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"facebook dialogPinterest\n\n&amp;quot;When I started the blog, I had two handbags,&amp;quot; recalls Mahoney, who has been documenting her obsession with purses for five years now. &amp;quot;Ever since I was a teenager, I would always go to my parents and beg for a new bag.&amp;quot;\n\nThis fascination with purses has made her quite an authority, even though her approach is quite simple. At first, Meaghan would research a bag, look it up online, and analyze it from the images. Sometimes, she would peruse her local department stores and try the bag on, playing with the texture or feeling the quality. But now that the blogging world has taken off, there\u2019s less department store trips for PurseBlog.\n\n&amp;quot;Designers will send us bags, or we\u2019ll go to their showrooms to see the collection. That gives us the opportunity to look at it here, close-up. That way, I can try it on, see how it fits, or where it hangs, which is so important to me,&amp;quot; she said. She added that with all of her experience also comes a great deal of learning: &amp;quot;If you know the designer well, you eventually get a better idea of what the bag will look like in person.&amp;quot;\n\nBeyond just pictures and reviews of purses, the blog carefully monitors trends and a variety of different brands. A separate component of Purse Blog is the contemporary-focused site PurseBlog Savvy, which showcases purses of a lower price range, whereas the main site focuses on &amp;quot;premium designers&amp;quot;. Another unique feature of the blog is Bag That Style, where the team analyzes celeb photos to find out what bag they\u2019re wearing. That way, readers can buy the purse (or a similar model) online.\n\nPurseBlog\u2019s cult following meets in its now-famous forum, where users can share experiences and stories about their bags as well as pose questions to each other. &amp;quot;I have learned so much from the forum,&amp;quot; Meaghan confessed. &amp;quot;Our members are so knowledgeable. I can remember I was excited when we had 300 members. Now we have over 250,000!&amp;quot; This success, she is careful to point out, did not happen over night."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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