More Mainstream Western Fashion: Kate Moss with Black Fringed Bag

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:55:14 +0000

Kate Moss is seen here with a black fringe western-style handbag. Photo from Glamour UK.

Fringe is often seen as the quintessential decoration for western fashion. While hair bands may have adopted this look briefly in the ‘80s, the root for this look is western fashion, particularly leather jackets with this look. If you look at product selections at nearly any western clothing store, you’ll also find out that fringe is prevalent on clothing for both genders – and for both adults and children. While leather jackets and chaps are lined with it, women’s purses have it across the front or around the border. Add some western stones like turquoise and quartz to it, and you’ve got yourself a genuine western-style handbag.

Celebrities, aside from washed up hair band musicians, are the latest to sport this trend. Kate Moss, for example, is seen with a black leather fringe handbag. The handbag itself, judging the picture, has about a foot of fringe attached to the bottom and partially lining the sides of the purse. While no turquoise or quartz stones are to be found on such handbags, the latest trend appears to be taking an otherwise-ordinary purse and adding something significantly western to it. In the case of Moss’s handbag, this includes lining a black leather handbag with long, thick fringe.

What are some other possibilities for “western”-izing an ordinary handbag? At Best Handbag Wholesale, this includes adding western stones, such as those named above, onyx, and coral, to a solid-color bag. Other options could be to have a standard bag colored with cow print or adding other western embellishments, such as a belt buckle. While the trend of snakeskin appears to be going out (at least for now), other animal prints are still popular, including cow hide and alligator. Studs, additionally, have been another western style that, similar to fringe and animal print, seems to still appear on celebrity purses.

Black Fringe Handbag Spotted on Lindsay Lohan

admin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:46:27 +0000

Say what you want about Lohan’s now non-existent acting career, but, at least when the paparazzi catch her, she’s sporting some style. In a recent photograph seen on blog Bag That Style, Lindsay Lohan was spotted with two handbags, one of which was a large black suede handbag with fringe along the bottom and silver studs along the perimeter of the bag. In terms of western fashion, this handbag worn by Lohan combines two essential aspects – fringe and studs. The bag itself, especially as it is being worn with an army green leather handbag on Lohan, looks as if it’s being used as a travel bag, instead of an oversized or hobo purse.

Both fringe and studs, especially when combined with leather, also have the appearance of being rocker chic or punk. Although a somewhat rocker chic is in style this season, with celebrities wearing cropped leather jackets or other studded pieces of clothing, these two elements look more western than punk or rocker in many cases, including on the handbag worn by Lindsay Lohan. What’s the difference? Punk or rocker has always been more haphazard, with random studs on a leather jacket or with a spiked collar. Fringe, however, has really only been rocker chic on ‘80s leather jackets sported by hair bands. If Bon Jovi or White Snake and big hair aren’t accompanying this style handbag, it looks more like something to take to a rodeo, especially with the orderly formation of studs around the edge of the bag. In the case of this handbag, the fringe and suede are reminiscent of many western vests and the studs add a little additional bling. As western styles seem to be creeping into the mainstream (python or alligator handbags on celebrities), calling this handbag rocker chic instead of cowgirl doesn’t do the handbag justice.

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More Mainstream Western Fashion: Kate Moss with Black Fringed Bag

Black Fringe Handbag Spotted on Lindsay Lohan