Editing Suitcase (section)

===Late 19th century to mid-20th century: Beginnings===
[[File:Suitcase (AM 2001.25.958-6).jpg|thumb|A brown leather suitcase from the [[Auckland War Memorial Museum]] that belonged to a [[Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps|QAIMNS]] staff nurse during [[World War I]]]]

As [[Tourism#Mass tourism|mass tourism]] increased in popularity and travel became accessible to non-elites due to railways and cruise ships, the need for more practical luggage increased. In the late 19th century, the first luggage known as "suit cases" or "suit-cases", which were meant to carry dress suits without wrinkling them, came about.<ref name="tlhistory" /> Other terms used include "grip" or "gripsack", especially for small luggage.<ref name="grip def">{{cite book |title=The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English |editor1-first=Tom |editor1-last=Dalzell |editor2-first=Terry |editor2-last=Victor |date=November 27, 2014 |page=368 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781317625124 }}</ref> The earliest models of suitcases were invented by British businessmen, who used them to carry goods and clothing.<ref name="atlanticages" /> They were modeled after trunks and made by stretching leather, rubbery cloth, or wicker over a flat, rigid<ref name="barnebys" /> frame made of wood or steel with leather or brass caps on the corners and a handle on their long side, contrasting them with trunks, which had handles on their two shorter sides.<ref name="atlanticages">{{cite web |last1=Murphy |first1=Cullen |title=Luggage Through the Ages |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1986/06/luggage-through-the-ages/666523/ |website=[[The Atlantic]] |access-date=12 December 2022 |language=en |date=1 June 1986}}</ref> They typically had a compartment for shirts and a [[hat box]] on the inside.<ref name="smithsonian" /> Suitcases first started being manufactured alongside trunks by luggage companies such as the Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company, which would later be renamed [[Samsonite]].<ref name="foxhistory">{{cite web |last1=Bachelor |first1=Blane |title=The history of luggage |url=https://www.foxnews.com/travel/the-history-of-luggage |website=[[Fox News]] |access-date=28 November 2022 |date=24 March 2015}}</ref> They were initially considered a lesser alternative to trunks, as evidenced by North American travel catalogs from the turn of the 20th century advertising trunks much more prominently than suitcases.<ref name="smithsonian" />

Lightweight suitcases were mostly marketed at first toward women. In 1938, a weight limit of 40 pounds for checked bags was established in the United States, which led to the heavier leather model of suitcase being supplanted by lighter plastic and cardboard suitcases throughout the 1930s and 1940s.<ref name="telegraphhistory" /><ref name="smithsonian" /> German luggage company [[Rimowa]] built the first aluminum suitcase, which it started selling in 1950 with a grooved design inspired by the [[Junkers Ju 52]] airplane.<ref name="foxhistory" /> In Europe, [[Porter (carrier)|porter]]s were responsible for carrying train passengers' suitcases until around the middle of the 20th century, when they became less abundant.<ref name="guardianwheel" />