Please help me find a bag

[janeite]

I am so not a shoes or bags person but I really need a new bag and am hoping some of you might help me please.

It needs to be:

• quite small - big enough for classroom keys, a couple of pens etc but not much else;
• a long very slim strap so I can wear it across the body all day and stop losing said classroom keys, pens etc;
• slim enough to fit inside work tote to go to work and back;
• not expensive (in fact, cheap).

Thanks ever so.

wow- so many responses....

Do you do leather, Mrs Veggie?

this fits your criteria but had a bad review.

nice but too expensive???

A selection from TKMaxx

Am a bad veggie nowadays and 'do leather', yep.

Thank you Angrypixie - some of the TKMaxx ones loo good and I like the style of the Debenhams one too. I don't like your 2nd one as it looks a bit fussy.

Any more please folks?

looK - am marking poetry essays and typing at the same time!

I would say TKMxx too- I have had some really good bags from there in the past (radley and coccinelle mostly)

I've just bought the Lana Bodybag (!) from www.whitestuff.co.uk, it fits your description and looks much nicer irl.

Will brave TKMaxx. The White Stuff one looks too big tbh but thanks anyway. I only need a tiny one.

But this whitestuff bag is gorgeous

Yes - that one is lovely.

Next have some good bags at the moment here.

WOO-HOO I found the perfect bag tra la la la la

(Janeite As a quick aside -we just finished the book in your name. Love John Burningham. Have you read Courtney?)

Now I didn't say it was perfect. To be perfect it would be black, not brown and it would be on offer just to me at a tenner!

I like this one on the Next site but maybe a bit big?

Not read Courtney, no. But John Patrick Norman is the coolest boy in school! My girls have long grown out of picture books but I couldn't resist the little name change.

Noooo to the next bag - just say no to tassels!

Oh I was thinking that the tassle would be easy to cut off.

I liked the colour of the burgundy one.

I think the tassle would be easy to get rid of but personally I like a bag with a tassle.

I thought the coin bag looked smaller than you needed (huffs).

I've had a few bags that size and they're cute, but they don't half bulge once your purse, phone, keys and lippy are wedged inside.

Burgundy's a great colour but don't they look a bit like despatch riders' bags?

I just need to be able to fit keys and a couple of pens in. Might have a look at it anyway. Thanks.

Ooh look at this one - what do you think? Would prefer cheaper though.