One thing I have noticed about carrying in a purse and going out to events with friends, there is a tendency for women to set their purse down and walk around. It's probably not smart to do that in some environments. If everyone else has their purse sitting down in a corner or next to a chair, and one person is carrying their purse around everywhere they go, it looks awkward. My wife has a nice purse set up to carry a pistol and magazine in a separate compartment and it holds it well, but the handles are just regular size, it's too small to put it up on her shoulder. It's not so much an issue at some restaurants where she can sit it in the booth between her and the wall. But it can be difficult unless she wants to let it sit someplace semi-unsecured. A while back at the barber shop, we were both getting our hair cut at the same time and her purse was sitting behind the closest regular chair to where she was sitting in the barber chair. Someone else came in and sat down in the chair. She was done before I was, and it was her turn to write the check for the haircuts, and the customer sitting in the chair tried to be helpful and hand her purse to her. Obviously, it was heavier than expected, and the person looked at her kinda strange as they handed it to her. I wasn't too keen on the situation, but we knew the person and knew they were not a threat even if they were not expecting to pick up a purse with a pistol in it.
