Melanie Paris Elegant Wallet Camel

Camel is a quiet colour to carry, and this one stays even across the whole panel: matt, faintly grained, warming towards cognac where the light falls on it directly. The photographs show the wallet closed first, then laid open in two leaves, which is enough to read both the plain outside and the busier inside.

A long camel wallet for notes kept flat

At 19x11x2.5cm this is a long wallet rather than a folded one: banknotes slide in at full length instead of being creased down the middle, and cards stack along the fold. Shut, it reads as a slim rectangle with rounded corners, thin enough to sit against the back of a handbag without pushing the lining out of shape.

The speckled tab across the front

Only one thing interrupts the front panel. A narrow upright tab, cut from a finely speckled taupe material, is outlined by an edge painted almost black and crossed end to end by a thick ecru cord sewn in widely spaced passes. A short keeper in the same speckled finish crosses it halfway down. It is decoration and nothing else: nothing fastens here.

Three sides open, one stays shut

Following the rim from one photograph to the next, the teeth run the full top edge, round both upper corners and down the short sides; the long bottom edge carries no teeth at all and works as the fold. Tape and teeth are dyed to match the camel, so the closure almost disappears into the panel, and only the dark pull breaks the line, parked in a bottom corner once the wallet is shut.

Inside, a printed lattice behind a stitched window

The inside changes mood. The walls stay camel but turn smooth, while the zipped section is lined in printed cloth: a tight lattice of rust and brown diamonds over an ecru ground. The same print comes back behind a rectangular window cut into one leaf and framed by fine stitching. Below it, slanted slots take cards one above the other, and dark metal press studs close the leaves.

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What camel sits next to

Camel takes a navy coat as easily as a pair of raw jeans, and keeps the print as a surprise for whoever opens it. To see where this length sits among the rest, browse the women's wallet shelf, which lines up the compact folds, the flap companions and the long zip-rounds.

If you would rather keep change out of the main compartment, a zipped purse kept just for coins sits in the same small leather goods family and travels in the same bag pocket.