A clutch bag good enough to eat (out of)...

Bags, bags, bags.  They do keep getting more complicated, don't they.  Makes me just want to go back to basics.  And now we can with Natalie Thakur's leather versions of everyday carryarounds.  There's a brown paper bag to keep forever, standard stripey shoppers in the finest leather - and (my own personal favourite) a penny sweet paper bag masquerading as a clutch.

It's sweet, it's stripey, it's not too expensive, it might make you want to skip around and eat candy floss, and - most importantly of all - a million other people won't be carrying one.  Unless you're buying rock in a seaside town, like Torquay, in which case that's ok then anyway.  Tuck in.

Natalie Thakur's Penny Sweet Clutch bag and purse from £28 www.theshopfloorproject.com