Work to Play and Back: This Leather Backpack Does the Whole Drill
The Nappa Dori Explorer Backpack has got your back
As notorious pairs go, backpacks and gentlemen are a much maligned one. You risk looking like a schoolboy. Or a trekker. There’s nothing wrong with either, but when the time for each occupation is past, put the thing down.
Except for the fact that you don’t always have to. The thing about polish, craftsmanship and distinction is that a backpack can have the same cachet as old power symbols like attaché cases, privilege briefcases and folios.
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This tan leather affair by Nappa Dori lets you be urban, mobile and worldly—without the weight of such labels as performativity and peacocking. In tan (the sort of neutral that allows you to go effortlessly from work to play and back), it’s structured, spacious and supplied with card slots, slip-in pockets and snap pockets for added storage. The genuine leather finish outside and herringbone fabric lining inside bring a worldly suavity you could never associate with a backpack.
They say don’t sweat the small stuff. Well, we say: just throw it in, along with your 16-inch laptop.
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