For those who didn't read my brief, sad story... my favorite and only Fossil bag has a hole! It's at an obvious stress point so either I accidentally overloaded it (doubt it) or it isn't a good design. I paid cash for it so I have no receipt to attempt to warranty it. I put a bit of stress on the hole and it immediately got bigger, so I don't see the point in trying to fix it.

So I ordered one almost exactly like this one, but it must be last year's color because it was $55 less! I got the last one they had at that price. I've never had one with a flap before so we'll see how that goes. I'll try it out around the house before I take the tags off. I really need one cross body bag big enough to manage a small water bottle for day trips and I hope this fits the bill.

http://www.zappos.com/fossil-v.....flap-brown

The link isn't working right. The bag is right but I got the all dark brown one.

I'll miss my gray holey one though. It was a great bag.