I've spent decades covering lifestyle, from fashion to fine jewelry. Sep 14, 2021, 12:31pm EDT If you’ve managed to streamline your bag down to two or three essentials, bravo. The rest of us carry ...

Here’s some tote-bag history for you: The now-ubiquitous L.L. Bean version, the mother of all tote bags, was created in 1944 to haul ice from the car to the ice chest. Useful! In 2017, tote bags have ...