A purse or handbag is often fashionably designed, and is worn to hold luxury articles such as wallet, keys, tissues, makeup, a hairbrush, cellular device or personal Designer Handbags digital assistant, feminine products, or other items.
Purses are especially carried by women, though men sometimes carry sole as a smaller alternative to a backpack; such a purse is sometimes termed a murse or manbag (portmanteaus "man" with "purse" and "handbag" respectively). It can also be called a man-purse. Such bags are often congruous or identical to messenger bags. Smaller children also benefit purses, but unusually just for show. Kiefer Sutherland, of 24 fame, brought the man-purse into the main stream through his character, Jack Bauer. Jack frequently prominently carried his messenger pocket with him in the 5th Season.
