Here is a Lewis Designs handbag. The outside is fabric. I am not sure what kind; feels like cotton but I am not sure. The inside looks and feels like vinyl.
Interesting....I don't like clutches myself, much prefer a good old strap, but find that they're very popular here in Aus!
Oh and Caryn, I agree with '60s. It looks like the clasp of the strap is broken so I think it would be difficult to fix, or rather, will cost you a bit so I still wouldn't worry.
Thank you everyone. I actually have a hat that matches this so well that I am tempted to sport the two together myself. I will most likely offer them at the same time and mention one another in each of the listings. Here is a photo of the hat.
Two great pieces, and, yes, cross-sell when you list! I agree to not bother with fixing the handle. I've sold a lot of those convertible clutches, and I think most people use them as clutches and not handbags. And I do think it's 60s or maybe early 70s. I love Lewis bags and haven't found one in ages....
Anne, The bag is really nice. I like the costruction and design. The hat is really nice too.
I don't know how to get the pieces off that are left on the bag where the handle broke off. I would like to.
Do the broken pieces move freely behind the slots? If so I would imagine that they a T shaped piece in which case you should be able to bend one of the 'ears' enough to remove them from the slot.
If not they could be wrapped around a thin bar that runs the length between them, this would show on the other side we can't see in your photo as a seam where the metal is rolled round and meets itself. This could be prized apart and off carefully.
Thank you everyone. I was able to get those pieces off.
Pinkcoke you were right. :adore: The pieces had little ears going into the frame of the bag that made the pieces shaped like a T. I could not bend the ears though because they were in a small hole of the frame and not accessible.
I got my husband's toolbox out and I was scared that I would ruin the frame but I took out a metal slicer tool, sorry don't know the technical name for it but I cut through the center of the pieces with it which made one piece into two and then used small pliers to bend the pieces from the middle and pulled them out.
It is a perfect clutch now with no sign that there was ever any handle!
Another case solved by the members and friends of the Vintage Fashion Guild!
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