The beaded bags are among the most memorable, especially those using beads so fine the French describe them as sable - covered with sand.

I thought, My father can go down the street to Saks and get something ordinary like a beaded bag.

Desiree found a razor in her beaded bag and pushed up her sleeve.

"He was the first one, really," the girl with the beaded bag said unhappily.

So when you open a beaded bag and find an old dance card, you just toss it out?

A nearby box is filled with beaded bags.

Even more rapid was the girl's action with the beaded bag that matched her blue gown.

Although it wasn't pink, it was small and stylish, the perfect size to be slipped into a beaded bag for an evening at the opera.

She took a cigarette from her beaded bag and lit it.

Most couldn't afford the smallest beaded bag, and those who could didn't need it.