Hermes Kelly Classique To Go Wallet Handmade In Epsom Calfskin Leather Silver Hardware G0 Orange Field

Orange Field is not the orange you picture when you hear the name of this house. It sits a shade brighter and more yellow, closer to the fruit than to a traffic cone, and against the silver clasp and the small silver stud of the strap it reads modern rather than retro, which is exactly why I chose it over yet another neutral.

The shape is the Kelly Classique To Go wallet: roughly nineteen centimetres across, eleven and a half deep when open, and only 1.5 cm thick when shut, so it behaves like a long wallet and a clutch at once. Epsom gives it a taut, evenly stamped surface that resists scratching, and the heat-stamping is also why the colour comes out so level and saturated across the whole piece.

What fits: cards in the slots along the spine, a long channel for notes and receipts, and a zipped section for coins and a spare key. In daily rotation I take it out of a tote at the coffee counter and it looks like a small bag in its own right. The caveat with a colour this saturated is edge wear, since bright Epsom shows a lighter rub at the corners before black or grey ever would, so I keep it out of tight pockets.

It has been to supermarkets, a birthday dinner and one very long train ride, and all it has asked of me is a wipe to clear the odd fingerprint. If your wardrobe runs on denim and neutrals, this is the piece that stops it reading like a uniform.