My Idea of the Perfect Handbag

I have searched high and low and have yet to find the perfect handbag. When I do go shopping for a handbag, I have certain criteria I'm looking for, and I talk to other women to see what they are looking for, and the vast majority of those my age range (40 and over) are all looking for the same things. If I was talented enough to do so, I would create my own line of handbags. But I'm not gifted in that area ... so I'm giving some freebie advice to all handbag designers ... a lot of women will buy a purse like this if you will just design it! Here are the requirements.

It must pass the drop test. When my handbag is full of goodies and I drop it onto the ground, it must say upright and not tip over and spill out all of the contents.

It must have at least two, preferably three, distinct sections inside and at least one of the sections must be zippered. These bucket bags are nothing but a disaster waiting to happen because you can't find anything when you need it without digging for hours or dumping everything out. They also need to be sturdy so my MP3 player, sunglasses, palm pilot don't get smushed by other things in my bag.

The inside sections need to be big enough to comfortably hold a full size wallet, not just a coin purse. So use a wallet or dayplanner when thinking about the size of these areas.

The material used to divide the sections must be sturdy enough that when something is taken out of one section, everything else in the other section doesn't cave in and make it difficult to get whatever you took out back in. I get so mad when I take out my wallet to pay for something and then go to put it back in my purse only to find that everything is smushed into the middle where the other contents caved in when I removed my wallet.

There must be at least one small zippered pocket inside the sectioned areas, and at least one small open pocket. These pockets are needed to house the various lip glosses, gum, breath mints, loose coins, etc that women tend to carry around.