Help please oh ye stylish ones - I need a new bag!

[Roseylea]

Yes...what I need is a big bag, big enough to carry A4 papers / newspapers / a few paperbacks / packed lunch, as well as all the other detrius of my life. I like things that are a bit individual and I usually keep things forvever once I decide I like them (such as dh...)

I am also thinking about getting a new winter coat this season, but if I don't, the one I'll be wearing is a lovely narrow cord chocolate brown colour. So has anyone seen any wonderful bags? Any idea where to start looking?

I shall watch with interest - am in need of just such the same. I don't even know where to go and look except M&S, and have rejected their stock already ...

i like this, but maybe too small?

Quite nice, SEA, but yeah, poss too small. (To give you some idea of how desperate this need is, last term I was reduced to taking a Sainsbury's jute So Organics bag into work because that's the only thing that could fit all my stuff...)

Rosey - Tesco do a nice jute bag with lady birds on if this would be slightly less shaming

Go to TK Maxx - gorgeous bags in every colour under the sun - big and small - designer or not - at ridiculous prices

A lovely burnt orange or dark limey green would be lovely with your choccy brown coat

Next is always good for non-leather ones round the £30ish mark - I have me eye on this one as a changing bag - or there's this one in tan or another red one.
This one might take A4 too.

Red Direct do good leather ones

luvverly

Hmmm thanks for that! I like all of them! The Next ones are v. affordable, so that's probably going to do it for me...
Thanks again!

Mulberry Bayswater if you want to spoil yourself...budget?

Oooh I'd love to! Except that, knowing the school I work in, it'd be nicked and sold on E-bay before the half term holiday...