Meet Jewel Pates - Designing Purses For Seniors That Are Fashionable And Safe

For a woman, a purse is more than a place to carry a wallet and credit cards. It's a fashion statement, and often women strive to match purses with shoes, dresses, and earrings. But purses are also targets for thieves, and a purse hanging loosely from one's hand can be easilty snatched. A skilled thief can dash away in a crowd of people and escape with a handbag before the unsuspecting victim has time to react. And for seniors, walking with a cane, or walker, or sitting in a wheelchair, a purse becomes a difficult accessory to manage. As they say, necessity is the mother of invention and for hand bag designer Jewell Pates, the needs of seniors created a unique market for her creative designs. Today she discusses her handbag design business, and how sensitivity for the needs of elederly women created a unique market, for which she developed just the right solution. Her bags will be featured in an upcoming fashion show, "We Live And Remember In Color" by fashion designer Quinton deAlexander.