The Christian Dior bag, above, takes the embellished route, with tassels, and other bag makers like them, too (far left, top and bottom).

Four wheels are better than two, bag makers say, because the additional wheels support all of the bag's weight and take less effort to tow.

Then she hired Elizabeth Kaszas, a bag maker from Hungary.

High-end bag makers say losses from fakes could run into the tens of millions each year.

Best recent gift: A gold bag, from a really wonderful bag maker here in Paris called Upla, that I got from a friend.

He remains chairman and chief executive of Sigma Plastics of Lyndhurst, N.J., a plastic bag maker.

Her father is the vice president for sales and marketing at Bag Specialists, a bag maker in Harrison, N.J.

Rob Honeycutt is an American entrepreneur, bag maker, and former bike messenger.

Coach, the bag maker, for example, now makes shoes and furniture.

The company, founded as a bag maker in St. Louis, has annual revenues of $900 million and makes flexible packaging, mainly for foods.