£60.00
If you’re poop decked with pirating and now getting ready to relax on vacation in Bedlam-sur-Mer (or planning a visit to us to take advantage of our slow puncture paddling pool), you’ll be wanting the Bedlam Beach Bag of Summer ‘26.
In a heavier canvas than the Jack Sack, it has a sturdy gusset, and we all love one of those. Stops your bottles of vino from listing port side. As ever, we give you the indispensable zip up pochette in unbleached canvas, for keys and a 2p piece for the payphone (ahhh, I was heat-stroked back to the summer of ‘76 for a moment there).
We’ve also put in a second canvas divider in grey, the full depth of the bag (42cm), for your flip flops and swimming togs.
Round the sturdy webbing handles is a little chain of shells and star fish, and another clip for something you might need to keep handy.
Opens to 50cm but stands 32cm at base due to the aforementioned gusset.
Dark blue embroidered in gold with, “Earl of Bedlam depuis deux mille dix avoir du chic”…
which is to say, “EoB stylin’ it out since 2010”.
I had expected to post this hours ago but underestimated how long it would take to get a thick needle through layers of canvas. On the local news a few evenings ago, they covered the huge canvas sail from Nelson’s warship Victory, discovered under piles of gym mats. About to go on display in Portsmouth, it was all sewn by hand, in awe they did declare. I immediately pictured myself cross legged on deck sewing like a sailor.
If the number of blisters now on my finger were factored in, it would be considerably more.