Handbag hangers keep that Ferragamo handbag away from thieves and some very nasty microbes
Now that women have the Swiffer, it's time to address the next obstacle to female emancipation — the systemic discrimination that forces them to hang thousand-pounds-plus bags inelegantly from a chair back or, worse, has them languishing on the floor vulnerable to thievery, filth, scuffing, and nasty microbes.
Remedy has arrived in the newly rediscovered handbag hook. It's the new female equalizer, used by women of all ages everywhere.
The hooks have been around since the 1920s, when handbags emerged as a symbol of the emancipated women. Queen Elizabeth is said to employ an S-shaped handbag hook to hang her handbags, the contents of which remain a perplexing mystery. But only recently, in the current era of insanely fetishised "It" bags, has the logic of the hook gained traction.
"I take mine everywhere," says London society doyenne Catherine Nugent. "And if I had a penny for every time somebody told me they wanted one, it would be wonderful." Her silver handbag holder was a gift from a friend in Brazil, where girls grow up with the superstition that you'll lose all of your money if you put your Handbag on the floor. In France, better restaurants provide handbag stools, Nugent notes wistfully, a rare civility here. She likes having her bag next to her. "It beats using a separate chair which most women do."Read more
