The short answer on Mk Laptop Bag is below, and the honest version is that it depends on two or three things rather than one. Small production runs cost more per unit, which is why a lesser-known label can be dearer than a famous one. Cost per wear is the only figure that matters, and it favours the plain expensive thing over the interesting cheap one. A strap drop under 22cm will not clear a winter coat. Worth saying plainly: our partner brands do not stock mk laptop bag itself, so what follows is the bags we would actually put with it rather than links we cannot stand behind. The groups below run from the decision that matters most to the ones you make afterwards.

What decides this is capacity, closure and strap drop. Everything else is preference. Two from the first group show the range: The Sak's De Young Tote - Leather - Mahogany at $149, and Behno's RUTH MINI CROSSBODY NAPPA BLACK at $245. The first is the easy entry point; the second is where the money goes. Unlined canvas is lighter but shows every mark; treat it before first use. Leather darkens where your hand sits, which is not damage; it is the bag settling. A higher price mostly buys materials and finishing, and occasionally it buys nothing at all.

One structured bag does more work than three soft ones. Match the bag to the day, not the outfit. From the second group, The Sak's Los Feliz Medium Tote - Hand Crochet - Denim Tonal Straw ($199) is the one that earns its place, because it works in more than one context without being restyled. The third group is smaller and deliberately narrower, bags, for the decisions you make after the main one. None of this needs the whole group. One piece from each is usually enough.

There are 20 bags here from 13 brands, $25 to $325, all in stock when this was written. We would not buy all of them, and neither should you. Caraa's Stroller Pouch at $25 is the low-risk way in, and Antler USA's Carry-on with Pocket Luggage in Indigo Blue - Icon Stripe at $325 only makes sense if this is a category you already use constantly. To be straight about it, if you came here only for mk laptop bag, this page will not solve that. It will solve what goes around it. Nothing here is included because it is famous, and price is not used as a proxy for quality anywhere on this page. If you take one thing away: pay for the thing that touches your body and economise on the thing that sits on top of it.