Reticules, Bags, or Purses History Notes Book 3
By Suzi Love
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What was fashionable for purses in past centuries? Call them what you like: purses, bags, handbags, reticules, ridicules, clutches,
or pocket replacements. They all did the same job and they changed greatly with the prevailing fashions of time. Enjoy lots of historical and edited images of purses and their changes in styles and colors from fashion plates and extant articles.
Suzi Love
I now live in a sunny part of Australia after spending many years in developing countries in the South Pacific. My greatest loves are traveling, anywhere and everywhere, meeting crazy characters, and visiting the Australian outback.I adore history, especially the many-layered society of the late Regency to early Victorian eras. In and around London, my titled heroes and heroines may live a privileged and gay life but I also love digging deeper into the grittier and seamier levels of British life and write about the heroes and heroines who challenge traditional manners, morals, and occupations, either through necessity or desire.Tag Line- Making history fun, one year at a time
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Reticules, Bags, or Purses History Notes Book 3 - Suzi Love
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FROM THE BEGINNING
Because of the vast size of many castles and households, it wasn't easy to return to bedchambers, so the bits and pieces needed were carried on the person. Purses were a common dress accessory and often very ornate. In the days before regular bathing, body odors were disguised by 'sweet bags' containing perfumed powder or dried herbs.
Purses held mirrors, sewing equipment, and gifts or donations of money could be 'wrapped' in a purse. Pouches, bags, and purses were used regularly from the 14th century onwards for carrying money for gambling, sewing necessities, and women's daily requirements.
14th Century Man's Purse. Stitched and embossed leather. via Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA. collections.lacma.org14th Century Man's Purse. Stitched and embossed leather. via Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA.
Wealthy Persians pinned small money pouches to their girdles so it was easy to reach in, retrieve a few coins, and toss them to the street beggars. Persian rulers would give their wives riches from land they captured and the wife would put the money into a pinned pouch. This is where the term ‘pin-money’ came from.
In the Middle Ages, purses were hung from chains or jeweled cord belts and as people became more religious, rosaries were carried in these purses. Later, men carried a purse, often of velvet and richly decorated with pearls and jewels, but a carried purse was never as convenient as dangling a pouch from the waist, or from the wrist as later reticules were.
Purses of various shapes and sizes had several names in medieval times e.g. bourse or poche à compartement. In the fifteenth century, purses with metal clasps and rear loops which could be attached directly to the belt took over from pouches with drawstrings. Clasps gave better security for money and valuables when walking crowed city streets.
By the beginning of the 17th century, pockets were sewn into men’s breeches to carry necessities and women followed this by sewing pockets into either wide skirts or petticoats.
1170-1190 ca. Purse, France. Embroidered with silk threads on red linen fabric. A luxurious item to hang from a belt. Currently in Musée Alfred-Bonno in Chelles1170-1190 ca. Purse, France. Embroidered with silk threads on red linen fabric. A luxurious item to hang from a belt. Currently in Musée Alfred-Bonno in Chelles.
1600-1630 ca. Purse, English. Mother-of-pearl, lined with silk, silver-gilt braid, silk and silver threads. In17th century, decorative purses were rarely used to carry money as wealthy people engaged in few commercial exchanges requiring cash. Used as sweet bags, or gift wrapping, contained mirrors for grooming, or sewing kits, holding needles, thread and tiny scissors. collections.vam.ac.uk1600-1630 ca. Purse, English. Mother-of-pearl, lined with silk, silver-gilt braid, silk and silver threads. In the 17th century, decorative purses were rarely used to carry money