Purses

I stopped by the purse outlet store in Piazza Bausan this week. There's one brand of purses that always makes me laugh, Braccialini. These are actually pretty expensive purses, though with all the appliques these look pretty goofy for an adult woman to carry around. (That said, Italian women can go for some whimsical stuff. It seems out of character.)



Some of them are actually quite cute, like this one of Romeo and Juliet, but I am still not sure I could carry one as a bag on the regular. If it were a throw pillow, I could go for it.



Of course, I probably shouldn't go into the purse store, because it's just temptation to buy stuff. I did work very hard over the last couple weeks, so a cheap cute purse was not an outrageous treat. I had been admiring this pattern of Coccinelle since the summer, when they had big beach totes with the flower pattern, both in this same plastic and printed on denim. I love this pattern, but nothing had struck me quite enough to get me to buy one.



However, this little pochette with the flower cut-out sides was perfect for me. It was tough to pick a color, between the purple and the teal, but I went with my old standby!