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Over the past year or so, a growing number of brands have embraced a new handbag shape. It’s neither bowler nor baguette; not a satchel or a saddle.
Skinny and elongated, it has a figure similar to that of a hot dog bun — or a wiener dog. You could call it a dachshund bag.
“I think it’s the newest, freshest shape we have seen in the market in the last three to four years,” said Will Cooper, the senior vice president for women’s designer clothing, shoes and bags at Saks Fifth Avenue. “It feels like something people don’t already have in their wardrobe.”
Khaite, Jil Sander and Tory Burch are all labels that have made bags with the oblong shape, which some in the industry have named “east-west.” Among the first brands to introduce it was Alaïa, which called its version the “teckel” — or “dachshund” in French. (That and the other newer styles are not to be confused with a four-legged bag that Thom Browne released in 2016 and that was named for and made to resemble his wire-haired dachshund, Hector.)
Mr. Cooper said the recent crop of dachshund-shaped bags were “noticeable without being logo-focused,” placing them somewhere between styles associated with the quiet-luxury trend and others with heavy branding. “These are still sophisticated and understated but not in a quiet way,” he said.
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