A Letter From June · Co-Founder of Dorothy & June

Charleston, South Carolina · August 2026

I am June, and my partner Dorothy and I started this little Charleston shop 22 years ago, a few streets back from the harbour. In all that time we have made a great many bags. Eleonora's Everyday Carry is the one I reach for no matter what the day holds — the school run, the client meeting, the flight home.

It is the bag I carry when I want to look like I planned my morning, and I promise you I did not, the one women stop me about at the farmers market. And of everything we are clearing as we close the shop and move online, it is the one I most wanted to write to you about.

For years I watched the same thing happen to women our age. Getting out the door had quietly become a small ordeal. A structured tote for the office that looked wrong at pickup, a soft weekend bag that looked wrong in a client meeting, a good bag you were almost afraid to actually use. Most mornings you grabbed whatever was already loaded with your wallet and called it fine. Not right. Fine. I never accepted that this was the best we could do. Eleonora's Everyday Carry is my answer, and I insisted on six things when we made it, usually with a tannery that wanted me to do the cheaper thing instead.

Eleonora's Everyday Carry, against the bag drawer you've been digging through

You can grab something from a closet full of bags almost any morning. I know, because for years that is exactly what I did. Here is the difference, laid out plainly.

I refuse to make a bag that asks a woman to choose between a tote too stiff for real life and one that falls apart within a year. This is the bag built to be used, and that is the whole reason it exists.

Why it is clearing now

We are closing the Charleston shop after twenty-two years and moving Dorothy & June online, so the whole leather collection is clearing, this bag with it. It is now $59.99, from $120.00, and when you take more than one the discount stacks further, up to 30 percent on top.

I will be plain about it. Each one of these bags carries four decades of leatherworking technique in its stitching, buckle by buckle hand-attached the same way our craftspeople have always done it. Once we hand back the keys, that is not a line we are keeping running somewhere else. When this batch is gone, so is the bag.

If twenty-two years of running this little shop has taught me anything, it is that a woman who carries this bag once usually comes back for a second color. That is the quiet bet I am placing in writing you this letter at $59.99.

Finished and inspected by hand, the way every bag has left this shop for 22 years.

It is the bag I am proudest of in 22 years. I would rather it go to a woman who will actually use it than sit folded in tissue paper in a box.

The reviews say the same things I have, over and over. 4.8 stars across 896 women. If you have ever wanted to reach for one bag in the morning with relief instead of a decision, this is the one I would put in your hands myself, while the colors are still in stock.

— June