Handbags are the preferred purchase among women, survey shows

Women love their handbags! That’s the outcome revealed by a recent survey conducted by a popular shopping app in the UK, saveme4later.com, which polled 2000 of their users on their buying habits. Purchasing a new handbag came in ahead of shoes, concert tickets, jeans, jewelry and chocolates among the items women most like to buy for themselves.

A recent story in the UK’s Doncaster Free Press reviewed the survey and reported that, “Women get more pleasure from buying a handbag than from any other item.”

“Instead of splashing their cash impulsively, most women now spend a lot of time carefully thinking before they buy a new handbag and are more likely to return to view the desired product on a couple of occasions before purchasing” writes the Free Press. Adding that in these tougher economic times, “81 percent of women said they were more careful with what they buy now than five years ago and say they put more thought in to their spending.”

JPK Paris 75 Bucket Handbag

We know that’s true. Women still want their fashionable accessories, but they want them for a good price. A little bit of money needs to go a long way for  thrifty fashion mavens shopping for the best deals, which is why at Silverhooks.com we offer so many well-priced, fashionable purse accessories.

As the survey revealed, women get pleasure from  buying purses – but when you observe women sitting in a restaurant, theater, bar or public event, you can see how awfully they treat their precious handbags. In the absence of an empty chair, stool or table, they often have no choice than to lay their purses on dirty floors, sandwiched between seats or slung over sticky chairs and dripping wet raincoats. When out in public, there is almost never a good place to put a purse so it ends up on the dirtiest place in the room: the floor. Why do women treat something that gives them so much pleasure so poorly? The mission at Silverhooks.com is to provide a way for customers to give their favorite accessory the treatment it deserves by providing a fashionable way for women to enjoy their pricey handbags, while keeping them safe from potential thieves and clean from dirty floors.

Aqua Crystal Classic Purse Hook

Aqua Crystal Classic Purse Hook

No doubt every woman who carries a bag has had moments when she’s needed to put her purse down, but had nowhere to do so. Public restrooms with no hook on the door present a real challenge. Do you try to balance your purse on the rounded toilet paper holder or set it on the wet, toilet-paper-covered floor? Thankfully, there is an easy and accessible answer to every woman’s purse problem: purse hooks! Silverhooks has over 100 purse hook and hangers available in a variety of styles, decorative embellishments and colors to fit every woman’s fashion preferences.

Pink Fumi Bracelet Purse Hook

The classic purse hooks come in convenient carrying pouches so that you can quickly

retrieve your hook and safely hang your purse out of harm’s way. Bracelet purse hangers not only look like pretty fashion accessories, but they double as a purse hanger when you need it. For the smaller slim evening clutches that don’t offer room for more than keys, lipstick and a cell phone, a folding purse hanger would be best.

Folding Purse Hook

Shopping for the things women love is a way for hardworking women to release some tension. A woman’s purse is where she keeps her life: makeup, wallet, photos, pens, business cards, cell phone – everything. Purses become an extension of herself, as they travel with her everywhere she goes. Keep your favorite functional fashion accessory clean and safe with the right purse hook.  View a wide selection of purse hangers at www.Silverhooks.com.

At Silverhooks.com, we take purse fashion to a whole new level.

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Pashminas: The Latest Winter Trend

 

Jennifer Aniston Rocks a Daytime Pashmina



 

This is the perfect time of year to wrap yourself in a luxuriously soft and feminine pashmina scarf.  Pashmina is light as a feather, while offering warmth, style and sophistication to any woman’s wardrobe.

A pashmina scarf, is more generously sized than a typical neck scarf, as it drapes effortlessly and beautifully around a woman’s neck and shoulders without looking or feeling heavy or stifling. This allows a well-dressed woman to wrap herself in the comfort of pashmina alone or beneath her coat or jacket for outdoors, while remaining cozy and stylish as she transitions indoors, still wrapped in her elegant pashmina scarf to ward off the chill caused by fluctuating indoor temperatures.

Nikki Hilton wears a Grey Pashmina while out for the day.

At Silverhooks.com, our popular line of colorful solids and beautifully patterned pashmina scarves measure an ample 72 by 24.5 inches to envelop your shoulders or drape softly around your neck without the heavy bulk traditional scarves tend to deliver. The braided fringe edges give our scarves a fashionable finished look that will compliment both dressed up and dressed down ensembles. Pashmina scarves look just as great over the shoulders of an evening gown or simply wrapped around a casual turtleneck or blouse paired with boots and jeans. How ever you wear yours, you will love the versatility and stylish functionality of a pashmina scarf from Silverhooks!

Our quality solid colored pashmina scarves come in both light and dark pinks, grey, white, beige, purple, aqua, brown, black and red. Also, new to Silverhooks.com, we carry a chic selection of attractive floral, black and white plaid, zebra and paisley print pashmina scarves.

Cameron Diaz wears a red pashmina at an evening event.

At Silverhooks.com we want to help you adorn your wardrobe beautifully with quality, functional and fashionable accessories – including purses, wallets, hats, belts, cellular and handbag accessories, and a large selection of crystal embellished items, such as key chains, cosmetic cases and our popular purse hooks. And remember, shipping is free for retail orders of $50 or more!

 

 

 

 

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Mary Poppins needed one of these!

Keeping a purse organized is tough – especially if you have a deep bag that lacks enough pockets. If you carry your life in your bag, like I do, you know that having a big bag with lots of easy access pockets is essential. Nevertheless, handbag designers don’t always go for function as much as they do for form.

I have several favorite bags that I rotate into whatever is the current season. But trying to find my keys in them is like searching through Mary Poppins’ carpetbag for a safety pin. Women everywhere can identify with Mary Poppins when she reaches into her purse and pulls out a Tiffany floor lamp. My own purse is part briefcase, part overnight bag, part communications center – and I never know what lurks at the bottom.

The diversity and quantity of things women carry in their bags is material used for sitcoms. We’ve all seen the scene where a harried woman empties her purse onto a table in search of a stray aspirin. Everyone around her marvels at what she’s revealed about herself when the contents of her purse are exposed.

I recently purchased three purse hooks from Silverhooks.com. I was keeping one and giving the other two to girlfriends who’s birthday’s were near, and I picked up one of their purse organizers – in hopes of putting some order to the jumble of objects I carry in my purse.

The Silverhooks organizer is a soft-sided, simple container that has loads of pockets in varying sizes. I like the elastic handles for easy lifting into and out of my purses. Mine is made of embossed, leather-like vinyl and acetate – which makes it really easy to wipe clean while still looking fashionable.

I loaded mine up with:

2 checkbooks
A small notebook
2 pens
My wallet
3 makeup brushes
All the makeup I’d need if I were trapped in my office for a week
A hairbrush
Large hair clip
A tin of Altoids®
Eye drops
My trusty purse hook
A flash drive
My iPhone
Earbuds
And – of course, my keys.

Currently, I am swapping out 5 different purses to coordinate with my winter outfits. What used to be an exercise in futility – trying to shift what I needed from one bag to another – now takes me 3 seconds to accomplish with my purse organizer. I just lift the organizer from one purse and drop it into another and I am on my way – unless, I misplace my keys in the house again.