Thursday, January 8, 2015

The Universal Purse




The handbag seems to be a pretty universal sort of object. These are from a mad paper by Clifford Richey on academia.edu that interprets these as symbolic signs in a semi-universal symbollography, but I just think it's cool that the basic design is so old and unchanging.

1 comment:

pootrsox said...

It appears, from these images, that the murse is almost as old as man! :D