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Original Penguin Doctor’s Bag

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Original Penguin Khaki Canvas Doctor’s Bag – $129.00

Plaid interior. Nice touch.

Certainly more formal than the French Connection waxed canvas bag or even the still impressive J. Crew rugged twill messenger, this Doctor’s bag from Original Penguin is big enough to hold a laptop, and smart enough to work as your daily work brief.

At 16″ wide with a padded laptop sleeve this thing might have a retro shape but it was built for the modern worker bee.  Dual leather top handles keep the bag balanced, and a shoulder strap is detachable.

There are two outer zip pockets (one on each side obviously) with the Original Penguin logo showing up in the tonal leather color on just one of them.  Great color scheme, interesting silhouette, and not too big of an investment at $130.00
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Question.  If you had to pick, which one would you use as your day to day work bag?  The Original Penguin?  Or the already mentioned J. Crew Rugged Twill:

J.Crew at ShopStyle

Comments

  2. I agree. The J Crew bag would work very well with a more business casual, dark jeans/blazer environment. The Penguin Bag I could see with a suit. It’s all about context.

  3. I’d have to see someone carrying it before making a decision, but to me it looks borderline murse.

  5. Anyone know where to get at this penguin bag? The link to Penguin has it at $260, which will certainly deter my purchase!