She might be an author too, like the guy who did the book about lunch boxes and the guy who did last month's book about plastic handbags.

The meeting led not only to a gabfest about plastic handbags, but also a book, "A Certain Style" (Knopf, 1988), about their joint obsession.

A 24-inch-long plastic handbag with a leather handle takes a 100-watt bulb; $240 at Homer, 939 Madison Avenue (74th Street).

Even the rain didn't dampen her spirits as she stood in the queue hopping from foot to foot, clutching her yellow plastic handbag with the pink flower on it.

Carol Shupe is showing 110 shimmering plastic handbags, in black, white and bold colors and with such shapes as beehives, coffins and lunch pails.

V'lu swung her pink plastic handbag in the swarm's direction.

Before she got out, she took a small bottle of Gordon's gin from her huge red plastic handbag and sprinkled most of it over her neckline and cleavage.

She pointed to me with her plastic handbag.

The hard plastic handbag of the 50's has been reinvented for the 90's.

Last August, a new version of the structured plastic handbag was born in the town of Easley, S.C., (pop.