Bags & Wallets Which Make Me Coo
[ 27 February 2007 ]
I usually loathe backpacks, but Hideo Wakamatsu’s Randoseru backpack has changed all that. Apparently it is in the style of bags which Japanese children wear to school. I love it! It’s so sleek but the shape is so odd, & it looks like it would fit absolute piles of stuff in it. (I like my ‘stuff’ on me at all times.) It is not cheap & quite frankly I don’t know how well I would be able to work a backpack into my wardrobe, but it sure is cute.
Janine King’s Inked laptop bag. This is also available in brown. It’s a bit SuicideGirls-esque but I like the loud print & the subject matter. Naked girls, yay!
Heart tote bag with removable laptop sleeve & matching makeup bag & mirror! Sure, it’s $175 but it’s really, really cool. It’s hot pink & vegan! I can’t believe how many different things come with it — I adore a complete set. I also think it would hold a massive amount of stuff. I can’t vouch for the quality, but I assume it’s pretty good.
Fawn vinyl messenger bag — dark red & a miniature price of $45. It’s funny how these things come into fashion — whoever thought owls, squid & deer would be trendy? But they are, so if you “liked them before they were cool”, you’re in consumer heaven.
Helena Garcia for Tinymeat wallet — $14. So so cute. Apparently this wallet tells a story about octopus fritters, or something, which is some kind of delicacy in Japan. Whatev! It’s great.
Squid folding wristlet/wallet. $32 & way too awesome. Apparently a few days ago a giant squid washed up in New Zealand — if they made squid rings from it they would be as big as tractor tyres! Oh my god! I don’t like eating squid but I think they look pretty neat. Which is why I am glad this has an image of a squid as opposed to being made of meat. Yes.
Valley of the Dolls clutch. Best fabric ever! $20. Couple with some medical apparatus, a big wig & white shoes. Perfection.
Extra For Experts:
What is in the average Japanese person’s bag?
What’s in your bag? — the Flickr group. I would like to do posts about what’s in my bag but I don’t leave the house very much. Seriously I am actually a hermit in a cave.
A handbag full of personality & an article of questionable merit.
Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala
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i actually have a tinymeat wallet i bought months ago – its really cute, but my IDs stick to the inside of the vinyl lining. sometimes, i have to wrestle to get them out.
oh! i found one!
this is the tinymeat wallet i have – except for mine is in pink.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5414071
Aw, so cute!
ha ha we love that you love the randoseru! They certainly can fit alot of stuff in them, the weight of the kiddies backpacks here is out of control!
We went to a new randoseru store the other day in a quaint little suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo. There were barriers at the door, people were lining up for these things and rightly so – they were the hottest kids backpacks I have ever seen in gorgeous colours of pink, red, purple and blue.
Most of the ones you see the kids sporting here are black or blue but you can buy some awesome nylon rain covers for them with all kinds of anime and kawaii things splashed over them!
When are you swimming across the seas to come check them out for yourself??
Wishes from Tokyo
TM xx