Short, Fat, Lightweight, Lower Priced, Purple Bags are all the Rage for Fall 2009!

The fall 2009 handbag market has just concluded and a lot of positive things have come out of it. I am happy to say that the designers has worked very hard to keep their retail prices down and are starting to recognize that heavier handbags are difficult to sell!

The prices of handbags have been soaring in the past few years. Designers such as Prada, Chloe, and Balenciaga had been raising their prices by huge amounts steadily to the point of ridiculous. Many women who once bought gold-range designer handbags, have begun to look to bridge designers like Lockheart, Kooba and MZ Wallace for quality handbags at half to a quarter of the price. Bridge handbags that were pushing $800 in price, we are seeing now under $600 A side benefit from shopping these collections is she is getting bags that are more unique since these lines tend not to be knocked off and available on the streets of any larger city.

Metal hardware had been stripped off of many purses the last couple seasons. This is probably due to the complaints about the weight. Through a combination of using lighter materials, we are finding more interesting designs and lighter weight handbags.

Popular silhouettes in handbags are all over the board this year. The boxy satchel is still big but we are seeing a strong upturn to the hobo again as well. The freshest style is a bag that is wider than it is deep, This east-west silhouette often has a flap and usually has two handles.

In terms of color, purple is absolutely the color of choice by that handbag designers for fall 2009. Patent finishes and the shiny metalics are hardly being shown.