EditorialAn attendee’s purse is marked with the name of the Westminster Kennel Club during the 147th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, May 8, 2023. (Calla Kessler/The New York Times)
EditorialA cat-shaped purse carried by Chloe Fineman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 1, 2023. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
EditorialA cat-shaped purse carried by Chloe Fineman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 1, 2023. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
EditorialA cat-shaped purse carried by Chloe Fineman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 1, 2023. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
EditorialA cat-shaped purse carried by Chloe Fineman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 1, 2023. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
EditorialA cat-shaped purse carried by Chloe Fineman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 1, 2023. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
EditorialA cat-shaped purse carried by Chloe Fineman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 1, 2023. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
Editorial A civilian carries a dog while clutching bags from Samaritan’s Purse, an international humanitarian aid organization, in Siversk, a city north of Bakhmut in the Donetsk province of eastern Ukraine, on March 16, 2023. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
Editorial A civilian carries a dog while clutching bags from Samaritan’s Purse, an international humanitarian aid organization, in Siversk, a city north of Bakhmut in the Donetsk province of eastern Ukraine, on March 16, 2023. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
Editorial A civilian carries a dog while clutching bags from Samaritan’s Purse, an international humanitarian aid organization, in Siversk, a city north of Bakhmut in the Donetsk province of eastern Ukraine, on March 16, 2023. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
EditorialMalaria medication, which Miriam Abdullah keeps in her purse at all times, in Nyalenda, Kenya, a poor community where the disease is endemic and ubiquitous, Dec. 8, 2021. (Kang-Chun Cheng/The New York Times)
EditorialDragonflies from a dance outfit that Cecilia Spencer, 13, outgrew now decorate a purse, at the 122nd annual Arlee Celebration powwow in Arlee, Mont., July 1, 2022. (Tailyr Irvine/The New York Times)
EditorialBarbara Cohl’s beaded purse features a portrait of her dog Teddy at the Westminster Dog Show in Tarrytown, N.Y., on Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (Calla Kessler/The New York Times)