subject: Shopping For Long Lasting Fashion: The Leather Shoulder Bag [print this page] When shopping for a leather shoulder bag, regardless of trends, choosing a design that expresses your own personal style is the best investment.
For durability, versatility and classic lines, a leather shoulder bag is a wardrobe statement you can stick with from day to day, or change daily. Like Ms. Heidi Klum says, 'In fashion, one day you're in, and the next, you're out.' The impermanence of trends is where finding your own style comes into play.
Soft and Slouchy
Leather shoulder bag designers have embraced the ease of soft lines this fall. Though fashion can be rigid, designers like Foley + Corinna, Green Street Designs and Tano have created a gentler approach to the fall leather shoulder bag. With supple suedes, slouching and softened structural design, personal style comes alive. Tano's 'Boogy Bucket' is a slouchy, bucket style leather shoulder bag with contrasting leather on the 11 inch strap drop. Paired with a tweed suit or sweater dress the 'Boogy Bucket' is perfect for dinner downtown or a date at the pier. Tano's 'Self Portrait' in 'Purple Haze' is a relaxed leather shoulder bar with tassel pull zippered pockets and sure to catch a gaze or two over a slouchy boyfriend blazer or turtleneck sweater. Thankfully, amidst these tough times, fashion comes to the rescue easing rough edges with structural and textural softness we can all cozy up to.
Rock and Roll Style
Even the harsh rock and roll chunkiness of zippers and studs has softened a bit in this season's leather shoulder bag designs. Leather shoulder bags by designers like DKNY, BE & D and Bally are showing a gentler delivery to the dramatic edge of rock and roll style. Ruching and ruffles, mixed with metal and studded accents, bring out the mellower side of rock and roll. Bally brings softness and sophistication to the leather shoulder bag with the 'Multi Zip Hobo Shoulder Bag.' Creating a gathered look with vertical mid-gauge open zipper work on a supple calfskin leather shoulder bag, the 'Multi Zip Hobo' retains its rocker charm with the finesse of silver hoop attachments to a single leather handle. The Bally 'Multi Zip Hobo' may just be the rock and roll power ballad of leather shoulder bags.
BoHo, Purple and a Plethora of Pockets
Bohemian and world style seem to go hand in hand with the reemergence of purple as high fashion and pockets galore! BoHo leather shoulder bag style translates into an amalgamation of world styles and textures with a mellow romance. MICHAEL by Michael Kors' 'Astor Patchwork' leather shoulder bag brings home the BoHo style with accent stitching and versatile relaxed tote design. The dusty purple, double pocket design of Sabina's '3504' leather shoulder bag is youthful style at play. With a 10 inch strap drop, the '3504' high fashion bohemian design is marked with a slim profile and ample room for storage.' Worn with a gray sweater dress, a tunic and skinny jeans or a sleek black jersey dress, this leather shoulder bag delivers style in a sure-to-be-classic design.
Like a pair of great fitting jeans or a classic white button down, shopping for a leather shoulder bag means shopping for a wardrobe staple. A leather shoulder bag can take you take you through a season or last throughout the years, but it is how you choose to wear it that cements your personal style.
