to not understand why so many young ladies carry handbags on the crook of their elbow.

[glasgowsteven]

Huge heavy handbags....this cannot be comfortable or even good for you...

fashion victims in the real sense of the word..

My granny with her cats bum faced used to carry a bug handbag this way...

Kids these days eh...harrumph etc

I don't get how it's a "fashion trend" the handbags themselves are surely the fashion trend. The way we hold them is just the comfiest way to hold them.

citrus and painty what are you on about?!

Women have been carrying bags like this for years, centuries! Actually, carrying your bag over the body with a long strap is a more 'fashionable' way, as it wasn't how victorians did it.

I'm really confused as to how this is at all 'fashion'?!

I have never been quite as bemused by a MN thread before.

I do this but am not young and had no idea this is apparently a trend among young people. I take my lead from the Queen.

LRD I have to agree. This is the most I have ever been at a thread. And I have been here 10 years.

Is this a joke? Am I missing something?

I'm just going to add my face. Why, but WHY, will I look back and blush at the way I carried my bag?

This really annoys me too. The perpetrator is usually doing a silly quick-stepping walk too and has bun right on top of their head.

Haha I love this - take my lead from the Queen

Carrying a bag on you arm is a fashion?

I assume it's so that they can keep both hands free for texting, can 't do that when holding your bag by the handles. I think it contributes to the helpless female look, along with high heels, and hair and make up that can't survive weather.

I forgot false nails!

It's "fashionable" and thus, looks daft.

Another 'moron' here. I have a curve in my spine, my bag is heavy. Carrying it on my shoulder tends to put weight onto my spine causing me some serious pain whichever shoulder I use. I carry it on the crook with my arm forward, a lot easier for me.

Depends on the bag and whatever else you're wearing. YABU.

This is not a joke thread.

Unless I have missed something, all of a sudden there are gaggles of girls between 15 and 25 who all hold handbags like this, I say hand bags they are bigger than most gym bags!

I am glad I am not alone in thinking it looks silly....

Um, there's also thousands of women, of all ages who also carry their handbags in this way.

Because it's normal.

Why does how you hold a bag make you look silly?

Good lord just when I thought there was nothing left to judge people about....

I have arthritis in my collar bone and sternum on one side - I hold my bag however its possible that day... if thats OK with you of course

I think the OP is talking about the exaggerated upturned hand/clenched fist that's outstretched, that goes with the handbag in the crook of the arm. May have started with V Beckham.

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I don't understand why so many women need to carry big bags at all?

I'm 40, I've only ever need my keys, debit card and some money. Anything I need goes in my pockets, I don't even own a purse. I Certainly don't need a handbag and wouldn't want one.

Looks like VB is just getting ready to clock someone who questions the way she holds her bag...

What a bizarre thread, really can't imagine why someone would be irritated by this

Good for you

That was to Joysmum...