Evening Bags 101

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Evening Bags 101

Traditionally women have worn evening bags to dressy events. They are perfect for cocktail parties, dances, weddings, formal, or black tie occasions. An evening bag is also appropriate when you go to a nice restaurant for dinner, the theatre, symphony, ballet and opera. However they are just as chic with a pair of jeans.

Evening bags add an element of style to whatever you are wearing! They should be smaller in size than your daytime bags. Usually evening bags are fancy. They can be made from gilded leather, metals, semi-precious jewels or luxurious fabrics like silk, satin, velvet, etc. They can be beaded, studded with crystals, sequins, embroidered or made in needlepoint with fabulous ornamental clasps and metal chains.

If you want one evening bag to go with everything choose gold, gold material/fabric, silver, or silver material/fabric.  The perfect size evening bag will hold what you need to carry with you. Carry you lip color and makeup ( as little as possible), a mini wallet for ID, cards and cash, a travel fragrance, your cell phone, a mini portable cell phone charger and some business cards.

Wear an over-the-top fancy evening bag with simple style dresses or outfits. A simple style evening bag in a luxurious fabric with an ornamental clasp adds elegance to a fancy dress or outfit. Popular evening bag styles are clutches, envelopes and pouches.

Judith Lieber Bag

Many big-name designers have evening bag lines but Judith Lieber evening bags are famous for their animal shapes, flowers, and box bags.  The bags are made with rare materials and hand-finished elegance. “The Leiber Collection is free and open to the public from Memorial Day Weekend through Labor Day on Saturdays, Sundays, and Wednesdays from 1 – 4 pm. The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs, New York.

Another elegant line of evening bags, Preciously Paris, are unique or limited editions; modern and sophisticated evening bags. Each bag combines the skills of craftspeople such as leather workers, metal workers embossers and/or embroiderers.

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