Auction Ends: May 1, 2013 09:00 PM EDT

Handbags & Jewelry

Summerland Backpack by Beach Handbags

Item Number: 145

Estimated Value: 159 USD
Sold: 160 USD to Jacomini

Number of Bids: 17 - Bid History

Item Description

Do you love the organized convenience of a backpack but want something with a more sophisticated and polished design? Beach Handbags presents the Vintage Cottage Summerland Beach backpack. The pattern is mostly a small yellow floral print with pink flower accents. This backpack has three exterior zipper pockets, two water bottle pockets, and enough interior zip and slip pockets to organize all your odds and ends. The Summerland Beach Backpack is 12” wide x 17” tall x 4” deep with adjustable straps. The fabric is Neoprene, which is traditionally used for wetsuits and scuba gear.

Item Special Note

About Beach Handbags and Accessories
In 2002, Karl Ozinga had the innovative idea to design a women's handbag using neoprene as the fabric. Neoprene, traditionally the material of wetsuits and scuba gear, had never successfully been used by a fashion design studio. Karl succeeded, and California Leash Company was founded as an in-home design studio.

Karl's wife, Amber, traveled up and down the California coast selling the unique Beach handbag. Even though the CLC collection had only one bag, she easily sold the stylish, light-weight, flexible and easy to clean design to dozens of shops and boutiques. By 2004, Beach handbags were sold in stores throughout the nation, as well as in the Cayman Islands, Puerto Rico and Canada.

Over the years, the Beach collection evolved into a full fashion line of dozens of handbags and accessories. Karl's beautiful innovative designs, paired with the vibrant color patterns and creative prints that define the collection, have given Beach Handbags a distinctive niche in the world of fashion.

Today, ten years after its inception, California Leash Company is known as Beach Handbags and Accessories. It is more than a small design studio. Beach is a growing "family" of highly valued, talented individuals who share in Karl and Amber's original vision. That vision is to spread joy and love through unique products that provide individuals with endless opportunities to express themselves through fashion.