A Meditation on the Tote Bag.


I had thought that 2009 would be the year that I acquire a practical leather purse, like a real, grown-ass woman. However, it is currently 3.05 pm on December 12, 2009, and, thus far, I am sans beautiful handbag. Perhaps I'm still a few years out from genuine womanhood and pursehood? Maybe I just think tote bags are way awesomer?

What I really, really, really want is a Fjallraven Kanken backpack in Uncle Blue or Purple (OR BOTH!?), but that seems about a thousand steps in the wrong direction in terms of sophistication.

Now, I'm hauling all of my shit around in this Sanna Annukka tote from Rachel. At first, I wasn't particulary jazzed about it; it was all bright and website-bearing and big. But, since, the silkscreen has faded a bit, and it's grown on me.

I'm also pretty madly in love with the following:

Pocket Tote in Glacier, Shabd
(I also still desperately want one of her leotards, but that's a conversation for another day.)

Black Rose Army Tote Bag, Lover

Hand-Printed Tote Bag, Mociun + Corwin

Maybe I should just get all of them and wear them all together at the same time. Everyday. Forever.
Why not yell it off the rooftops: 'I love a good tote bag! I'm not refined enough for a real lady-purse!'?

Or, maybe this is the answer: A HYBRID MUFF-MITT-PLAID-CLUTCH-PURSE-AWESOME-THINGY from Rachel Comey. A jack-of-all-purses, if you will.
Insies.


5 comments:

Megan said...

I KNOW!!!!! I thought this year maybe I'd buy a real live leather bag, and be a real live girl, but I think it's the prices that are preventing that from happening...and I DIG that Rachel Comey muff-in (my new word)! though I'm holding out for one of her bags from next season...if I have $$$ by then.......

and a Shabd leotard is a wise investment!!!
I'm gonna buy myself one of their spandex bike shorts one of these days...haaaah

Megan said...

and I second that: tote bags are awesome

that's what I still carry around, since it's the only thing big enough to carry all of my crap around

Hello Lindello said...

dude. that RC mitt/purse is GENIUS.

i know what you mean about getting a big girl bag. i finally bought myself a leather marc jacobs last year with my work bonus. so worth it. although you can get like 30 cute totes for the price of one leather bag....

Grow Books Press said...

Oh my god, I LOVE the snake design!!!

Lindsay said...

Yeah, who am I trying to kid? Tote bags RULE. The End.