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Linea Viaggio Duffel Bag

From the 1985 Holiday Catalog

These bags were available from Spring 1985 through Spring 1986.

Abridged from the catalog: “Traveling with natural fabrics is as dear to our hearts as the lure of the open road. As the premier travel clothing business in the nation, we have certain standards to uphold. Up til now, we’ve been able to offer very few travel bags. The reason, to be frank, is that with bags-unlike clothing-synthetics seem to have had the edge (lighter, more flexible, more durable); but the idea of selling synthetic bags to our astute and demanding customers was about as appealing as wearing long polyester underwear in the jungle. Finally, we’ve assembled a combination of natural materials that puts synthetics to shame.
We took our designs to a punctilious craftsman on a back street in Firenze and worked for weeks until we got the bags just right. In honor of the Italian workmanship, we named our new bags Linea Viaggio.”

In the Wild Company biography Patricia Ziegler describes this design process of building samples out of paper and the pleasure she had working with the craftsman to get them just right.

About The Author

Robyn Adams
Robyn's fascination with Banana Republic began in 1984 when her Alaskan adventurer father began buying the clothing and giving her the catalogs. She loved the clothes and as an artist she was drawn to the illustrations. She went on to study illustration at art college in BR's hometown of San Francisco and worked for years as a background artist for animation. She is now based in Oakland, CA as a graphic designer and illustrator with Secret Fan Base . She's been collecting and archiving at Abandoned Republic since 2011.

4 Comments

  • rahul on May 25, 2023

    Thanks to you

  • Clear Moda on May 25, 2023

    I think this was the first duffle bag, like the great-grandfather of all duffle bags.

  • The Store Bags on May 30, 2023

    Duffle bags are awesome because they have lots of space. We can put lots of things under it, according to other bags. This bag is very helpful for traveling. I think this is a very old duffle bag.

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