EditorialAn attendee’s purse is marked with the name of the Westminster Kennel Club during the 147th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, May 8, 2023. (Calla Kessler/The New York Times)
EditorialA cat-shaped purse carried by Chloe Fineman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 1, 2023. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
EditorialA cat-shaped purse carried by Chloe Fineman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 1, 2023. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
EditorialA cat-shaped purse carried by Chloe Fineman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 1, 2023. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
EditorialA cat-shaped purse carried by Chloe Fineman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 1, 2023. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
EditorialA cat-shaped purse carried by Chloe Fineman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 1, 2023. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
EditorialA cat-shaped purse carried by Chloe Fineman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 1, 2023. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
EditorialBarbara Cohl’s beaded purse features a portrait of her dog Teddy at the Westminster Dog Show in Tarrytown, N.Y., on Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (Calla Kessler/The New York Times)
Editorial27th Annual Critics' Choice Awards - Arrivals, Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel, Century City, Los Angeles, California, United States - 14 Mar 2022
EditorialA designer purse that Kerry Andersen bought before Hurricane Laura that has been cleaned but still smells moldy, in New Orleans on Feb. 5, 2022. (Edmund D. Fountain/The New York Times)
EditorialCherie Lockhart places her COVID-19 vaccination card in her purse, outside of North Shore Pharmacy in Shorewood, Wis., on Thursday, July 22, 2021, where she received her vaccine. (Marla Bergh/The New York Times)
EditorialCherie Lockhart places her COVID-19 vaccination card in her purse, outside of North Shore Pharmacy in Shorewood, Wis., on Thursday, July 22, 2021, where she received her vaccine. (Marla Bergh/The New York Times)
EditorialA fan wears a basketball purse during the New York Liberty basketball team's season opener against the Indiana Fever at the Barclays Center in New York, May 14, 2021. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialNicole Kidman's signed Prada purse and caftan worn by Barbra Streisands in Meet the Fockers among slew of items going under the hammer in huge celebrity auction
EditorialA sign made by the husband of a patient who died from complications related to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, in a break room at Samaritan's Purse field hospital, in Central Park near Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, Monday, April 13, 2020. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)