My bag.

When I was a youngish girl, I carried a very small, white gym-bag style purse with a yellow and purple screened unicorn on it. Of course I clipped my feather roach-clip to it and hung my rabbit's foot on it.

But really, it was my first handbag. Later, there would be LeSportsacs, Liz Claiborne and Esprit.
But I really didn't go high-end until fairly recently.

Because I like to contain all items in one bag while commuting, I started carrying my American Apparel silver gym-bag.

It has a very retro feel, is super lightweight and adds a whole lot of zip to an outfit. Plus, I never have that worry that my bag worth more than anything inside of it will get swiped.

I'm still looking for the feather roach-clip.

$26 at http://www.americanapparel.net/.