Pink star wallet

A zip-around powder pink wallet with a gold glitter star

The zip is the part you handle every day, so it is worth starting there. Gold metal teeth run around three sides, so the two halves fall fully open and nothing hides in a corner you have to feel for. The slider carries a short gold chain, then a tassel cut from the same grained pink, finished with a gold cap.

A dark lining and a wide opening

Cards and notes show up against the dark lining instead of disappearing into a matching pink, which is the small practical difference between a lining chosen to look tidy and one chosen to be used. With the zip open, you reach in from above rather than sideways.

Carrying it at 14x10 cm

At 14x10 cm it disappears into whatever you are already carrying. That is the size you take when you are not taking a bag at all, and the reason it ends up being the one you reach for on a short errand. It is also the size that stops a wallet quietly turning into a second handbag.

What it goes with

Powder pink and gold sit easily next to indigo denim, camel or cream, and the whole thing reads softer than a black wallet does. Against an all-black outfit the star does more work, because it ends up the only bright point you are wearing. If you are still weighing up the format, the other zip and flap models are worth putting side by side first.