My Cashin Bag was featured in a Museum of Contemporary Crafts Show!

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What a great story! Every time I open your posts I know it's going to be something rare and fun!

The bag is just gorgeous- and you wear it well. What a great sized bag, too!

Can't beat that investment....both the sentiment and the price. Fabulous! :D
 
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MedtechCarol said:
What a great story! Every time I open your posts I know it's going to be something rare and fun!

The bag is just gorgeous- and you wear it well. What a great sized bag, too!

Can't beat that investment....both the sentiment and the price. Fabulous! :D
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Thanks, I was lucky to get the bag at such a good price a few years ago because Cashin bags are soooo high right now! It is a Meyers bag (not Coach) and it had condition issues so I am sure that also helped to keep the price down. I am so glad that I was able to rehab her because such a pretty bag needs to be worn by someone that appreciates it!
 
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CCfor C said:
That is an absolutely STUNNING bag! I love everything about it. Color, shape, etc. I'm really starting to migrate toward some classics now. This is KILLER...
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Thanks! It is not as bright red as it appears in the pictures, it is more of deep wine color, but very pretty. I work in the city and I see a lot of classic Coach bags being carried by women of all ages and they look chic and classy. I am thrilled to see the classic bags getting so much attention lately!
 
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katev said:
...Way back in 1975!

I know that some of you have already seen these photos and sketches but I am so thrilled that I just wanted to share my discovery with others that I know will appreciate my excitement.

Recently while I was poking around the UCLA digital library's Bonnie Cashin Collection I was very happy to find original sketches for the "Bonnie Cashin for Meyers" bag that I purchased and rehabbed a couple of years ago! She called it the "Body Bag" which is the same name that she used for a different looking bag previously designed for Coach.

Well, I can't seem to stay out of the UCLA Cashin archives and so this weekend I was thrilled when I found a scan of an October 5, 1975 New York Times Magazine article written by Anne-Marie Schiro titled "Hail the Bag"! It's about a show called "Homage to the Bag" that ran at the New York Museum of Contemporary Crafts from October 10, 1975 through January 4, 1976.

And imagine my delight when I saw my "Bonnie Cashin for Meyers Body Bag" prominently displayed and cited on the first page of the article!

I would have loved to have gone to that show! The exhibit took 2 years to gather and included 200 bags representing various historical periods and types of bags. Some were on loan from museums and art galleries and my sweet bag was right there on display with the best of them!

It was not possible to read much of the text from the scan so for $3.95 I purchased a PDF of the article from the NY Times archive, here are a couple of excerpts from Schiro's article:

"What is a bag? Something to carry the groceries home in (or the jewels from Tiffany's), what potato chips are packaged in, a status symbol, what doctors carry their equipment in and lawyers their briefs, an art work by Andy Warhol, what most women and some men use to tote around their everyday necessities...

...The exhibition traces the development of women's purses from the early 19th century when women of fashion carried reticules...to contemporary versions designed by Bonnie Cashin, Marimekko, and Hermes..."

I have attached the scan and sketches from the UCLA archive and a couple of pictures of my rehabbed Bonnie Cashin for Meyers "Museum Quality" Body Bag!

To visit the UCLA archives go to the link below and search for "coach" "meyers" "sketches" etc. It may take a few minutes to load the images:

http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/vi...49199691755951EE5C.node1?ark=21198/zz0002bk1c
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I am reviving this old thread about the red Cashin for Meyers bag that I rehabbed more than a decade ago because I've just found a new reference to my bag in the online Bonnie Cashin Digital Archives at UCLA. (Bonnie Cashin was a very talented, mid-century fashion designer that created the first Coach leather products for women; before that Coach only made wallets, belts, etc for men.)

In the UCLA archive I previously found scans of Bonnie Cashin's original design and sketches for my Cashin for Meyers bag which she called the "Body Bag". I'd also found an October 5, 1975 New York Times Magazine article about the "New York Museum of Contemporary Crafts" exhibit from October 10, 1975 through January 4, 1976 exhibit, that included this bag by Cashin calling it the "Body Bag" see above.

But now I have come across a scan from the San Francisco Chronicle on August 14, 1975 advertising 4 Cashin bags at the I.Magnin store, it includes my bag which is listed as the "Body Hugger" for $48, see below.

Bonnie had previously used the name "Body Bag" for a very large (and desirable!) vintage Coach bag so perhaps there were some concerns about using the same name for a product made for another company? We'll probably never know for sure but I really love finding tidbits about one of my oldest, vintage bags that was created by the brilliant and talented Bonnie Cashin!

You can visit the UCLA Bonnie Cashin Archive at: http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0002bk1c


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