Everyone tends to have a signature something - a lot of people talk about signature scents, for example. It's something seen as characterizing or defining your presence. According to my friends, my signature is that I really have a thing for orange bags, enough so that one of my friends once thought a tall Asian guy was me - and didn't realize his mistake until he was about to hug the guy. Unfortunately, one of my orange purses has died (though maybe I can fix that by using weird methods to turn it into a cross body? The attached handles kind of broke off...) and my normal bag is slowly having the covering on the strap wear off, and therefore, I'm looking for a new purse, in case the "let me play Frankenstein with my purse" thing doesn't pay off.
So what do you look for in a purse? I know what I look for (besides it being orange): I want it to be gigantic and hold all my books so that I don't have to carry my highschool backpack (I know, I could get a cute new one, but I really just like having crossbody bags rather than things that I have to hold onto or that go on my back; big isn't a dealbreaker, it's just something that would be a thing in an ideal world), under $50 because I'm a poor college student with student loans who's trying to build a professional wardrobe (even if I am considering spending like $70 on a Nicholas Cage morphsuit...but we all have our priorities, and mine may be weirder than other people's), and then I just hope that it will stand up to the constant abuse of incessantly changing weather and daily use, because I do not have the time to switch things between bags.
So, some purses I'd like...whether or not I can afford them:
So this isn't in orange, it's sold out, and it's WAY too expensive. But I really wish it was in orange and that I could afford it, so it totally counts, right?
Actually affordable: absolutely! Also, cool gold accents. I appreciate this a lot.
Look, it's a large-ish bag! It's unfortunately expensive, though, but it looks
so good.
It's affordable, it's cute, and I do like it.
So cute. And so sold out. Not that it would've fit half the stuff I carry around, but y'know...
Oh, and then there's this DIY... Maybe I'll eventually have time to make this? (And figure out how to turn it into a crossbody...)
I'll probably hold off on actually
buying a new purse till I have the opportunity to create the Frankenpurse, but it's always fun to go looking and see what's available. There's a depressing lack of available and affordable orange bags, but at least there are some!
Do you have any off-kilter signatures?
