The black bag
“If it wasn't for smuggling they would have taken us to the cemetery”
On April 25th, Italy celebrates its liberation. This date, which does not represent the end of the Second World War, marks the victory of the Italian co-belligerent army, the partisans and the allied troops against the fascist dictatorship and Nazi domination on our territory. From April 25th 1945, the watchword was “surrender or perish” and soon after Italy would become a Republic .
Poshead as you well know it is #madeinrome and what is experienced in Italy on this occasion here in the capital, from where we write and where our unique and original words take shape bags with glasses , everything is more amplified. In addition to the inevitable military parade made of marches and tricolor arrows that whizz across the sky of the eternal city, in Rome the memories that have been handed down for generations and that are also alive thanks to auteur cinema, speak of a city now starving where the black market, called the black market , was the main form of sustenance for the population. Even the city at the time, in addition to having a clandestine black market everywhere, knew an official one which was located in Tor di Nona.
Rome must starve until it is liberated, Churchill.
The pressure on the city from the Allied landing at Nettuno was such that the black market became indispensable to the sustenance of the population; until then, rail transport allowed the exchange of goods and food rationing could still seem acceptable. From that moment on, however, the poor but also the rich were forced to resort to black market . The proximity of the city to the countryside helped the phenomenon of exchanges between basic necessities and anything else that could help support the family: linen, jewelry, books. black purses were those women so called because they represented those who illegally traded basic necessities. These heroines who often paid with their lives for the clandestine trade they practiced, were the protagonists of this phenomenon and the figures who managed to weave the networks of the underground market better than anyone else.
Today Poshead , in love with Rome and of Italy , wants to remember this slice of history and connect it to her work, to her passion - that of bags - to wish everyone a happy Liberation Day in honor of women and their accessory par excellence, a complement that accompanies the arm of every woman as a source of pride and not as a representation and/or means of clandestine trade.
Good riddance