Women's Wallet with Silver Stars

A zip-round long wallet that takes notes flat

The zip travels round three sides and shuts the wallet completely, so cards stay put even when it is loose at the bottom of a bag. At 19 x 10 x 2.5 cm it is long rather than folding, which means notes go in flat instead of being creased in half. It weighs 164 grams. If you are weighing up shapes before buying, the wallet range, from cork to printed finishes lines the formats up side by side.

What the star print actually looks like

There is no border to the print and no repeat in it: the stars sit at different sizes and angles right across the outer face. Some of them are silver and metallic, the rest flat white. The zip pull and its teeth pick up the same silver, so that finish carries on round the edge of the wallet.

What sits where inside

Open it flat and the layout reads at a glance. A central zipped pocket runs down the middle for coins, with the note gussets alongside it, and the card slots sit on the panels that face outwards. The photograph of the wallet open flat catches the middle pocket and the gussets; the slots are on the sides turned away from the camera.

Coins are the one thing that outgrows the middle pocket quickly. If you would rather keep them out of the wallet altogether, have a look at the coin purse aisle and its pocket-sized formats, zip-round and clasp-frame alike.

Living with it in a handbag

Nothing about the colours asks for planning: black with silver on it goes with whichever bag is in use that day. What the print adds is recognition. Reaching into a crowded bag, the wallet is spotted rather than hunted, which is more than a plain black one manages.