It looks way too much like those silly giant suitcase full of everything purses my mother and my teachers carried in the 1970s and 1980s. I think she had one almost exactly like that, but naugahyde and without the zippered pocket. Retro is in I guess, but it says "church lady" to me in the strictist sense.

Besides, you can't angle-strap it across your chest, it can't be laundered, it won't fit in a pannier or hook to a bike rack (and the leather might be damaged by bungy cords) and it doesn't look big enough for my laptop or to haul a change of clothing.

Then again, my next purse is likely to come from REI or from one of those places in Providence or NYC that sew messenger bags. Fashion is not for me I guess, but performance is.

p.s. My husband carries a "murse" - it's a "safari" bag purchased at the San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park. Very tough to look at it knowing every house we passed between Escondido and the park is toast - even if the animal park was designed to partially escape and the animals were okay.

It's just that if that's what entered your mind when the Sox were in the World Series, then it's pretty likely that you're a Pink Capper.