Editing Suitcase (section)

==As a symbol and in popular culture==
[[File:'Far Out' Case.jpg|thumb|left|175px|A suitcase covered in luggage tags, which were placed on customers' suitcases by hotels from the 1900s to the 1960s as a promotional tactic.]]

Suitcases became culturally significant around the 1920s, when they made appearances in books like the ''[[The Hardy Boys|Hardy Boys]]'' series and in films like the [[silent film]] ''[[The Woman in the Suitcase]]''. Daniel A. Gross of ''[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]]'' described suitcases at the time as "a literary symbol for both mobility and mystery—perhaps filled with gold, photographs, or simply a stranger's possessions".<ref name="smithsonian" /> In the mid-20th century, Mexican laborers who worked in the United States would often return home with suitcases as a status symbol to prove that they had become "cosmopolitan men".<ref name="tlhistory">{{cite web |last1=McHugh |first1=Jess |title=A Brief History of the Modern Suitcase |url=https://www.travelandleisure.com/style/travel-bags/history-of-suitcase |website=[[Travel + Leisure]] |access-date=28 November 2022 |language=en |date=8 December 2016}}</ref> From the 1900s to the 1960s, hotels placed [[Luggage label|luggage labels]] on customers' suitcases to advertise themselves, with illustrations inspired by travel posters of the time.<ref name="barnebys">{{cite web |title=The Golden Age of Travel and the History of Luggage Tags |url=https://www.barnebys.com/blog/the-golden-age-of-travel-and-the-history-of-luggage |website=[[Barnebys]] |access-date=28 November 2022 |date=20 December 2021}}</ref>

The supposedly feminine nature of the wheeled suitcase was mocked in the 1984 film ''[[Romancing the Stone]]'', where [[Kathleen Turner]]'s character, Joan Wilder, brings her wheeled suitcase to the jungle, which bothers [[Michael Douglas]]'s character, Jack T. Colton, who is attempting to fend off evil.<ref name="guardianwheel" /> Soo Youn of ''[[National Geographic]]'' included the suitcase, specifically the addition of wheels to it, on his list of inventions that changed travel forever, while ''SmarterTravel''{{'}}s Caroline Costello listed the wheeled suitcase as one of the best travel inventions of all time.<ref name="natgeoinventions" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Costello |first1=Caroline |via=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |title=10 best travel inventions of all time |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/10-best-travel-inventions-time/story?id=15874702 |website=SmarterTravel |access-date=29 November 2022 |language=en |date=8 March 2012}}</ref> Of the wheeled suitcase, [[Ian Jack]] wrote for ''[[The Guardian]]'' that "outside the cheap flight, no other modern development has made travel easier".<ref>{{cite web |author1=[[Ian Jack|Jack, Ian]] |title=What was life like before luggage had wheels? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/19/what-was-life-life-before-luggage-had-wheels |website=The Guardian |access-date=12 December 2022 |language=en |date=19 July 2014}}</ref>