Archive for September, 2006
Thursday, September 28th, 2006
Free 'Purse chains' are helping to reduce handbag crime
From West Yorkshire Police
Headingley Shop Watch has called upon local residents to help ‘bag” thieves as they issue shoppers with ‘purse chains’ throughout the area after a series of thefts have been reported.
Headingley Shop Watch is a scheme set up to improve safety in the area for local residents and shoppers. The scheme brings together [...]
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Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
Handbag Designer Required
Please do not enquire to this website regarding the position. Thank you!
Posted 21st September 2006
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
'Caped Crusader' foils handbag robbery
A great story from Minneapolis USA.
About the time Teresa Skarman was wrapping up her shift bagging groceries at an Uptown grocery store, Cameron Evans was doing dishes at Galactic Pizza a few blocks away.
Evans left to deliver the pizza and Teresa began her normal walk home. As she walked, Teresa heard something…
“I heard footsteps behind [...]
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Friday, September 15th, 2006
Renting a handbag Part 2
For the first part of this article on renting a handbag, go here.
On Wednesday 13th September, The Guardian had an article regarding handbag rental:
During New York fashion week, the city’s extensive cool crowd has only one thing on its mind: how to blag its way into the shows. It’s fine if you are Sophia Coppola [...]
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Thursday, September 14th, 2006
Model Moss boosts £2.99 bag sales
The designers of a £2.99 bag being sold in chemists are celebrating the ultimate fashion compliment after it was spotted on the arm of Kate Moss. Lancashire-based Kate Ball and Jenny Loram-Spring designed the bag to be sold in aid of the Prince’s Trust, which helped them set up business.
Now 50,000 of the canvas creations [...]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2006
Lindsay Lohan has $1m handbag stolen in London
Lindsay Lohan has had her bag containing $1 million worth of jewellery stolen at Heathrow Airport on Thursday 7th September.
Her orange Hermes Birkin handbag was taken from her luggage trolley
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Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
Over £300 million worth of belongings lost or stolen on big nights out
According to a recent survey by Halifax General Insurance over £300m worth of items went missing on nights out last year.
2.5 million people lost a handbag or a wallet last year.
More than half of those (1.6 million) have lost items worth up to £100.
510,000 have lost more than £300 worth of belongings as a result.
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Sunday, September 3rd, 2006
There is more to life than handbags!
Knickers is a blog that talks about UK and US fashions in lingerie. Covering everything including occasionally handbags, the site has some great discount lingerie offers and interviews and advice.
It cleverly has a worksafe version which excludes images than may not quite be appropriate for the workplace.
Knickers was set up, and is edited by Danae [...]
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Saturday, September 2nd, 2006
David Brent (Ricky Gervais) Microsoft Training Videos
A non-handbag related post today. Google video has two Microsoft training videos starring Ricky Gervais as David Brent, reprising his role from the hot TV series The Office.
Part 1 (~20 mins):
Part 2(~17 mins):
Back to handbags very soon!