Rock the Croc

I don’t succumb to bags that often. I like them well enough but I’ve never forked a huge sum for them and have been lucky enough to accumulate nice bags via gifts (if the Mothership is reading, without Anne Valerie Hash’s washed leather bags, I’m unable to function properly for the rest of the year…).  I certainly didn’t expect to have my eyes copping an eyeful of the new AW07-8 Diesel bags with feelings of remote desire.

Exclusive to Selfridges, Diesel have gone down the luxury accessory line with these croc and leather bags that are well-crafted and a little less sports-orientated than I would expect from Diesel.  I spent a while inspecting it in a scarily scientific manner, opening and closing the closures, pockets and zips, touching the leather just to see if they deemed worthy of the circa ¬£400 price tag.  It’s terrible to say but there is an element of label snobbery when you feel you have to suspend belief and just look at the bag on the basis of how well it’s made as opposed to the label that the bag bears.

Conclusion? The bag does good…. and they especially light my fire because I’m after something structured, a bit of moc-croc texture and something that is decent/medium sized as opposed to something so oversized it covers half my outfit. OUtfit being something equally structured and rigid to the point of harsh (pointy shoulders, flared stiff skirts, nipped in waists and killer boots…).