What's in my bag: Ellie Deluxe black handbag with gold hardware

Janet Carr

Dec 26

I love sample sales, and near where we live (literally a 30-second walk) is a huge glass building holding a multi-brand fashion sales and distribution agency. They do Alix The Label, Buffalo, Caterpillar, Cras, Ecoalf, Fila, Fubu - Herschel, Norr, Noella, Les Deux, Karl Kani, Komono, Refrigiwear, Resumé, Núnoo, Shaka (a South African brand), Stella Nova, Surface Project, Pro-Keds, True Religion, Vogue, Miss Sixty and many more.

Twice a year they have a huge sample sale. Most of the items are too 'young' for me but I have bought many pairs of Keds, some gorgeous handbags and my favourite fluffy coat by Karl Kani. Both the jeans and the coat in the photo below come from there. I probably paid $35 for both of them.

Normally shoes are $15, bags are $20 or $50, and jeans are $40, but on the last day everything is half off that. Of course the best things have sold by then, but there are some real gems to be found if you have a good scratch. So I have bought some lovely Nunoo bags for $10 or $25 in the last hour or two of the sale. The bag below is one of them. I used it to attend a Christmas party yesterday because I felt my Van Der Spek tote was too big to take to a party.

This one is called Núnoo Ellie Deluxe Black with Gold. I bought this one during the last few hours of the sale. Retail price was $200 and I paid $25. I like that it has gold hardware.

One tiny front pocket holds my travel card and the other fits my keys (strange how I still said keys when I have tags these days, though I now have two actual keys, for my office in town)
The zippered pocket behind it contains makeup, glasses wipes, aspirin.
Inside there is one slip pocket and one zippered pocket. They hold receipts and bits of paper
the body of my bag holds my phone, my planner, my pencil case, two packs of tissues (my nose really runs when the temperature is below freezing

I also used to have a cream one for summer, which cost me $25. I sold it during the year because I felt I would never get much use out of it, summer being so short in Sweden.