My Baggallini On the Town bag arrived. My first impression was that it was too small because it was shipped very flat! But let me give you detail on what I think now that I've used it for a couple days:
- The overall construction is nice. It feels a tad 'heavy' but it's still lighter than my last canvas purse.
- The water resistant part is going to be cool!! But it's not so obvious that the material is nylon. It looks really nice and even chic with the silver zips and such.
- The arm strap adjusts so I can wear it on one shoulder or lengthens to go across my body. It has plenty of room to lengthen and I like that. But there is no padding on the strap. I like that because it LOOKS better but we will see how I FEEL after wearing it in the parks. So far, it's felt great and even better than my last purse because it is lighter.
- It has a back zipper pocket. I thought I would prefer an open one (like my last bag) but then silly me realized I didn't HAVE to zip it up
I like to drop my keys in here quickly. But the zip is nice because I can guarantee they won't fall out! The back zipper pocket covers the whole length and heigth of the purse so it will fit a lot more in it!
- It has two side tiny pockets. In the teeny-tiny days of cell phones, it may have fit that but there is no way my iphone will fit in these. I am using the pockets for tiny items I might not access a lot - lotion, bandaids, aspirin, etc.
- The front has a zip pocket that has two pen holders, credit card holders, an inside zip pocket, and a somewhat extendable pocket. I don't carry credit cards outside of my wallet but this is nice to put things into 'slots' like my husbands business cards, frequent shopper cards, gum, and my blotting papers.
- The pen holders in the front pocket and in the main pocket are way too big to hold regular pens. I tried anyway but noticed that I kept knocking into the pens as I tried to get deeper into the purse. So they probably won't serve any function ever for me.
- The large inside pocket has another zip pocket in it, an attached 6 inch length of material with a clip (you could put your keys on it) and another attached 6 inch length of material with a zip "wallet". The zip wallet has a front see through pocket to hold a drivers license and the wallet itself is fairly large. I'm using it to hold my make up (I like to have powder, cover up, chapstick, and lipstick with me).
- The large inside pocket holds my wallet, iphone, travel kleenex, sunglasses + case, digital camera, and has room to spare. I could fit a water bottle in here but it would be tight - it would fit fine if I stood it up and left the top unzipped. This is my only complaint about the purse. I would have preferred it a tad larger to hold the water bottle but I'm going to think about getting those water bottle hooks. Or just carrying it my hand. Or DH can just put it in his cargo shorts' pockets
All in all, I'm glad I purchased it. No matter what, it's definitely my new weekend purse! (My weekday purse is my laptop bag.) And I will definitely take it to the parks! All the zip pockets will help tremendously at organizing my little things.
Thanks for all the help!
the only thing that I have heard as an advantage is that its water proof. Any bag can be water proof if you spray it with "camp dry"
, but sometimes breaksdown and wears the waist pack for the ease and comfort and convenience can't be beat.
