To provide a handbag and a handbag used in common as a safety hood which can be mass-produced and which protects the head safely and instantly when used as the safety hood in a technique of using the handbag as the handbag normally but as the safety hood in emergency.

In the handbag (a) where an opening part 5 of a housing part is closed in an openable and closable manner with a fastener and grips are arranged at upper ends, a female hook-and-loop fastener 6 and a male hook-and-loop fastener 7 are provided symmetrically facing each other in one horizontal line at the lower parts of the inner side faces. The handbag (A) used in common as the safety hood is obtained by arranging a pair of the handbags (a) with their inner side faces facing each other, arranging a protector 8 having a folding part which can be folded into four between both of the inner side faces and connecting the protector to the inner side faces on both ends.