Bag ladies of the fashionable sort: make time to stop by The Store in Lake Highlands, in Northlake Shopping Center at Northwest Highway and Ferndale, for the neighborhood boutique’s Vera Bradley party all day today, Thursday, Jan. 13 from 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

The event includes giveaways and prize drawings to showcase the spring collection’s four new colors: boysenberry, blue lagoon, folkloric and lemon parfait.

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The Store owner Cheryl Calvin says the Vera Bradley company will not allow vendors to discuss the collection until 10 days before it launches so that customers will be surprised. The Store: 214.553.8850, thestoreinlh.com.