For reasons still unclear to me I was given a db clay wallet by Lisa Bettany. Thanks go out to both of them.
I'm ridiculously picky when it comes to wallets. I think I've had about five in my entire life and I wear them to shreds. I've never really had one that I've liked for an extended period of time, but I see that changing with this beast.
As a proud new owner of the db clay Orange Hallways Version 3.1 (gotta love an accessory that has a longer name than it's owner) I can seriously recommend these bad boys. The actual wallet style is simple, it's a single fold with plenty of room for bills and four standard slots of cards and your typical somewhat-hidden-underneath-the-normal-slots-slots. I don't carry cash so I have a couple extra cards shoved in the bill area.
There are a couple of things that make the wallet cooler than it's utilitarian purposes. First is the material, something db clay calls Tope, which is apparently eco-friendly and super strong. The material feels awesome to the hand, has a nice texture and feels solid and I can see it lasting. The other cool thing is, obviously, the print. I dig the idea of a picture for a print. The picture is accredited to simply Graeme in the card that accompanied the wallet, but props to this mystery-person and whoever decided to slap the image on a wallet.
Also happy to support a company (in the future I may actually purchase one of these wallets) based right here in sunny NE Portland. I'm not sure where exactly they're located but it can't be too terribly far from my house, which I find pretty cool for no other reason than cred-by-association.
This is probably the longest post I've written, and it's about a wallet. Go figure. Thanks Lisa, and thanks db clay.
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