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This is where the small stuff lives: coin purses built to hold change and a folded note without swallowing half your bag. Zip-round shapes, metal clasp frames that snap shut,…
This section brings together compact wallets, roomier companions with a chequebook slot and multi-pocket designs closed by zip. Materials run from textured synthetic to natural…
A fabric clutch here is a small soft pouch you can hold in the hand or drop inside a bigger bag. The product pages give three sizes, 20 × 14 cm, 22 × 15 cm and 22 × 16 cm, in…
There are 201 products.
A wallet that spends its days at the bottom of a tote leads a very different life from one carried loose in a coat pocket. Inside a bag, it meets keys, a lip balm and the occasional pen, so the surface matters more than the closure. In a pocket, the shape matters instead, and anything thick sits badly and starts to curve. And when nothing is carried at all, the piece has to hold its own on a keyring. Decide that first and half the range rules itself out.
Three carrying habits cover most days. The table sets out which part of the range answers each one, and what to look at before ordering.
| How you carry it | What suits it | What to check first |
|---|---|---|
| Inside a handbag or tote | Any of the three ranges, including the roomier multi-pocket wallets | A surface that wipes clean, since it shares space with keys |
| In a coat or jacket pocket | A compact wallet or a short coin purse, kept flat | Thickness above all, because bulk is what shows through fabric |
| On its own, no bag | A coin purse mounted on a keyring, or a soft pouch carried in the hand | A closure that stays shut when the piece swings |
Carried loose, a small leather good sees far more knocks than it does inside a lining. That shows up in two places. The closure comes first: a zip that runs right round the piece keeps everything in when it is tipped upside down, while a metal clasp opens wide in one movement but relies on the frame staying sprung. The surface comes second. Texture hides small scuffs in a way flat colour never does, which is why woven and studded fronts age more quietly than a smooth panel. Cork sits somewhere in between, light enough to forget and easy to wipe.
Work backwards from the bag rather than from the product photo. An evening pouch will not swallow a companion wallet of roughly 19 x 12 cm, though a compact of about 15.5 x 10 cm usually slips in; cork models run longer, at around 20 x 10.5 cm. Depth decides more than length here, and it is the figure most often skipped. Each product page carries its own measurements, and the wallet range breaks those differences down format by format.
Because these pieces come out several times a day, the front of them gets seen far more than the inside. Plain shades in black, camel, taupe or bottle green sit quietly next to a busy bag. Illustrated fronts do the opposite: cats, poppies, lemons, stars and patchwork panels are noticed at the till. That visibility is exactly what makes them work as a small present, since the coin purse selection lets you choose by character rather than by size, with no fit to get wrong.
For a soft, unstructured piece that moves between bags, the printed cotton pouches answer a different need altogether: nothing to unfasten, and they flatten out when empty.
And to step back up to bags, straps and the wider selection, the full leather goods range brings all of these families together in one place.