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For those of you that wish to go green.Do you own part toward saving the Environment.

   Try a grocery/shopping bag to reuse for all of your purchases. Why just limit yourself to groceries.

 Who on earth would be been piling their groceries into something with a shop name on the side. Doing their advertising and Contributing to needless waste. 

Get practising telling the person at the check out that you have your own bag and don’t require one of theirs. Feel free to look a little smug too.For those of you feeling a little crafty, why not try crocheting your own bag. You can be putting your groceries into your Linen Grocery Tote crocheted with your own fair hands?

The Purl Bee, Soho’s swish little knitting shop, have come up with a lovely

 pattern for all your grocery tote needs and, as usual, it’s free. 

Clear text and picture instructions lead you gently by the hook through the whole bag-creating process from the first stitches to handles.

Ultra Large Bronze bag by Gucci

 And for fashion’s big extras: Hats are hot, with the favorite - the fedora - shown in a sportier version with a knitted crown. Check out pouchy Vermeer-inspired wool berets (from Louis Vuitton). And embrace hoods, especially fur trimmed or in knit attached to nylon.

 Gloves: You’ll see bold, padded, elbow-length styles in a fistful of materials, from leather and suede to shear-ling and crocodile.

Belts: They are mannish and often studded. If deep-cinched corset shapes in patent leather or metal sound seductive, they look more like medieval torture.

 Bags: Newest is the soft and squishy leather envelope, which folds under the arm. But there are also stellar versions of the ultra-large bag in bronze leather, fur, and knit as well as Gucci’s how-haute-can-you-go duffel bag.

 Tights: This must-have accessory was turned out in ribbed knits, jewel colors, and graphic patterns. Knee-high socks offer an alternative.

Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen the stylish twins seem to think the bag is always worth the weight and have perpetuated the trend. But seriously what is in there?

Large oversize handbags do seem to be here to stay for fall.

Be careful of the effect a large heavy handbag will have on your anatomy.  You can choose a large oversize handbag, you just don’t have to fill it.  Remember a handbag is a functional accessory.

Bag a big bag - choose that oversize carryall - to get you through the entire season. Harpersbazaar shows the large handbag as one of this falls 30 best accessories.