Chanel ‘Naked’ bag from Bag, Borrow, or Steal
Speaking of closet overflow…if your wardrobe is as packed to the gills with designer handbags as mine is, you may be just the candidate for Bag, Borrow, or Steal’s Ultimate Bagaholic Contest. To enter, sit down and pen a few hundred words on why you heart your handbags so much, how long in the sample sale line you had to wait in order to get it, etc. Not a scribe? Then sumbit a video explaining the same. The rich rewards if you win the contest’s Chief Bag Officer post include having your pick of fall’s handbags, and then showing & telling all.
Keep in mind that only the most enthusiastic, accessory fanatic will win. How do I know? Well I’m one of the judges, (along with Glamour’s fashion genius Ashley Baker, Elle.com’s fearless Market Girl Carol Han, Faran Krentcil the mastermind behind Fashionista, and Lesley Scott of the famed Fashiontribes). To enter, read up on the rules, check out the competition, and enter before September 4th. May the best bag-lover win. x S.C.
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kate | 10-Aug-07 at 11:11 am | Permalink
great info - thanks!
JimsWife | 10-Aug-07 at 6:19 pm | Permalink
The contest sounds like a Winner! The list of judges is impressive. The thought of renting a bag someone else used turns me off! I carry my puppy in my bag. How do we know what lurks in the borrowed purse? YIKES!
JimsWife | 24-Aug-07 at 8:24 pm | Permalink
Elisabeth Leamy, Consumer Correspondent, ABC News’ ‘Good Morning America’ wrote and published an article in August, 2006, titled “A Microbiologist Found Millions of Germs on Purses: The outside and the bottom of purses can be what one expert called “subways for germs.”
According to Leamy, Microbiologist Chuck Gerba researches where organisms that make us sick lurk and lately he says he has found that germs gather on the outside of a woman’s purse, especially on the bottom.
Microbiologist Chuck Gerba said, “We found fecal bacteria you normally find on the floor of restroom,” he said. “We found bacteria that can cause skin infections on the bottom of purses. What’s more amazing is the large numbers we find on the bottom of purses, which indicates that they can be picking up a lot of other germs like cold viruses or viruses that cause diarrhea.
“Using a hand-held germ meter, Gerba demonstrated how much bacteria can grow on a woman’s purse for ABC News, with results that ranged from scary to downright terrifying. Health experts worry when the meter reads over 200, which means thousands of bacteria are present. He found thousands of germs on one woman’s purse. She bought her bag about a month ago and Gerba’s measurements showed her purse also carried thousands of germs. ABC News is not naming the women who participated in order to protect their identities. “I’ll probably just get a new one,” she said. Yet another woman has been carrying a handbag around for years and Gerba said that he found “hundreds of thousands of germs on the surface.” Gerba found about half a million bacteria on the bottom of one woman’s large bag.
Need I say more? I believe the Leamy and Gerba documentary says it all. And, I repeat, “Says it all!”