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Is there a name for those little squarish bags with enormous wide luggage straps?

23 replies

MonBlu · 22/02/2025 07:25

Not square - rectangular. Little brick shaped bags, often in a fairly neutral colour with a wide luggage strap style strap in brighter colours.

They're popular with young teens around here and I'm trying to get one for a gift but I'm not sure of brand or what to search.

Any ideas?

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Wilma55 · 22/02/2025 07:27

Camera bag?

MonBlu · 22/02/2025 07:29

Is that what they're called, or are you wondering if it's an actual camera bag?

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SundayChilling · 22/02/2025 07:29

PomPom London - that sort of bag?

WhereAreWeNow · 22/02/2025 07:29

Sounds like a camera bag

Peclet · 22/02/2025 07:30

Yea to a camera bag.

MonBlu · 22/02/2025 07:31

SundayChilling · 22/02/2025 07:29

PomPom London - that sort of bag?

Yes, that sort of thing (perhaps not that sort of price for a tween though).

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SoScarletItWas · 22/02/2025 07:31

Cross body camera bag.

MonBlu · 22/02/2025 07:32

Lol - I'm now Googling camera bag and it's suggesting bags in which to keep my Nikon...

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TheChosenTwo · 22/02/2025 07:33

Yea that shape and size is called a camera bag.
I had a lovely Kate Spade one but the quality wasn’t as good as I’d hoped. I noticed Oliver Bonas had some in not that long ago.

MonBlu · 22/02/2025 07:33

SoScarletItWas · 22/02/2025 07:31

Cross body camera bag.

Ah ha! This works. Cross body camera bag.

Thank you Stylistas. Sorted.

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MissAtomicBomb1 · 22/02/2025 08:35

MonBlu · 22/02/2025 07:25

Not square - rectangular. Little brick shaped bags, often in a fairly neutral colour with a wide luggage strap style strap in brighter colours.

They're popular with young teens around here and I'm trying to get one for a gift but I'm not sure of brand or what to search.

Any ideas?

Where I live they are worn solely by 40+ women.
I don't think teens would be seen dead in them!

KookyPeachViewer · 22/02/2025 09:39

MissAtomicBomb1 · 22/02/2025 08:35

Where I live they are worn solely by 40+ women.
I don't think teens would be seen dead in them!

Yeah i was gonna say I see them on M&S, Next, Fat Face and WhiteStuff

boulevardofbrokendreamss · 22/02/2025 10:28

Has she specifically asked for one? No young person wears them here.

scanni · 22/02/2025 10:36

boulevardofbrokendreamss · 22/02/2025 10:28

Has she specifically asked for one? No young person wears them here.

This. They are middle aged women bag, not young teen.

BangingOn · 22/02/2025 15:45

Alice’s Wonders have a good range, if I’m understanding the style you mean, and sell different colour straps separately. Around here they are worn by older women though, so I might not have the right style in mind.

Laszlomydarling · 22/02/2025 16:30

Ollie and Nic are lovely bags and reasonable prices

Ankhmo · 22/02/2025 17:17

College girls near me all seem to have fabric / leather / puffy type crescent shape bags they wear up almost under arm pit. Camera bags insert are worn by women in big puffy coats, often walking a dog.

Bjorkdidit · 22/02/2025 17:26

When I got mine I came to the conclusion that many places were buying the bags and straps wholesale and putting them together themselves, with some possibly putting their own branding on.

Nothing wrong with that, but don't assume that one that appears to be from a naice independent 'Clara's Lovely Things' boutique is any better quality than one from Amazon at a third of the price. It could well be exactly the same.

Helpagirlout222 · 22/02/2025 17:30

Teen and tween daughters here and they flat out refuse to use a bag, if they did it would not be one like their mum's!
Oliver Bonas have some cheaper ones OP if you definitely decide to get one!

KnutsfordCityLimits · 22/02/2025 17:48

Funny you should mention that, I've not seen them at all in my town in the Midlands, but I'm on the south coast at the moment and I've noticed loads of women with them today, but not young women!

Bouledeneige · 22/02/2025 17:49

Marc Jacob's camera bag?

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