I Love My Privacy—So, Please, Enough With the Mesh Accessories

I Love My Privacy—So, Please, Enough With the Mesh Accessories

I'm an extremely private person — always have been! My friends often joke that I'm like a clam: usually closed, although I open up from time to time. what can i say I don't like people in my business, and have been that way for as long as I can remember. Now, two summer fashion trends are threatening my inner happiness: mesh shoes and, even worse, mesh bags.

It's a hermit's worst nightmare: Designers have, suddenly, decided it's chic to expose practically everything about yourself — including your fingers and the dirt inside your handbag. Surprisingly, mesh boots are a look I can get behind. This season's trendy mesh-alloy flats—worn by stars like Katie Holmes, Jennifer Lawrence, and Dakota Johnson—are a chic alternative to summer sandals that also show off your bare feet. But it's the mesh handbag trend that has me worried. What is in my bag is for me to know and not for you.

Think about it: Why do you, a perfect stranger, need to know what I carry around in my daily life? Do you really know my secret stash of candy, my ten thousand CVS receipts, and my secret pineapple-flavored vape? Carrying around a mesh bag is basically an invitation to your cluttered brain—and as someone who enjoys keeping my secrets, I'd rather have it on full display without any accessories. Would love to get out.

That's not to say I don't think a mesh bag can be chic. Sure, if you're just carrying lip gloss, a sleek card holder, and your keys, a see-through bag will definitely look cool. (I actually found the little mesh pouches from Provenza Schuler's spring 2024 collection quite cute.) Dua Lipa recently stepped out in an Alaïa mesh style, and her bag—barely full of any accessories— Air — felt this was a recent update. Classic shoulder bag silhouette.

But, personally, I can never do it. I rotate a lot of random items daily — face mist! lost! Eye drops!—always being able to relieve the sight easily. Maybe I should take the mesh bag trend as a call to action to streamline my life and become a minimalist who only enjoys the everyday necessities. But, honestly, I don't want to change my chaotic self (I love too much, I'm sued), and I'd rather keep my constant sense of misogyny a secret. So, please, fashion: enough with mesh! Let me be a mess in peace.