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01-22-2015 11:26 AM
Whenever I write a post about bags (carried on shoulder or on my arm) I hesitate and wonder what to call them. I am wondering if it is regional or age specific. Just curious. I am from Maryland... west of central (we fight about it all the time in our area)
I wear vests mostly or have lots of pockets. I prefer not to carry them at all. I end up forgetting where I put mine and I really don't have much of a collection anyway.
01-22-2015 11:28 AM
In NY, they are just called "bags."
01-22-2015 11:31 AM
I hear all three here in the metro-DC area.
01-22-2015 11:38 AM
I know a very elegant, wise older lady from Long Island who calls them "pocketbooks".
I think perhaps the current preferred fashion way is "handbags".
However, regionally (Michigan, Indiana, Illinois), I hear "purses" much more, and I mostly refer to them as "purses".
01-22-2015 11:38 AM
I'm in WV.
When I was growing up, I said "pocketbook", which is what my mom and grandmother always said. When I got a little older, my friends and I all said "purse".
For the several years, I have started saying "bag".
01-22-2015 11:38 AM
Usually purse or bag here (Ohio valley area) .....growing up, it was pocketbook from my mom and grandmothers generations.
01-22-2015 11:38 AM
In my area of TN, everyone says "purse."
01-22-2015 11:41 AM
maryland area and i say pocketbook or purse.......i use the term handbag on these forums. a ""bag"" is something i get at the grocery store when i am checking out.
01-22-2015 11:44 AM
Actually, I've referred to them all at some point in my life. Currently, it's either purse or handbag for me.
01-22-2015 11:46 AM
Time for our quarterly discussion on what to call a bag... There is no right or wrong. Generally speaking, the meaning is relatively clear regardless of whether one carries a purse, pocketbook, handbag or bag. I too am in DC area and grew up with pocketbook or purse, then gradated to handbag and now, at the post graduate level carry a bag...
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