In today’s Reader Mail:
Hi Bunnyshop!
I discovered the lovely Jocasi bags from viewing your site. Recently I fell hard for the Bond Street bag in black but the exchange rate from dollar to pound is kinda hard to swallow (its double!). I wanted to know if you think they are worth $250 American dollars in terms of quality and looks. Granted it looks good enough to eat on the website, but since I’ve never seen a Jocasi bag in person… If you had the money, would you buy the Bond street bag for $250? Btw, I own bags from a wide range of brands from cheapo $25 bags to one and just one Chloe Paddington in a metallic aubergine (purple). And lately, I’ve been searching for a stylish and good quality everyday black bag so that I can spare the Paddington and still look stylish.
Thank you so much for your input.
S.
As you might have guessed, we could not be bigger fans of Jocasi—so the short answer is yes. The long answer: We totally would. We have bought several, in fact—not the Bond Street bag but another, for Lil Bunny, who we hope will chime in here. And we own one ourselves. It is our go-to bag. We have plenty of $12 tote bags, and to be sure, they’re what we’ll use 70% of the time. However, tote bags just won’t work for all situations, professional, social, or otherwise, which is where, obviously Jocasi comes in. We think there’s so much logic for the $250 bag: We had an $800 Luella bag that stressed us out so much every time we took it outside that we ended up selling it on eBay. Our Jocasi bag is excellent enough that it looks completely professional, but not such a financial loss, should anything untoward happen, that we’re scared to take it out. And Jocasi, specifically, is even better than its contributors in this price range because it’s English and has yet to be widely available here. So it’s the best of both worlds: reasonable exclusivity at a price that is generally not measured as a proportion of one’s rent.
Also, they wear well, and they are just super nice.
This seems as good a time as any to announce that in three weeks—just in time for July 4!—we’ll be giving away a Jocasi bag(!). We could hardly be more excited.
In the meantime, we hope other Jocasi buyers will chime in.
And this is not the Bond Street bag pictured, but our choice for our next Jocasi purchase: the Montana bag, about $240
If we had ANY money to spend on a bag, we’d go to Jocasi first. If someone gave us a thousand bucks, we’d head to Jocasi to see what we could find. We have three bags, 2 wallets, and perhaps a belt. We can’t speak more highly of them, and we totally agree with the high end but not so high end you’ll get robbed note. And they’re still under the radar, somehow – so you get massive cred, too.
We absolutely, positively, without a doubt would take $250 and buy a Jocasi bag. We get compliments on every one we have whenever we take it out. We love them so much!
wow that bag is gorgeous!!!!! i would love to win it- along with everyone else reading this! if you are one of the unlucky people check out shopgoldyn.com- they have a lot of handbags of similar styles to this beautiful bag.