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by Nina Lalli | email: threadster@villagevoice.com

The Best Cheap Grocery/Beach Bags

Posted by Nina Lalli at 5:25 PM, August 3, 2007

This $15 Anya Hindmarch canvas shopping bag, with its cute motto and sailor concept, has for some unknown reason sparked a major kerfuffle. Being a rather messy lady, we prefer water-resistant to white canvas. Here are some alternatives that we prefer, for picking up dirty (read: organic) veggies from our CSA, or going to the beach.



Susan Biji grocery bag, nylon, from fredflare.com, $28 each.

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LL Bean's water-resistant, polyester hunter's tote is no joke. It looks real good with red monogramming, by the way. Medium, large, and extra-large are $19, 24, and 30.

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Jack Spade's Canal Street Coal Bag is made out of the same plastic that those cheap schleppy bags are made from, but this one is all cool looking and not cheap anymore. Go figure. $85 each.

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I don't see how any of these simple tote bags, canvas, poly, plastic and nylon, which run from $19 to much higher, would qualify as 'cheap.' Not even in NYC, where decent and serviceable tote bags can be had for much less.

Posted by: Steve at August 4, 2007 6:35 PM

Great lightweight, cotton tote bags that hold a A LOT of groceries and look cool can be had for $16 at www.minusbags.com. They are also at Park Natural in Carroll Gardens and Liberty House on the Upper West Side.

Posted by: martha at August 6, 2007 6:11 PM

And then there are Baggu Bags, which are actually cheap (at $8 a pop) and chic. I wrote about them here: http://thefashioninformer.typepad.com/informer/2007/06/do-you-baggu.html

Posted by: The Fashion Informer at August 6, 2007 9:42 PM

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