Mandoline Khaki Handbag

A bowling shape with a rounded base

Seen head on, the sides curve rather than stand square, and the base rounds off at the corners. It borrows the proportions of a weekend bag and brings them down to a size you can carry on a normal Tuesday. At 30x26 cm the body stays wide enough to be useful without turning into luggage. If you want to see how it compares, browse the other handbag shapes we stock.

Wearing the Mandoline khaki handbag day to day

Both handles are short and each one buckles like a belt, so the drop changes depending on the hole you choose: hand-held at the shortest setting, over the forearm or the shoulder once you let it out. Khaki is easier to place than it looks. It sits well against raw denim, warms up next to camel and brown, and avoids the slightly severe note a black bag brings to workwear.

The top zip, the D-rings and the pocket at the back

The main opening runs the whole width of the top, and the pull carries a small engraved Mandoline tag. A second zip crosses the back panel horizontally, its pull finished in the same tone. On each side sits a gold-tone D-ring stitched onto a tab, which is where a strap would attach. If across-the-body wear is your default, look instead at the styles that arrive ready for a long strap.

What the Mandoline photographs actually show

Pairing the khaki with the rest of a wardrobe

The antiqued gold hardware keeps the bag away from anything glossy, which makes it an easy match for warm-toned watches and bangles. The woven band is the part people notice, so a plain coat gives it room; against a patterned scarf it holds its own without competing. Through the colder months it works as readily with an ecru wool coat as with a parka in the same green.