Kipling Bags

The Appeal of Kipling Bags

Kipling bags are known primarily for their durability. The Kipling lines originally featured lightweight styles that were useful for frequent travelers and international adventurers. These bags range from simple errand messengers to ergonomic duffels, but most importantly there are a few Kipling characteristics that distinguish this designer from other products on the market.

Most Kipling bags feature a:

• Fun Monkey
• Anti-Pickpocket System
• Lightweight Quality
• Expandable Compartments

The Fun Monkey

Whether you're sporting a fun shoulder bag or an enormous weekend duffel, Kipling quality is always accompanied by the fun monkey. This monkey is an adorable reference to Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, but more pertinantly, a monkey is a symbol of adventure; and Kipling bags are built for adventure. Larger bags may feature a furry monkey whereas the smaller styles may come adorned with a tiny metal monkey. Either way, this monkey is fun fun fun and it makes for a popular collectors item!

The Anti-Pickpocket System

Many of the travel-intended Kipling bags feature a special Anti-pickpocket zipper system. Because when you're mucking around foreign places, heightened security can save you an unpremeditated trip to the passport office. Therefore, Kipling bags are designed for the concerned and careful adventurer.

Lightweight Quality

Though not all Kipling bags feature the slightly distressed and rugged nylon that people commonly associate with the name, many still do. In fact, the travel bags predominantly feature a material that is both durable and non-encumbering.

Expandable Compartments

If you're a Kipling fan, you're likely to be a fan of "stuff". Kipling designs sympathize with your love of miscellany, hence many styles come happily equipped with expandable zippered pockets. Several styles feature many interior and exterior pockets, making these bags a veritable black hole for whatever knick-knacks you'll acquire over the coming years.

Kipling Bags Hit the Trend Scene

Kipling bags are all about travel. Many newer styles are hitting the high fashion scene, which is why Kipling has designed several different lines to suit individual needs. These six collection are meaningfully named:

• Basic
• If
• Denim
• Vintage
• Star
• Deva

The Basic Collection

The Basic Collection includes everything from handbags and backpacks to travel bags. The colors stay true to the collection's name in that they feature very basic blues, reds, and other classic colors that come with aptly matched monkeys.

Everyday bag styles feature totes, shoulder bags, handbags and messengers.

The If Collection

The If Collection is specifically designed for the flirty fashionista. This collection is divided into five styles of exterior prints:

• Vichy Check
• Las Vegas
• Frame
• Rabbit
• Heartwarming

The Heartwarming line is entirely unique in its love of soft fabric heart-shaped wristlets and fiery-red tones.

The Denim Collection

Practicality fuses with fashion when it comes to this double-stitched denim line that features antique brass hardware and an assortment of kicky styles including, totes, messengers, handbags, and uber-pocketed shoulder bags. But this isn't rugged old west denim; these styles are as sexy and bar-ready as they come. Add a little faux fur and a dangling metal monkey and, behold! You're ready to hit the evening scene!

The Vintage Collection

If you're an urban hipster or just a lover of muted colors and distressed fabrics, then the Kipling Vintage Collection is your Holy Grail. Featuring shades of auburn, blue, and understated ochre, these Kipling bags are the ideal accessories for nostalgic fashions and financially insolvent college students. Moreover, the endearing check patterns add just a touch of femininity to the seemingly dusty exteriors of this collection.

The Star Collection

Release your inner elegance and indulge in the leather-finished styles of the Kipling Star collection. These styles offer the standard totes, handbags, and messengers, but are limited to vibrant and classic colors such as ink, roze and rye. The leather detailing is what distinguishes this collection from the Basic and If lines.

The Deva Collection

Marketed primarily at high-class and trend-conscious women, the Deva collection offers bold patterns and electric colors in fun boxy styles. Both zipper-rich and fluffy, these wild styles can sometimes boast a key pattern that is eye-catching as well as Art Deco in appearance. Totally daring and always remarkable, the Kipling Deva collection is specifically designed to get you noticed!

Where to Buy

Kipling bags are available in many department stores such as Macy's and Nordstrom. They are also purchasable online at Amazon.com.