Unzip the wristlet and balance it on top of your head,

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like a cook's hat. Immediately, the people around you will understand that you're a culinary genius who's skilled with tongs. The minaudiére is technically a piece of jewelry — not a bag — but, since it performs the same function as a clutch or wristlet, I feel obliged to mention it. Rigid, dainty and compact, the minaudiére has a certain je ne sais quoi that will drain you of your dignity as your date uses the bathroom at ApplebSince the typical minaudiére is shiny and covered in semi-precious stones, you can dangle it from a chain around your neck, like Mr. T. Notice, here, how I appear sophisticated, yet street-savvy, as if to say, "I got that ruby embellishment, son, and lip gloss." s. NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Coach Inc. is betting that this $595 floral-printed leather handbag can help end the slide in its sales — and its stock. The upscale handbag maker COH, +1.39% once known for classic designs, is now filling its shelves with more color and unusual textures such as haircalf, and cutting down on logos. In what otherwise was a gloomy quarterly earnings report, the company said it is starting to feel the impact of Stuart Vevers, a British designer hired as executive creative director in 2013, after he radically transformed another traditional accessories brand, Spain's Loewe S.A. Vevers launched Coach's first apparel line, which includes leather skirts, trench coats and T-shirt dresses, and put on the company's first-ever show at New York Fashion Week earlier this year. On Tuesday, Coach cited positive North American comparable sales for handbags that cost more than $400, which now accounts for 30% of sales of that business. Coach handbags generally have sold for between $200 and $400. Now its website lists a $1,300 black messenger bag made of pebbled leather and plush shearling, and $1,100 printed-haircalf satchels. Whether Vevers, and Coach, can succeed remains an open question. Fashion is a finicky business, and Coach has lost business to pricier rivals Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. and Kate Spade & Co. Coach faces the added challenge of getting customers to accept far fewer sales at its full-priced retail stores as well as at its outlets. The drop in promotional events is one reason sales have been sliding this year. On Tuesday, the company reported a 24% first-quarter plunge in comparable sales at company-owned North American stores, the worst in its history. 

Overseas sales rose 4%, but growth is slowing in China and sales have been falling in Japan, two key markets outside the U.S. Investors and analysts remained skeptical Tuesday, and the stock fell as much as 8% in early trade to its lowest price in more than 4 1/2 years. While Vevers' collection has been well-received by the fashion press, it was only launched last month. U.S. consumer spending remains soft, and it is too soon to tell whether consumers are willing to pay full price for Coach bags. And while the company kept its full-year sales outlook, it is still calling for a percentage drop "in the high teens" for North America comparable-store michael kors cyber monday sales. "We don't believe it has the right product to slow (comparable sales) deterioration, particularly as it consolidates the (North American) store base," Canaccord Genuity analyst Laura Champine wrote in a report. She rates the stock a hold. Despite a new fall collection that opened to positive runway reviews, Coach's first-quarter results are still expected to slide as the maker of purses and accessories in the affordable luxury market slowly continues to engineer a brand makeover. Coach (NYSE:COH) reports before the open on Tuesday. Shares rose 0.5% by midafternoon in the stock market today, Monday. "We believe new fall product will be the primary focus on the call, and while we are encouraged by the design and believe early interest has been positive... we do not believe it has materially moved the financial needle," said William Blair analyst Amy Noblin in a Sept. 30 note. Wall Street expects Q1 earnings to tumble 41.6% to 45 cents a share from 77 cents in the same quarter last year and sees revenue dipping 12.7% to slightly more than $1 billion. Last week's Q4 Baird Consumer Handbag Survey noted slightly higher overall U.S. demand for handbags, with Michael Kors (NYSE:KORS) continuing to gain market share and smaller purse-maker Kate Spade (NYSE:KATE) making "modest gains across the board." "While Coach again led purchase intent on absolute basis (and showed sequential improvement), relatively lower gains contributed to further loss of share," said Baird analyst Mark R. Altschwager in the survey note. "We found that Coach customers indicated lower frequency of shopping in branded stores. COH is accordingly closing (about) 70 underperforming full-price stores and renovating several flagships in (fiscal) 2015." Coach's fiscal 2015 has already begun. 

Kors and Kate have been overshadowing the outlet- and logo-heavy Coach in recent years, though Coach has since hired designer Stuart Vevers to give its fall collection a fresh look and has significantly decreased promotional activity at its full-price stores. Whether its turnaround will prove successful remains to be seen. Meanwhile, Victoria's Secret parent L Brands (NYSE:LB) received an upgrade from Bank of America to neutral from underperform, according to Benzinga, and D.A. Davidson downgraded teen retailer Zumiez (NASDAQ:ZUMZ) to neutral from buy. A knock-off Michael Kors handbag that Cloudmark researcher Tom Landesman got in the mail when he followed a spam link to its logical conclusion. If you haven't gotten spam on your Apple iMessage, count yourself lucky. Spam has been ballooning on the tech giant's mobile messaging service, security researchers at CloudMark say. In May, iMessage spam made up more than 40 percent of all mobile spam, anti-spam researcher Tom Landesman wrote in Cloudmark's quarterly report published earlier this week. In the report, Landesman confirmed his suspicion that the spam came from China after buying the advertised designer-label knock-offs. They were all shipped from China. Landesman began tracking spam on iMessage -- Apple's proprietary messaging service that connects Macs to iPhones and iPads -- after seeing a sudden rise on the company's internal spam-tracking charts last year. By its peak in August and September, the iMessage spam deluge made up "several million iMessages," accounting for nearly one out of every five iMessages sent between mk hamilton black friday July and September, Landesman told CNET. The iMessage spam Cloudmark found "debunks claims that iMessage messaging is more resistant to spam," than its competitors, Landesman told CNET. Last year, the US Federal Trade Commission cracked down on 29 alleged spammers charged with sending more than 180 million unwanted text messages designed to trick people into handing over personal information. Spammers are flocking to alternative text messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Snapchat and WeChat because they don't need to use specialized software or other equipment to send spam. Even better: Such services don't charge spammers a fee for texting. Research firm Analysys Mason estimates more than 10.3 trillion messages were sent from these services in 2013, and expects that to rise to more than 37.8 trillion messages in 2018. 

Despite a parade of disappointing headlines coming out of the sector in recent weeks, it's not all bad for investors who want to buy retail stocks ahead of the holidays. Nomura analyst Simeon Siegel on Tuesday identified three brands the firm thinks provide the best opportunity in retail for the remainder of the year, which promises a competitive environment with huge pressure to keep up promotions despite leaner inventories. Among his coverage universe, Siegel named the firm's best ideas for the end of the year as: Michael Kors: Expectations are low at the affordable luxury brand, which has been pegged by analysts as nearing its maturity in the U.S. Siegel said the Street is already pricing in contraction in the company's gross margins, which have contributed to about a 35 percent decrease in its share price since the stock hit a peak above $100 earlier this year. Similar to Kors, investors are already pricing in gross margin contraction at the parent company of Chico's, White House Black Market and Boston Proper, which came largely as a result of heavy promotional activity. The company's shares are down about 7 percent compared with one year ago. Similar to Kors, investors are already pricing in gross margin contraction at the parent company of Chico's, White House Black Market and Boston Proper, which came largely as a result of heavy promotional activity. The company's shares are down about 7 percent compared with one year ago. As consumers continue to seek out deals, discount retailers are also expected to ring in big bucks this holiday. The National Retail Federation said in its annual consumer spending survey that the channel will once again be the top place for consumers to spend this holiday, followed by department stores. People poke fun at "man-purses," but at least a guy with one has chosen to carry it, as opposed to the "my-girlfriend-is-using-the-bathroom-and-I-have-to-hold-her-purse" purse. If you're a relationship rookie, like I once was, you might not realize that these handbags are too precious to touch the surface of the earth — you can't just put a handbag on the ground, like a gym bag. Ha! No, sir. That would get you killed. You have no choice but to hold it. Fortunately, I've developed some simple solutions that will make your brief time as a Michael Kors 
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