The Jill-E Career Bag #Fashion #Photography

The perfect handbag should be two things, useful and beautiful. Of course useful depends on what your personal needs are, and beautiful depends on your taste. The Jill-E Career bag is an attractive, structured leather bag that would fit well into most wardrobes, and it’s definitely useful for the career gal.

The Jill-E Career Bag is leather and comes in four neutral color options. The one featured here is Starfish. It’s very well made and would fit a small laptop (up to 12 inches), any sized tablet, paperwork/files that a working girl may need for her job, and more. There are three main compartments, with the center compartment featuring spots for a phone, wallet, etc and it’s pretty roomy. The section for the tablet is padded for protection, and it’s adjustable. The side compartments make it easy to compartmentalize their use, so a mom can store some children books or diaper paraphernalia in one section, for example- it’s very versatile.

These days the three compartment style is basically something I seek out in handbags, because it totally separates your handbag into independant sections, and it’s incredibly useful. Jill-E makes a camera insert that fits into the center compartment of the Career Bag, so it could do double duty as a camera bag as well if your camera fits. It has a handle, shoulder strap, netted pockets inside the lid, a zippered outside pocket, and two removeable padded separators.

I currently shoot with a Nikon D700, and it does not fit into the camera insert or Career bag unless I take the lens off and turn it sideways. Because I want my camera always ready at a moment’s notice, carrying my camera around without the lens on is not practical for me, so I couldn’t use the Jill-E career bag as a camera bag. If you have a smaller dSLR, a micro 4/3 camera or a point and shoot, both the bag and camera insert would be fine, so keep in mind that if your camera has a larger body, it probably will not fit with a lens on.

The verdict:
The Jill-e Career Bag is an excellent career bag for the woman on the go who needs to carry her tech gadgets with her. With the cross body strap and three compartments, it’s also great for busy work at home moms who need to carry a laptop to work on and an iPad to keep the kids busy at the same time, along with everything else they need for their children. It won’t be a camera bag for me on days I carry my full frame camera, but for anyone with a smaller camera it can do double duty as a camera bag too.