Hermes Maillon To Go Wallet Handmade In Epsom Calfskin Leather Gold Hardware M4 Gris Pale

What do you actually do with twenty-four centimetres of wallet? You put a phone in it, which is the answer most people arrive at after a week, and then you wonder why the shape is not more common. Gris Pale, a light warm grey with a touch of stone, is the colour that shows these proportions best.

The heat-pressed grain keeps the long panel smooth and slightly architectural; there is no drape in this leather, so the wallet slides into a tote or the inner pocket of a blazer without folding around whatever sits next to it. Gold fittings against pale grey add a warmth that silver would have taken away.

Laid out: phone across the length, four cards at one end, notes at the other, coins and a key in the shallow middle. Ten centimetres of width means nothing shifts out of place in a day of use, and because the whole thing is two and a half centimetres thick it never prints its shape through a jacket.

Where it gives ground: pale colours show the odd ink transfer if a freshly printed receipt goes in with it, and the long flap takes the wear of constant opening. Mine has a faint crease at the hinge after five months that I have long since stopped noticing.

Worn with denim or grey wool it dissolves into the outfit; worn with a dark suit it becomes the lightest point of the whole look.