Patent ID: 7222649

Claim:
An appearance-enhancing handbag article of manufacture comprising: A. a semi-circular horizontally oriented shaped handbag body having a similarly shaped wall means bounding an interior handbag compartment and having opposite circular spaced apart side panels circumscribing a width of said body; B. a pair of adjacent edges located along a top of said handbag body serving as an opening into said interior handbag compartment; C. a pair of two spaced apart body flaps of stiffened construction material connected to extend in outwardly divergent orientations on opposite sides spaced from said opening into said interior handbag compartment; D. a selected appearance-enhancing decorative panel with opposite ends having an operative position with each of said ends connected to a cooperating body flap and a length portion positioned in encircling relation about said handbag body; E. at least two decorative panel-holding straps each having an outer edge and an inner edge in an operative attached position to said handbag body (1) means for attachment of said outer edge to a cooperating circular shaped handbag side panel and assuming an imparted semi-circular shape of said attachment, and (2) said inner edge being unattached and in a folded position against said handbag body; and F. operative positions of said straps assumed by a folding thereof in a pivotal transverse transposing from an outer to an inner position of said straps relative to sites of attachment of said straps; whereby a folding of said straps apply a holding grip upon opposite peripheral sides edges of said decorative panel and an unfolding panel-releasing movement is resisted by said curvature assumed by said outer strap edges.