{"product_id":"after-dark-boots-uk-1960s-black-knit-beaded-bag","title":"After Dark · Boots UK 1960s Black Knit Beaded Bag","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWoven knit with jet bugle bead embellishment and loop fringe · wrist purse · Boots Company UK · 1960s · approx. 12cm wide x 15cm tall\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJet bugle beads, column upon column, so densely worked across the face of this little wrist bag that the knit ground beneath is almost entirely hidden. At the hem, looped bead fringe that moves when you carry it. This bag does not whisper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe\u003cem\u003e Boots Company\u003c\/em\u003e is remembered as the British pharmacy chain, but for a particular decade of the 1960s it read the mood of what women actually wanted to wear out in the evenings, and produced accessories with this kind of finish at a price that meant they didn't have to think twice. There is something quietly political about a beaded evening bag from a chemist: the implicit position being that a woman going to a party should not require a special budget to look magnificent. The fringe agrees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJet glass bugle beads throughout the body, looped seed bead fringe at the hem. Dense, satisfying weight in the hand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44108984549510,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_2868copy.jpg?v=1782256449","url":"https:\/\/checkout.caitiedid.shop\/products\/after-dark-boots-uk-1960s-black-knit-beaded-bag","provider":"caitiedid","version":"1.0","type":"link"}