Choosing a handbag, we often judge it by materials, hardware fittings, feelings and inside fabric.  Except for those methods, we are able to distinguish with the following ways.

The first way is using your nose.  If the bag smelly, it’s absolutely not a good one.  Because bad leather has smell, besides a plenty of inferior gluewater are used in procedure.  Normally, high quality leather and gluewater do not have such smell.  Also, the gluewater is transparent. 

The second is the shape.  You may observe from some special part, such as symmetry, lid, arc part, etc.  When you take out the stuff in bag, the top-quality bag is still plump.

The weight is usually easy to be ignored.  Under normal circumstances, brass or copper is used as hardware while producing.  The bad quality bag made of some other metals normally is lighter than the good quality handbag.