I had been planning on heading to Las Vegas in February anyway, and if I went on a specific weekend I qualified to get a D&B handbag free. I don't carry a hand bag/purse, I carry a backpack. However since it, as well as the accomodations, were free I keyed in on that weekend. I had to order it, as it turned out. When it arrived I was surprised that it is tiny. It is real leather, though. As I took it out of the box my thought was 'I bet they get $50 for this thing in the D&G store'. It had a retail tag on it, and when I checked it, the retail was $98! It is a nice bag for the few times I need to dress up from my usual aging hippie look, I guess. It did occurr to me to sell it on EBay, but I decided to keep it for myself because I don't have a girly handbag and there are times it would be nice to have one.