Bagging A Bargain
Strap-free document cases seem to have struck a chord with readers earlier this week.
Everyone’s looking for something a little different and some commenters are even contemplating fashioning their own out of sweat, leather and sturdy sewing machines to avoid unsatisfying e-bay investigations or three hundred dollar price tags.
(I’m impressed!)
But if you’re broke and lazy and man enough for mass-market, these warm and woolly cases from O’Hanlon Mills make a strong case for zipping up your essentials come September. At thirteen inches wide, they’re the ideal form factor, and for twenty-four dollars they’re, if nothing else, price-perfect as a fill in ’til you sight or stitch yourself your dream case.
Best of all, their flannelly fabrication adds instant fall flare to your post-Labor Day outfits, when it’s (regrettably) still too hot to slip into S.N.S. Herning sweaters and thick, tweedy trousers.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:47 am
I bought an old leather strapless folio at a stoop sale in Brooklyn Heights about 15 years ago. You’ve inspired me to use it! (It has been an objet in my home this whole time.) The owner’s husband had it made for her as a gift when she got her masters degree, but she said she’d had it too long and sold it to me for $10. The leather has a beautiful patina.