Where to get a good travel bag/ day bag?

[madison avenue]

Where can I find a nice travel bag . Something that is also easy to carry around all day long so I can put my phone wallet, Big Camera ( I will be taking pictures where ever I am visiting) A web site or a store in NYC would be great here is a very bad picture of somethig that I am talking about.

But nothing too colorful like this just a solid color or two tone brown/ Baje

 

[madison avenue]

Any one?

 

[Cornellian]

Check out:

http://www.chapmanbags.com/ChapmanBa...Shoulder+Bags/

or

http://www.filson.com/product/index....entPage=family

 

[SoCal2NYC]

1st floor at Barneys?

 

[GuidoWongolini]

After years of thinking that I will find the "one" bag, I realise like shoes, shirts, watches & you know the drift..

Does not exist, buy use, & will always find something right but then there is something wrong as well.. So the hunt continues.

What I have found is that I have different bags for different outings & then it depends on my mood & what I am wearing..

 

[madison avenue]

Originally Posted by SoCal2NYC

1st floor at Barneys?

Mucho expensivito I believe but good call I didn't even bother to check yet. To be honest I want something like a Birkin travel bag but def am not shoping in that price range!

 

[SoCal2NYC]

I thought you lived on Madison and had an X5?

 

[dl20]

I looked for years and finally settled on a tan leather bag I found at a leather shop in Florence. Construction is good compared to most of the garbage there and has held up fairly well.

dl

 

[Roger]

Well, I'm partial to leather bags, and I quite like small- to moderately-sized doctor's bags (for a day or weekend bag). I also prefer to have the handles close to the bag, rather than longer handles (like the kind on women's bags) or a shoulder strap. Here's a very nice doctor's bag for an excellent price. The smaller one at 15" x 11" x 8" (and a very reasonable $69.95) would suit me best:

http://www.victoriantradingco.com/st.../1a/i1242.html

On the other hand, these ciabattas from Floto Imports (they're on eBay from time to time or can be bought direct), 14" x 9" x 8" (and thus smaller than they look in the pictures), for $200, are soft leather (not like a hard-sided doctor's bag) and attractive:

http://www.flotoimports.com/Chiabatta-handbag.html

Here are a couple of slightly larger bags from Leathershop.it (who have some lovely Italian leather bags):

http://cgi.ebay.com/p4040-PELLEVERA-...QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/p4042-PELLEVERA-...742.m153.l1262

And finally, another very nice Italian leather shop, The European Store, that has lots of wonderful bags, including these two beauties--a smaller doctor's bag (at about 14" x 8.25" x 7") and a duffle bag (15.25" x 6.25" x 11"). I have their larger travel bag, the 'Oslo', and the soft Italian leather is particularly nice. Be sure to check out all their bags and those from Leathershop.it:

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-ITALIAN-LEAT...742.m153.l1262

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-ITALIAN-LEAT...742.m153.l1262

 

[LabelKing]

I like the Hermes Haut a Corriores, which is basically a very large travel Birkin bag.

 

[Frank Rizzo]

I bought a Fossil messenger bag and I love it. It looks very casual because it's a brown leather bag, but I still use it when I'm wearing dark suits. I don't care, I love it.

 

[rach2jlc]

Depending on your budget, obviously living in NYC would present almost limitless possibilities at all price levels. Online, you can always try bluefly, or the Saks, Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf websites, eluxury, etc. Here are a few possibilities I found in a cursory internet search (the first is from the LV website, the other two on bluefly): Epi sac plat:

Hermes "Victoria:"

Originally Posted by LabelKing

I like the Hermes Haut a Corriores, which is basically a very large travel Birkin bag.
Me, too.

Originally Posted by SoCal2NYC

I thought you lived on Madison and had an X5?
Lol; no...no, Socal, he meant Madison CIRCLE, a street in suburban Hoboken, NJ.

 

[Matt]

I really like this bag LuckyStrike posted in a luggage thread recently

Originally Posted by Lucky Strike

 

[JayJay]

Originally Posted by m@T

I really like this bag LuckyStrike posted in a luggage thread recently
I like this bag a lot. Hopefully Lucky will provide details of the brand and size.

 

[Lucky Strike]

Ah, dang, sorry - I have little information about it. It's probably 1950s, and was givrn to me by an acquaintance when we handled his late uncle's estate. (The uncle was a high-end antiques dealer, so there were quite a few goodies of the same sort. I still have a few Jermyn St shirts and a couple of Burberry macs from him.) Another pic; M@t; did you try to have one made in VN?