![]() We chose a very special leather that wasn't being used for making handbags-as a matter of fact, the leather was used to make baseball gloves." "The Coach concept originally was very simple. ![]() They weren't dressy bags," Cahn’s husband Miles told NPR in 2013. (See some of the company's early handbags in this slideshow.) These shopping bags inspired Cahn to create the first Coach purse. As a young girl, Cahn would deliver the noodles to customers in paper shopping bags. Part of the reason: its original design was based on the Depression-era paper bags that designer Lillian Cahn’s mother had used to run her noodle-making business.Ĭahn’s family were Hungarian immigrants who ran a variety of small businesses from their home in Willkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to make ends meet during that lean time. ![]() Unlike the handbags of the 1950s, it was built to wear, and to hold a lot. The Coach bag was a new kind of purse for a new era. For the 1960s, Coach's sporty, practical styling was unique. ![]()
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