Anne Kingston considers $375 Bag Ladies. I normally ignore Kingston's articles, but an article on outrageously-priced purses? Yes please!

It's more of a state-of-fundraising article than on expensive bags, which is disappointing, because I wanted to learn more about expensive bags and what makes them good (is it because they're expensive?), but these paragraphs will have to do for now:

Without getting Freudian about it (sometimes a silly Fendi baguette is just a silly Fendi baguette), a purse is an intrinsically female object. Women agonize about selecting the perfect one, as if the handbag they carry is the equivalent of parading around with their soul on handles.

From a fundraising perspective, purses are useful as they've transmuted into recognizable status symbols that signal their owner's success, her ability to thrive in the world. As a result, women are willing to pay stupid amounts of money for them. And far better that money benefit a worthwhile cause rather than the suits at LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton.

When a friend tells me they bought a new bag (a twice-monthly occurrence), I think I'll go back to nodding my head and saying "uh-huh, that's nice."