I really like that bag you have pictured.
I love to look at bags, but the truth is my bag style has definitely narrowed in the past few years. I carry the grey Bao Bao most days — it’s easy to carry (often just on one shoulder but sometimes in full backpack mode for total hands free). durable, neutral, lightweight, can fit a lot if needed, and still gets compliments everywhere. I also like that there is no metal hardware in gold or silver tone, so it just goes with everything. It’s really put a lot of my old bags out of commission. I keep a lot of them, in case I have a shift in preferences, but increasingly I’m tired of having those unused bags take up space.
Since the purchase of that bag three years ago, I think the only other bags I’ve bought were a couple of handmade bags (one at a craft fair, one in a little mountain town out west) that I wear infrequently but they have their uses. And a secondhand black Bao Bao crossbody that gets used a lot for occasions and city travel, since it dresses up or down nicely and packs down to nothing. I also got an inexpensive silver occasion bag because my old one does not fit a cell phone.
So, I’m really not in the market for more bags, more in an editing mode. I sometimes think about duplicating the Bao Bao backpack in black, but it’s not a need. I just worry a little bit that I’ll wear out the grey one!
I’m feeling very done with anything that is carried only by hand — if there’s no shoulder strap or crossbody capability, I won’t use it. No more clutches, no more satchels or bags that only have hand straps. I’ve even gone as far as having loops attached to the inside of a favorite old clutch so that it can be carried in crossbody or shoulder mode. I don’t use it a lot, but it’s a unique piece and sometimes it’s just what I want to use!