Scorps - aha, now then
I lead a double life, d'you see. Part mad-haired long-skirted Tennyson spouting student layabout, part legal-related professional(ish) working girl. Also, I'm poor. Pandering to the latter part of my life (which, by the way, I loathe with a passion I can barely articulate) I bought a Reiss bag in very soft nude (slightly flesh-toned) leather. Gold brass fixings, long straps + solid handle, deep soft pleats, etc. No doubt highly suited to a moderately successful city girl who wears suits from Austin Reed, but so NOT ME I can't stand it. However as it cost me English farthings, I FORCE myself to use it. The whole fucking thing dictates what I wear. Today I carried it whilst wearing a tailored camel-coloured trench. PUKE PUKE PUKE. I feel so awkward I literally walk around blushing. Plus, tailored trench + smart bag looks preposterous with a floor length skirt, brogues, and hair birds could cheerfully nest in.
I want something ... something in battered chestnut coloured leather. Something poised exactly halfway between a satchel and a tote. Something that says, "Fuck you and your mortgage: I know how to use a gerund." Something that smells faintly of dust, carpets, Scotch, and paperbacks. Oh, and that costs about a tenner.
I do have one of these but you can't sling it over your shoulder so you get blistery fingers...