The Mad Men bag

I had to go up to our London office in Pimlico for a meeting yesterday and on the walk back to the station came across a messy little vintage shop selling items in aid of Romanian children. After a short nose around I clapped eyes on this amazing leather Harrods bag and knew that it had to be mine. At £16, it didn't even take much justifying. Straight from the late Fifties/early Sixties, it wouldn't look out of place in the office of Mad Men's Stirling Cooper. Perhaps it used to belong to a real-life Joan or Peggy...