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A handbag, or purse in American English, is a handled medium-to-large bag that is often fashionably designed, typically used by women, and used to hold personal items such as wallet/coins, keys, cosmetics, a hairbrush, mobile phone etc. 
Model at New York Fashion Week showing a Louis Vuitton handbag. Variations A medium-to-small-sized handbag with a short handle, designed to be carried (clutched) in one’s hand, is often called a clutch which is similar to a pocketbook. 
Vintage pocketbook A larger handbag with two handles is often called a tote. A security bag protects the carrier from travel theft and includes an invisible stainless steel strap sewn into the fabric and a protectant on the main zipper. In North America and the United Kingdom, handbags are traditionally carried only by women. Increasingly in North America, younger men carry one as a smaller alternative to a backpack; such a handbag is sometimes termed a manbag, or in American slang, murse (portmanteaus of "man" with "handbag" and "purse", respectively), also a male purse or man-purse. Many handbag companies now have specific collections that cater to men’s bag needs. Some of the styles are actually messenger bags. Young girls also use small purses or clutches, but usually just for play or dress-up. 
Crocodile skin handbags in a conservation exhibit at Bristol Zoo, England
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