Expandable purse

Abstract

An expandable purse has a lower inner compartment open-able from the purse's bottom. The compartment contains an auxiliary bag that is attached by an edge of its bottom to an inside edge of the inner compartment. This allows the auxiliary bag to be extended and brought up around the purse with the purse sitting upright within the auxiliary bag and with the opening of the purse accessible within the auxiliary bag.

It is claimed: 
     
         1 - 10 . (canceled) 
     
     
         11 . The container of claim  6  in combination with a pair of shoes. 
     
     
         12 . The combination of  claim 11  where the shoes are light-weight shoes. 
     
     
         13 . The combination of  11  where the shoes are sandals. 
     
     
         14 . The container of claim  10  where the secondary bag is of sufficient volume and shape to hold a pair of high-heeled shoes. 
     
     
         15 . A method of storing and carrying shoes in a handbag having a bottom and an openable top comprising:
 a) opening a hidden compartment in the bottom of a handbag from the outside of the handbag;   b) extending an auxiliary bag from the compartment with the auxiliary bag's opening facing downward, its bottom being secured within the compartment;   b) turning the auxiliary bag inside out and pulling it over the handbag proper;   c) placing a pair of shoes in the auxiliary bag; and   d) accessing the top of the handbag through the top of the auxiliary bag.   
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 15  further comprising removing a pair of shoes from the handbag, the shoes being lighter and flatter than the shoes placed in the auxiliary bag. 
     
     
         17 . A flexible hand-carried container comprising:
 (a) a primary bag with an upper primary opening, the primary opening providing accessibility to a primary content-holding compartment of the primary bag, the primary bag having an auxiliary compartment accessible from a lower, external region on a side opposite to the side of the upper primary opening, the auxiliary compartment extending upward and behind the primary content-holding compartment;   (b) an auxiliary bag within the auxiliary compartment; the auxiliary bag, located where, when released from the compartment, its open end is disposed downward;    the auxiliary bag being secured to the primary bag in along one edge of the bottom of the floor of the auxiliary bag;    the auxiliary bag being flexible to an effective degree to be readily turned up, around, and inside-out to encompass the primary bag, leaving the primary bag upright relative to the auxiliary bag's inside-out opening and with the primary bag's upper opening facing in a common direction as the auxiliary bag's opening, providing direct accessibility to the contents of the primary bag when any flaps or closures of the primary bag are in an open state;   where the relative sizes and physical relationship of the primary bag and the expanded auxiliary bag being such that space of a size of at least a pair of high heeled shoes remains in the auxiliary bag next to the primary bag not requiring use of space above the primary bag; and further,   where the auxiliary compartment extends upward behind the primary content holding compartment of the primary bag to the extent of having a height and width of a substantially similar size as the measurement of the primary content holding compartment.