Product code: Koret Black Quilted Hobo buying Style Bag with Chain/leather strap
This is a medium size Koret black purse/handbag, with a chain strap. It is new without tags and still has the plastic on the emblems. It is a fabric quilted bag. Chain and leather braided strap adding that little extra sass! Again, I try to include a little something about the companies/items I post: I'm not sure that these little clutches caught on. I don't recall seeing other ads from the early 1940s with them, and in spite of what the ad is trying to say, a hand-held bag is just not practical. In many photos I've seen of young women and students during the war years, the women are using the much more practical shoulder bag. You can't blame Koret for trying, though. Koret was established in 1929 by Richard Koret. By the 1940s the company was a leader in the handbag industry. In 1965 Richard Koret was killed in a plane crash, and the company was eventually acquired by Michael Gordon, who ran it until the late 1990s. The Koret name was bought by a company in 2009, and Koret buying Features.
This is a medium size Koret black purse/handbag, with a chain strap. It is new without tags and still has the plastic on the emblems. It is a fabric quilted bag. Chain and leather braided strap adding that little extra sass! Again, I try to include a little something about the companies/items I post: I'm not sure that these little clutches caught on. I don't recall seeing other ads from the early 1940s with them, and in spite of what the ad is trying to say, a hand-held bag is just not practical. In many photos I've seen of young women and students during the war years, the women are using the much more practical shoulder bag. You can't blame Koret for trying, though. Koret was established in 1929 by Richard Koret. By the 1940s the company was a leader in the handbag industry. In 1965 Richard Koret was killed in a plane crash, and the company was eventually acquired by Michael Gordon, who ran it until the late 1990s. The Koret name was bought by a company in 2009, and Koret buying Features.