American designer James Piatt has created leather handbags that have Chinese finger trap puzzles as their ‘handles’.
Called ‘Finger Trap’, these whimsical accessories use the pull of the weight of the bags to tighten onto the fingers.
To remove the bags from fingers, its ‘wearer’ has to push the both ends of the finger trap inwards—so that the mesh gets relaxed and releases the fingers.
“The finger trap is often used as a metaphor for a problem that can be overcome by relaxing,” Piatt wrote as the bags’ descriptions.
Although impractical, the Finger Trap bags not only make for a humorous and interesting conversation starter, but also make you look like the cousin of Edward Scissorhands, with the surname “Baghands”.
Piatt’s purses come in two sizes, large and small; the larger Finger Trap bag has three finger traps (to be carried using three fingers) and a shoulder strap, while the small purse comes with one finger trap.
[via James Piatt]