handbags – worth their weight in painkillers
How heavy is too heavy when it comes to your handbag? I carry the weight of a small child with me most of the time. It starts innocently enough with the basics of wallet and keys. But living in London means an umbrella on standby, something to read, something to drink, something to keep you warm, something to nibble on. I have become something of an urban warrior equipped for survival at all times. I even carry bags within bags – I have a condensed medical cabinet on my person most of the time, by which I mean plasters in case of sudden heel blisters, headache tablets etc. I travelled to Australia last year and it took me a while to register that this is a country with shops, just like our own, and I didn’t have to take every single thing I may need for every eventuality.
So I’m wondering whether the size of our bag represents the scale of our anguish at being unprepared in life. It’s a crippling fact that womens’ handbags seem to be getting heavier and heavier, with the average woman’s bag now weighing in at 5.2lb. The weighty padlock feature on the Chloe Paddington sent droves of women to the osteopath. I coveted the Burberry Knight line, but those metal studs made the bag alone wear a ton, and that’s before I put my life in it. My girlfriend Z has given up the fight with hers and stuck it on top of the cupboard. If it fell on her she’d be concussed. I watch innocent people try and move my handbag and give up. Soon, the most desirable bag will be like a Sword in the Stone scenario, and only the richest and strongest among us will get to carry it. And in the meantime I’m working out how to downsize to that Jimmy Choo Kase Oval Clutch I’ve got my eye on: purely for orthopaedic reasons of course.
Poor Agy, exhausted from lugging that Burberry Knight around all day I bet…
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