In search of the perfect bag
Posted by Smitha | Filed under design, personal, products
I’m on a mission to find The Perfect Messenger Bag. I’ve never been a purse girl–I bought a black one at Target I use every so often, but it just doesn’t hold enough to make me happy. I also don’t use leather products.
I’ve been eyeing this one for a while…
It’s the Kyoto Messenger Bag at ShanaLogic, which is perfect. Chocolate brown is my current color addiction, and anyone who knows me knows that I love sakura motifs like this and favor simplicity in many aspects of my life, including visual aesthetics. However, I only just realized that the sakura isn’t screenprinted but stitched on, and I don’t want the flowers to tear off over the months/years this bag gets slung around.
While searching around, though (which is challenging, because searching for “sakura” brings up hits for several anime characters, and “cherry blossom” brings up all sorts of stuff, including lingerie on Amazon), I found something completely unrelated but totally fantastic:
In their spring 2008 Large Patterns collection, Noni Designs features this oven mitt design. How adorable is that? I know I’m totally contradicting my statement about preferring simple things, but to quote Nathan Lane’s character in The Birdcage, “One does want a touch of color.” You really can’t say no to a splash of bright cheer like this. But if only I knew how to knit…
I’m also wondering if I should just get a standard brown canvas bag and paint a sakura motif on it myself. My coworker has been extolling the virtues of Timbuk2, and for a bag that’s supposed to last for years, the price is pretty reasonable. I just wonder if I’ll screw up on my paint job and end up defacing it for life, even though I know myself well enough to know I will have very carefully planned the design out, crafted it to scale, chosen the paint colors and type carefully, and charted it all out step by agonizing step…only to lose my grip on the brush and have it slip and dash a garish streak of pink across the face of the bag. I’m not particularly spontaneous, nor do I tend to decorate my own things that often, preferring to buy things with well-made designs that I already like.
Anyway, the search is on! Hopefully I can find something that hits the spot.
