Vera Bradley's Folkloric Inspiration

I saw one of my friends today, I almost fell over when I saw her tote. I said, "I have fabric that looks almost just like that!". When she left I went into the basement and took it out of the stash:



This is her tote on the bottom.




My fabric is from the mid 1960s. I am in no way accusing anyone of any copying, I just run across these sort of similarites all the time. Everything gets recycled :)