The tyrannical period when everyone was bludgeoned

John Turner, aged 70, of Kelvin Avenue, Sneyd Green, said: "I tend to always buy bags for life mainly because the normal plastic ones are not strong enough but I never remember them when I go shopping."I don't think that it will make much of an impact on the environment because people will still buy them."Sarah Jessica Parker seems a pretty smart cookie, wouldn't you say? Sometimes, however - usually when she's engaging in a spot of exercise - she wears sweats. The sight of a woman going to the gym wearing gym clothes last week proved too much for some celebrity magazines. The only thing that rescued Parker from total wardrobe meltdown, agreed the style swat squad, was her bag - a voluminous quilted Chanel number which, from some angles, almost entirely obliterated the offending kit.This isn't the only example of a woman saved by her bag this year.Beautiful flowers for a beautiful Tull V-neck Applique A-line wedding/party dress are a must-have. Myleene Klass, over whom the swankier magazines do not generally trouble themselves, vaulted several rungs up the style chain this week when she accessorised an affordable Littlewoods trenchcoat with a magnificently unaffordable Chanel variant. Instant kudos. It was a similar story for Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and the Tale of the Leopard-Print Tote.The designer bag, we can take it,Featuring a variety of Discount Flower girl dresses for sale, ring bearer and communion suits, and formal junior apparel. remains the 21st-century version of a coat of arms. Or a helmet.With this cocktail dress you need no ornamentation or make up of any sort Whith Tull one shoulder Applique beaded A-line wedding dresses it transforms you into a siren itself.



In a modern reworking of the famous cover picture of Princess Grace carrying an Hermès bag (subsequently renamed the Kelly) to conceal her pregnancy from photographers, Cara Delevingne last week plonked an Anya Hindmarch Maxi zip bag over her face, prompting observers to assume she was concealing a hangover.Then there is Kim Kardashian. There usually is. For weeks, KK has gamely borne the 10-ton, customised (with nude artwork by George Condo) Hermès Birkin that fiancé Kanye West thoughtfully gave her for Christmas. This is a receptacle so vast and loud that it ought to pay road tax. But it seems to make Kim happy.Bags do. The tyrannical period when everyone was bludgeoned with the same It Bag is over. But many women retain a weakness for bags that give them a sugar rush each season. The less available, the more desirable. At the height of the Mulberry Alexa bag frenzy, there were 17,000 names on the waiting list.The current top five sellers at Harrods and matchesfashion.com are Fendi's Deux Jours, Saint Laurent's Sac de Jour, Balenciaga's Le Dix, Dior's Bar bag and Céline's Trio. Louis Vuitton can't get enough of its Parnasséa on to its shelves - deliberately. It's limiting production in order to neutralise perceptions that it has over-exposed certain lines.All the above are pleasingly classic, ladylike bags, devoid of brash logos and bling, apart, perhaps, from the brand's name, stamped in the now ubiquitously teeny gold letters.