A good few years ago a friend of mine actually bought me a purse as a birthday present. Me being the Oxford dictionary definition of "bloke" I suppose it was all for a bit of a giggle, and to be blunt we'd always do silly stuff like this to each other all the time. The purse itself was overly feminine as was decorate with sugar sweet little animal designs and to be perfectly honest, i loved the bloody thing. As I happen to have a fondness for cute little things like that anyways, and frankly, the general layout of some of the pockets and hidey-holes within said purse were actually practical. And I used it for years until it eventually fell to pieces, literally...
Now I have a much more bland and masculine looking one. It's bulky, makes a terrible bulge in my pocket [trouser or coat] and generally has a rather uninspired design on it compared to it's rather flamboyant predecessor.
I think what I'm trying to get at here, is that if you actually find it both useful and appealing you yourself, I really wouldn't get too cut up about what other people think about what you're holding your loose change in really.
That and the purse actually made a rather neat little conversational piece. People would often ask me if that was a purse and why I was carrying it. Simply put, I'd just say it was awesome~
