Mandoline: bags and coin purses

At Mode Tendance, Mandoline bags and coin purses cover four families: shoulder bags, handbags, belt bags and coin purses. Material is what shifts from one piece to the next, from corduroy velvet to suedette edged with faux fur, and on to coated fabric. The gold hardware runs through all of it.

Mandoline bags and coin purses

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Where the Mandoline range starts and stops

This is a short range, which makes it easy to read. Two halves, really: bags on one side, coin purses on the other, and nothing sitting awkwardly in between. The bags split again into shoulder styles, handbags and belt bags, while the coin purses keep to a single small format with two different fronts. If the bags are all you came for, the Mandoline bag line-up sits on its own page.

Velvet, suedette, coated fabric

Material does more work here than shape does. Two bags can share a body and still have nothing in common, because the surface is what registers first. Four materials carry the range, and two decorative finishes are applied over them.

Materials and finishes used across the Mandoline pieces
Material or finishWhere it appearsDetail worth knowing
Plain velvetBelt bagsA star on the front panel, a large compartmented main pocket and a back pocket.
Corduroy velvetGrey handbagSequinned front pocket, removable and adjustable strap, black synthetic trim.
SuedetteShoulder bagBeige faux-fur edging, two flap front pockets, secure back pocket.
Coated fabricShoulder bags, satchel, handbagsGold zips and buckles, several inner compartments, adjustable strap.
Woven finishCoin pursesThe weave covers the whole flap; magnetic fastening, zipped inner pocket.
Studded finishCoin purses and a two-tone bagSmall flat studs, aged gold on the front pocket of the bag.

Reading the front flap

Coin purses are told apart by the flap more than by anything else. One group carries a line of small studs laid flat, in metallic grey, black, taupe, burgundy or bronze. The other is woven right across the surface, in navy, camel, burgundy, black, khaki, mustard and taupe. Both close the same way: a flap held by a magnet, a zipped pocket for coins and a front pocket for whatever gets used daily. Beyond this range, the wallet and coin purse section brings the other makes together.

Straps that come off, straps that swap

Most of the bags arrive with an adjustable, removable strap, so the same piece works over the shoulder, across the body or in the hand. A khaki shoulder bag takes the idea further: it comes with two straps, one plain and one in a geometric pattern, and changing them shifts the whole look in seconds. Belt bags sit at the waist or across the chest instead. The rest of the shop is filed the same way, which is why the shoulder bags of every make end up on one page.

Sizes, in centimetres

The figures below are the ones printed on the product pages, so they beat guessing from a photograph. A suedette shoulder bag measures 25 by 17 and a coated-fabric one 25 by 18, which is the small end of the range. A satchel sits at 29 by 23. A corduroy handbag runs to 39 by 27 and a black handbag to 39 by 30. Belt bags come in at 36 by 16, long rather than deep, while coin purses hold at 14 by 11 or 14 by 12.

The pieces that break the plain rule

Most of the range keeps to one colour and one texture, so the few pieces that do otherwise are easy to spot: the star, the sequins, the aged studs, the swappable geometric strap. None of them changes how the bag works, which is precisely why they mix so easily with the quieter pieces, and the shared gold hardware does the rest of the joining. Against the boldest colours here, red and green, a plain coin purse holds up better than a second pattern.