Item of the Day: Kate Spade’s Austin Paola Wallet

For the past few years, I haven’t so much had a wallet as I’ve had a purse with a maelstrom of contents; bills, credit cards, and lip glosses sometimes stuck in the side pocket, keys usually requiring a dig through various pieces of old receipt flotsam and shopping list jetsam.

I am, for all intensive purposes, an adult. I need a wallet, and probably something a little more subdued than my last wallet, a shiny green Dior that looked like a skinned Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

With its metallic body balanced by earthy woven strips of yarn, this Kate Spade wallet is practical without killing my soul.

On sale at $165 (originally $275).