The joys of a wicker handbag!

1Professor · ‎12-07-2014

I remember having a beloved wicker handbag in high school. So spring. Haven't had one since.

One of my favorite handbag designers, Patricia Nash, just came out with a spring line of wicker. I'm loving this one.

Patricia Nash Lucena Wicker Satchel

12 x 8-3/4 x 4-1/2

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This new wicker bag is on her web site, as well as on Zappos.

Patricia Nash is celebrating her first anniversary at HSN April 17. Can't wait to see what she offers.

Love to see and hear about your wicker bags!

1Professor · ‎12-07-2014

Here's the Lucena in multi stripe wicker! How fun.

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1Professor · ‎12-07-2014

Update!

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Macy's has the Lucena at 30% off today!

Nightowlz · ‎03-11-2010

What year were wicker handbags popular?

I really don't seem to remember them? Don't know anyone that had one.

I do remember straw type bags & that type you see when you go to the beach.

I looked at some pics online of wicker handbags & some look nice & some look like picnic baskets.

1Professor · ‎12-07-2014

@Nightowlz:

In my life, it was the 1960s.

Here's a blurb on the history of wicker handbags, from a collector's blog:

In the early 1950s, the casual handbag emerged, as women demanded purses that were both fashionable and capable of holding all their cosmetics and accessories. Large shoulder shopping totes made from straw seemed to capture the spirit of summer and vacationing on the beach. Soon, affordable and sprightly little baskets of woven rushes were all the rage, like those made by the likes of Los Doradas. These often resembled small handheld picnic baskets with ribbons and decorative elements on top, like plastic or fabric fruits or flowers. This down-market trend, started by Dorset Rex of New York, never appeared on the pages of Vogue, but were well-loved by the “dance hall crowd.” Such bright, colorful straw bags remained popular well into the '60s, when whimsy became the new black. Straw handbags made of plaited raffia, rattan, rushes, willow, cane, and dried grasses didn’t remain the domain of the plebes for long. In the mid-1950s, sophisticated straw handbags appeared in southern France. Eaton Bag Company issued elegant raffia baskets, as well as trunks made of black-lacquered straw closed with a gilded lock and key. Elizabeth Arden even created a high-fashion take on a shrimp basket, outfitted with a compass in 1956. By 1958, giant hand-woven basket bags were finally staples of high-fashion magazines. Nantucket, an American company that had been selling straw baskets since the turn of the century, began producing rattan purses, and these became status symbols for the wealthy yachting set who would sail between Nantucket Island and the Riviera. These bags were coveted for their tight weaves, tops and bottoms made of hardwoods like walnut, hand-carved bone ornaments and fasteners, and leather hinges closures wrapped in rattan. Coach, meanwhile, made the straw purse classy and affordable for office workers, adding durable leather trim and handles.