I've had this bag for a long time, I think I got it from my mother. It's served me well, it's been a bag for all seasons, to the beach in the summer, to the mountains in the winter, although never anywhere in the fall. Now it's outside in the rain, waiting to be tucked into the trash. It wasn't the bag that was lost in the bellmans closet, but it was the bag that I carried to Washington, Oregon and when I went back to CA with my tail between my legs when I was 19. Now it's faded and without a zipper,