Brown to Black and Back Again

I first decided I really liked Brighton products because a few years ago I became very frustrated with having to change everything in my purse if I wanted to go from brown to black shoes.  I even designed a purse "shell".  You'd have a purse liner in which you kept all your stuff, and could change the outside shell, altering colors, styles, levels of dressiness.  I even saw a patent lawyer about it, but found that this type of idea had been patented before.  Not exactly the same thing, but the ideas were similar.  Good thing I didn't quit my day job.

Speaking of which, one day, black shoes, next day earth tones.  It got tiring.  Not that I actually changed my purse, mind you, but the fact that I didn't and the knowledge that I wasn't coordinated rankled a bit.

It was a revelation when my friend Sue visited a few years ago.  She had a brown and black Brighton  bag.  "Eureka", says I.  When I looked into it further, I decided (after I recovered my breathing) that they cost more than I could in all conscience pay for a purse.  I did, however, manage to spend countless hours on eBay looking for the right purse.  I wound up finding a couple of wallets I liked and bidding on them.  My wallet rule is that it has to be narrow enough that I can take it out of the purse and slip it into my jeans if I don't feel like carrying a purse.  I found just the right one.

Anyway, to make a long story even longer, last Spring, a friend gave me the perfect Brighton purse.  She said it was to make up for my recent birthday and last Christmas.  It's perfect.  I've been carrying it for a year now, and it still looks brand new, in spite of the fact that I am not particularly easy on purses...or clothes, or shoes...but I digress.   It goes with everything unless I get a wild hair and decide to wear bright blue, which, for some reason never happens.

Thanks, M.  I'm still dazzled.

[The illustration isn't the same bag, but it's pretty close.  From Brighton.]

Comments

[keewee]

I also was frustrated about having to change purses. I found the black/brown purses several years back and am on my second one.

[LC]

Ya could just do like me and be old enough to not give a -- hoot!! -- Color of my purse is black, black, black -- keeps it simple! (Of course, that does not count nights out 8*)
Who has time for color these days??? Unless it's bright blue? 8*)