# Clarice Starling's handbag **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarice-starlings-handbag/431196 **Category:** Cafe Society **Tags:** movies **Created:** [December 25, 2007, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarice-starlings-handbag/431196 "2007-12-25T10:24:08Z") **Posts on this page:** 3 **Page:** 2
### Author: ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad) #### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarice-starlings-handbag/431196/21 "2022-05-12T18:54:24Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > He was reading her. Bone structure, accent, accessories (nice bag, cheap shoes). He was also taking a dig at her. “Nice bag, cheap shoes” showed that he knew what he was talking about and that he noticed her crappy shoes. ---
### Author: ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn) #### Post date: [May 13, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarice-starlings-handbag/431196/22 "2022-05-13T00:09:13Z")
To be fair, she’d already lasted a lot longer than anybody else that’d tried to talk to him. ---
### Author: ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1) #### Post date: [May 13, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarice-starlings-handbag/431196/23 "2022-05-13T16:03:46Z")
Band name. ‘Clarice Starling’s Handbag’. … I would think a beginning agent like Clarice Starling would be doing a lot of walking and field work, and she would need something easier on the feet (and thus cheaper) than Laboutins or Jimmy Choos to keep up with the purse. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarice-starlings-handbag/431196.md?page=1)