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According to PopSugar (and fashion bloggers, generally) the Chloe Drew bag is the “It” bag this fall. It’s very pretty. I can’t afford it. And even if I could, what I suspect fits inside it is, like, a tweezer and a credit card, as opposed to the thirty-pound assortment of diapers/wipes/bottles/toy cars/Red Bulls that I drag with me everywhere I go.
(I also suspect that I’m not exactly who that particular item is marketed to. I think it’s marketed to that girl with the wedge shoes pictured above. You know, the one who has so much money to spend on Chloe Drew bags that placing shoes on white sheets seems like a fine idea. (I’m joking; I totally do that too. Because white sheets make the best backdrop and bloggers be crazy.))
(P.S. It also comes in a mini version if somehow $1,750 for a bag sounds more reasonable to you than $2,100.)
Fortunately, according to a ShopStyle email I just got, the Chloe Drew bag isn’t the only “It” bag.
There are four!
Oh, good.
(Just to be clear, I seriously do not think you should purchase anything at all because anyone, PopSugar or blogger or otherwise, has declared said thing an “It!” item. I just think it’s a funny thing to say, and am always pretty happy to look at bags, so.)
Let’s take a gander at these four bags (which are actually four bag categories, which is even better because I can give you a nice big range of prices to pick from).
| The Bucket |
Buckets are great. They hold way more than you’d think, and have a cool, slouchy, luxe-casual vibe. I put one faux-leather version up there just in case you want to give the look a shot super-inexpensively, but my opinion is that this is one piece where you want to go for the good (read: expensive) leather, because cheap leather just doesn’t gather as nicely, and will look kind of stiff…which isn’t the point.
| The Blush |
I’m going to have to take a pass on this particular trend, because for real: a pale-pink bag would last about thirty seconds in my household before being destroyed from various flying foodstuffs and bodily fluids, but if you have the sort of calm, elegant lifestyle where you can keep a bag like this clean, go for it. (Or spend $38 on it, as in that oversize clutch version up there, because then a little spill won’t make you cry.)
| The Rocker |
Alright, so I would really like to take that Lanvin home with me and snuggle in bed with it at night. But this is one style where you can spend a little less, because looking a little beat-up is totally fine…sort of the goal, even. Suggestion: try hunting studded, rocker-style bags down at thrift stores; years ago, I found a Thomas Wylde for $20 at a Canadian resale boutique (also I look like I am three years old in the photos I took with the bag, from wayyyy back when I first started blogging and did not yet know, gratis of Kim K, that when taking a selfie one should look at the camera lens, not at oneself in a mirror).
| The Fringe |
Obbbbbviously this look is my favorite. And nobody does it better than YSL, but it’s also everywhere (even, weirdly, on suitcases), so there’s really no excuse not to try it.
It’s (almost) fall! Buy a bag. Buy four! The people who figure “It” out say you should.
