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At last! Fashion is making bags for women who work, not just ladies who lunch | Jessica Cartner-Morley on fashion

My work bag is closer in scale to a laundry basket than the tiny handbags clutched by models

I have quite often felt like a no-hope outcast from glamour, on the grounds that the outfits fashion celebrates on catwalks or billboards or red carpets feature a handbag no bigger than a hardback novel, while the bag I carry to the office and back every day is closer in scale to a laundry basket. Those generic cotton tote bags, for carrying the returns parcel you need to drop off and the dishwasher tablets you need to buy, your extra cardigan or gym trainers, are an unavoidable part of modern life. Oh, and don’t get me started on the evening bags we are supposed to buy, many of which are so laughably minuscule that I can only assume everyone else leaves their doors unlocked and their keys at home when they go to parties.

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