Jane Birkin straw basket

Our 6 Favorite Straw Handbags For Summer

Nothing says summer like a straw carryall. Here are six we’d love to take everywhere from the office to the beach. (LOOKBOOK)

Jane Birkin straw basket

 

CHEAP & ICONIC | According to Wikipedia, the infamous Hermès Birkin handbag, which retails for a minimum $9,000 and has “ultimate fashion indulgence” written all over it, was conceived in the early 1980s after a chance meeting between then Hermès CEO Jean-Louis Dumas and singer/actress Jane Birkin on an airplane. She was travelling with a bag she’d already made famous, a wicker market basket she employed as both a handbag and weekend luggage.

This original Birkin, the Jane-invented one (pictured above as she carried it in the 1960s), was a holdover from her hippie chick days, when proletarian peasant sacks and straw bags of all sorts were in fashion—as they are again today.

Here are six cool straw totes—priced from $18 to $60—we’d take along to France (where Birkin still lives), or anywhere else for that matter. —Annabel Lee

Club Monaco Brigette Straw Tote — $60
Club Monaco Brigette Straw Bag—$60

 

Zara Large Basket Algue Tote — $30Zara Large Basket Tote $30

 

 J. Crew Farmers Paper Straw Tote — $54J. Crew Farmers' Market Tote - $54

 

Gap Paper Straw Tote — $48Gap Straw Paper Tote $48 (online)

 

Old Navy Paper Straw Tote — $18Women's Striped Straw Totes - $18

 

 Joe Fresh Striped Tote — $29

 

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