subject: The Ultimate Carry-all: Hot Trends In Canvas Tote Bags [print this page] Though they've been around forever, recent trends in canvas tote bags translate to high style benefitting the environment and our collective wallet!
Trends in canvas tote bags cross all boundaries of age, gender, tax bracket and political affiliation, making canvas tote bags the truly accessible darlings of the tote bag world.
Catalogue Canvas
Companies like L.L. Bean and Land's End have long been selling canvas tote bags through their catalogues. A mainstay with boaters, outdoor enthusiasts, and parents on the go, canvas tote bags offer excellent hauling capacity and tidy stowage of daily necessities. Perfectly paired with shorts and a polo shirt or corduroys and a Fair Isle sweater, canvas tote bags are the perfect grocery or picnic bag with room enough for a full baguette! These totes are available in a wide range of sizes, in natural or colored canvas, with a variety of handles, closures and styles (monogramming available). LL Bean and Land's End canvas tote bags are a durable classic certain to remain in fashion even after trends in canvas tote bags fade into fashion history.
Waste Not at the Market
As a reusable alternative to plastic and paper grocery bags, simple canvas tote bags offer fashionable affordability, durability, and reusability like no other kind of bag can. Retailers like Whole Foods, Vitamin Cottage and regional chains got hip to the trends and began selling their own reusable recycled plastic and canvas tote bags, ablaze with their name and logo. Selling self promotion for a pittance, stores found they could make money, self advertise, and save on the cost of 'paper or plastic.' Talk about a winning formula for eco-driven consumerism. Green, eco-friendly and reduce/reuse/recycle finally hit it big, making reusable grocery store logo recycled plastic and canvas tote bags a fashionable accessory!
Canvas Style
One of the more fashion forward trends in canvas tote bags is the melding of a tote and messenger bag creating a commuter tote with room enough for a laptop. Cross's 'Madison Cross Town Computer Bag,' offers sophisticated styling and design in a canvas tote bag. With flap closure, padded laptop compartment and dual top carry handles, the 'Madison' is serious business, on the go. Mango Tango's 'Oatmeal Canvas Tote Bag' boasts the capacity to hold up to a 17 inch laptop screen with or without the removable padded sleeve. These canvas tote bags are very distant cousins of the retail grocery tote bags!
Yoga and Pilates inspired style trends in canvas tote bags provide secure storage of mats, water bottles and workout essentials for the gal or guy on the go. Plank's 'Canvas Tote Bag' is a colorful leather trimmed canvas tote employing metal clips and nylon leather webbing to secure your yoga mat to the oversized rubber footed canvas tote. Trends in canvas tote bags are helping you staying fit in style.
Trends in canvas tote bags can proudly display your Disney community membership, tote your wine and groceries with a monogram of your wedding date, or whisk you away for a weekend in Paris with linen canvas and Vecchio brown leather trim. But more importantly, there's finally something teenagers, parents, environmental groups and even Disney can all agree on - trends in canvas tote bags are fashion we can afford to love!
