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Common Projects Shopper offers quality and timeless style

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This bag from the Common Projects brand showcases clean lines along with classic fabrics and construction for a perfect everyday tote bag. Made in Italy from genuine nappa leather, the Shopper tote ($620) has adjustable belt-buckle straps in contrasting leather and a blank label patch for detail without blasting a brand to every passing stranger. The bag has a sizable zippered inside pocket for all of your smaller items, and is available in black as well as the tan pictured above. Quality construction and a timeless, simple design mean that this bag will add to your street style even if it only holds your gym clothes or lunch. If you’re not one to buy a new bag every season, this tote will only get better with age.

Kelly Montgomery
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Kelly Montgomery is a magazine journalism graduate from the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communications…
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