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How You Carry Your Purse Says a Lot about You, Purse Styles and Personality by Body Language Expert, Patti Wood

Making a statement with a handbag used to involve spending lots of money.

In these straitened times, however, it seems all you must do is carry it in the right way.

Body language expert Patti Wood has analyzed how women hold their handbags and suggests there are ten distinctive styles that reveal volumes about their personalities.




For example, while a woman who holds her handbag tightly under her arm in the ‘Armpit Vice’ may merely think she is freeing up her arms, the look also suggests awkwardness, according to American author Patti Wood.

Younger women, she says, tend to go for ‘The Hands-Free’ look, wearing a bag draped across their body from one shoulder.

But Miss Wood warns: ‘The girl who wears a hands-free bag willingly covers up her silhouette and outfit. It is useful but it also shows you are slightly dorky.’

Meanwhile ‘street-smart’ women are likely to adopt the protective ‘Thumb-to-Pit’ style, keeping their thumb firmly hooked around the bag’s handle in a look often sported by Sarah Jessica Parker’s character Carrie in Sex and The City.

Few mere mortals, however, are likely to find themselves in the final category – the ‘I’ve Got a Bag Bitch’ look.

Usually reserved for royalty and, occasionally, Victoria Beckham, it involves not carrying a handbag at all, because you have an assistant – or boyfriend – to carry it for you.

‘When people feel the need to look fabulous all the time, they can’t be encumbered with anything,’ Miss Wood said.


            

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Patti Wood, MA - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com.