RiotGirl Collection Featured Item: The Mia Purse

My sister, Mia was a tough girl as a kid.  Fighter. First in our family to stand up to prejudice face-on in our hometown of a, then, very angry Baltimore; First in our family to get a visible tattoo; (It's a gorgeous vintage style dragon that wraps down her arm.  At the time, she had magnificent dredlocks...and is possibly the only person who smelled good wearing pachouli oil.  Everyone else smells like old hippies.  Sorry.  It really is a rank and atrocious smell......except when my sister wore it....); and she was the first in our family to leave home in order to fight Mother Nature  with nothing more than a protective suit, hard had and a shovel (more on that in a bit).  


She lifted weights for fun back then.  And she still has "two tickets to the gun show".....lol....WITHOUT looking like Nichole Bass.  


(Not that there is anything wrong with Nichole Bass.  She rules too for different reasons..especially her cameo in The Cell.......but she's also built like an Amazon Warrior Queen...and although my sister shares the spirit of an Amazon Warrior Queen....she still stands, vertically challenged, at 5'5" so ultra large guns would make her look like Popeye)


Her strength training took her from being the only girl at the gym...to an incredible summer of fighting forest fires in Montana and its surrounding states.


My ever adventurous sister subsequently followed this career with attending mechanic school and became a welder (and I have the picture of her standing INSIDE the engine of a tank to prove it).  She...got bored....with fire and iron and then became a sous chef.  Self taught.


My sister has overcome every gender stereotype there is...and is still all woman.  She giggles like a Japanimation cartoon; she wears black eyeliner with bright eye shadow; she is a rock star; she is a force to be reckoned with.  And she's my sister.


This purse....had to be made.  I immediately thought of Mia when I saw the fabric.  It's a bold choice.  It's pink.  With GLITTER woven into the fibers....like a secret treasure.  It has Sailor Jerry Style tats on it.


It's tough and feminine...just like Mia.  


Gives one's girl side...a drop-kick. 

This glitteriffic bag is tough as nails on the outside and soft and sweet on the inside because the exterior consists of candy pink cotton tattoo printed novelty fabric (and glitter) that is lovingly encased in a layer of clear plastic recycled from an old rain coat. The graceful interior is a soft and seductive blush pink silk charmeuse.

The base of the bag is about 2 inches. No pockets. Slim an prim for any quick getaway from paparazzi with plenty of room for the glam essentials.

This bag is equipped and prepared for any party - from cocktail to kegger - and will still maintain its beauty.

No muss, no fuss, no drama....no problem.