"To be honest, this is my favorite shop❤️🩹 I appreciate a good quality of the leather and also unique style, but very simple and minimalistic I have around six bags, and I adore them all"
The pared-back tote
No lining. No fuss. Just leather.
The Originals Tote is the same silhouette as our lined work tote, taken back to its essentials. No cotton interior. No extra panels. The raw leather is exposed inside, and you feel it directly when you reach in.
Lighter, simpler, more honest. For someone who wants the bag to tell its own story over time, with as little in the way as possible.
The detail
Clean stitched edge. Italian hardware.
Without a lining, the inside edges are stitched cleanly so you see the raw cut of the leather. Hardware is solid Italian. Two shoulder straps with a 31 cm drop, comfortable to carry with a coat or layered on top of work clothes.
No internal pockets aside from a single open slip in leather. The point isn't organisation, it's leather.
The proof
100,000+ Rowdy bags. Hand-stitched in Cape Town.
Since 2012 we've made over 100,000 bags by hand from our Cape Town workshop. The Originals range is the rawest expression of what we do, no embellishment, just the leather and the hand.
Every Originals Tote is covered by our Repair-for-Life Promise. Any defect through normal use, we fix.
