed at all.

    • +1

      Yes. I forgot to say - Wife gets almost all her bags at outlets - the most recent was a red leather Coach tote that cost her $105USD at the Premium Outlet in Carlsbad $775 here. Hard to object when she shops that well

  • +1

    Kate Hill is not bad for something cheaper. Used my cross body bag for 5 years now, pretty much everyday, only recently the decorative "pad lock" fell out, still looks great.

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