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Decoding the office bag

Show me an accessory more loaded with social pitfalls than the bag you use at work…

Mar 14, 2026
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It’s been a while since I thought in any detail about bags. But with the international world order crumbling around us, it was a welcome distraction to focus on something so trivial and uncomplicated. Or so I thought. Since writing this article, I’m now convinced that there isn’t a single accessory more loaded with class, gender, status, sector ‘coding’…

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