To provide a purse of smaller size to become thinner when folded.

A durable elastic sheet type purse A is composed of a rectangular purse body 2 to be folded double on the center line and tabs 3, 4 as extensions of both shorter ends of the purse body 2, to be folded inside and its lower edge sewed on along the longer edges of the body 2. As shown on the sketch, the tabs 3, 4 have a shape little shorter than to reach the center line of the purse body 2 and jointed together by sewing its lower edge onto respective reverse 6, 7 of the bottom edge of the purse body 2.