Search Articles:
Free Articles on Fashion & Accessories and many related topics

A Top Quality Free Fashion & Accessories Article For You

Home | Fashion & Accessories


Show Your Style With a Breifcase

By: Stephen Dolan

Briefcases are the traditional accessories for busy professionals and business people on the go. And for good reason; briefcases are able to occupy the perfect position between high functionality and high style. What better way is there to cart your documents around the city than in a fine leather briefcase?

The basic briefcase and its variations

The traditional or basic briefcase design is a leather skin stretched over a metal frame with a hinged compartment. This traditional design, the one that probably pops into your mind when you think of a briefcase, is called an attache, and is decades old. It first gained in popularity among diplomatic circles in 10th century Paris. Even today, this traditional design is the most popular briefcase design out there, and any advances in style or function are really just variations on the traditional design.

The traditional material for making briefcases was genuine leather. These days however, briefcases are made from many other materials. Aside from genuine leather, popular materials used in the construction of a briefcase include synthetic leather, vinyl and nylon.

The most common variation of the traditional briefcase is the folio case. A folio case is basically just a briefcase but with a wider compartment. A folio case is therefore perfect if you have an unusually large number of documents to ferry somewhere. If you are doing this frequently, you should consider getting a folio case with a retractable handle and wheels.

Current briefcase trends

The most fashionable briefcases today have moved away from the traditional box shape to a more relaxed bag-like structure. These bags will often forgo the traditional hinged compartment structure and instead rely on a flap enclosure that fastens to the side of the briefcase.

These briefcases will also usually have an optional shoulder strap, an additionl that would be unheard of on a traditional briefcase. These newer style briefcases are sometimes called briefbags, shoulder bags, or courier bags.

Another change from the traditional briefcase design has been the move towards accommodating laptops and other electronic devices such as Blackberries and cell phones. The first laptop bags were strictly functional vinyl bags that cared little for aesthetics.

Today however, there are numerous high end laptop bags on the market that rival the sophistication and styling of a traditional briefcase. Designers of briefcases have learned that for modern professionals, their laptop is usually the most important focus of their work and the item that needs to be moved around from home to office far more than the occasional sheet of paper.

Modern briefcases that are designed for laptops will often include a special pocket inside the compartment where the laptop can be securely stowed, as well as extra padding around the laptop to protect it from the occasional bump or the dreaded fall. Another movement in contemporary briefcases is to have a multitude of pockets and other attachments on the outside of the briefcase in order to secure the owners host of electronic gadgetry. Once again, an advancement that goes against the sleek and streamlined aesthetic of traditional briefcases.

Article Source: http://www.article-exposure.com

Steve Dolan has gone through a lot of breifcases in his time. Keeping stylish and up to date is easy at Breifcases and LapTop Bags and for the ladies try Purses and Hand bags

Please Rate this Article

 

Not yet Rated

Click the XML Icon Above to Receive Fashion & Accessories Articles Via RSS!
Additional Articles From - Home | Fashion & Accessories


 
Web www.article-exposure.com

Home | Fashion & Accessories

Authors

Already Registered?

Please Login to submit your Articles

New Authors Wanted!
Sign Up Today and submit your Articles for FREE!

Submit Articles
Submission Guidelines
Terms of Service
Home
Link To Us

Email Marketing

Don't miss out on this explosive 71-page, step-by-step guide. Learn all you need to know about utilizing the power of autoresponders; the killer strategies to making your product irresistible & much more. PLUS an 8-part autoresponder mini-course that you can copy word for word & adapt to any product - and all for the price of a burger!! Learn More >>>




Publishers

Silent Sales Machine on eBay

So many people are trying to build a web-site and then trying desperately to get traffic to their web-site. Find out how to become part of the $24 Billion eBay boom? Discover the Silent Sales Machine HIDING on eBay.... you'll be amazed!
Read More >>



FAQs

Other Resources


failover hosting

Reliable, Failover Hosting.
Host Unlimited Domains On One Account For
One Low Price!
More >>


 

 

 

 
Article Exposure » Copyright © 2007




Terms of Service | Submission Guidelines | Contact Us | Link to Us| Privacy Policy | About Us

Powered by Article Dashboard