My Latest Purse Obsessions |TheWellSet.com

The designers keep churning them out and I keep salivating over them... Purse obsession is a really interesting thing. Because you can only carry one at a time. Because they don't always go with everything. Because you have to change purses if they are not work appropriate aka I had to switch to my demure black purse for a work event that was not appropriate for my all fringe cross body bag. "Hey you got to hide your love away!"

My older sister has an obsession, although she prefers to call it a collection, with Fendi Baguettes. Fortunately for her there are many, many different versions and so she'll never own all of them and will always have something to look for. Because every woman ever is always looking for the perfect something. It's always about the chase with us. That is why I love thrift store shopping because there are some really tremendous finds, but you just have to look...

I've spent an abnormally large portion of my short life focusing on purses that you can invest in. This is simply because I do not want to end up on Hoarders.

Therefore, only the best will do. They have to be classic with an edge. And must last.

I want to give them to my grandaughter when I am an old lady and when she's on the back page of Teen Vogue getting interviewed for her tremendous personal style she can say, "my Gam Gam is one of the most stylish and fashion forward women I know" and "she's my fashion icon." Ah, sigh. To dream. [see my hypothetical granddaughter at right]

Enough of my blabbering let's get to the good stuff- my two covetable, earthly obsessions {remember folks, you can't take 'em with you}: