Hector & Leopold on the Harrogate, for people tired of replacing bags
You have stopped looking for a bag that suits the way you actually live. The Harrogate is our answer: one backpack for the day you really have.
Hector & Leopold · Founders · Est. 2001 · October 2026 · 3 min read
After 25 years, this is our final run of the Harrogate at today’s price. Once these are gone, they will not be made again in this form. It is $107.95 today, against its usual $540.95.
The people who write to us keep saying the same thing: a bag can look right and still not belong in an ordinary day. We hear them. We wanted the Harrogate to feel at home on a city street, on a train and at the edge of the countryside, without changing its character.
We still make them by hand. And we have always refused the old trick of calling one enormous pocket “organised”, because a pocket for everything usually ends up a pocket for nothing. The laptop, the small valuables and the papers each needed a proper place, while the outside stayed one simple, considered piece.
We are not trying to dress up an ordinary day. A good bag should meet you at the door, carry what the day needs and still look right when you get where you are going.
2001
TODAY1A surface made for real use
We chose waxed cotton canvas and crazy horse leather so the bag ages with the journeys it carries, instead of looking untouched forever. On a rainy commute you use the same backpack you take away at the weekend, without treating it like something too good to use.
★★★★★
“I used to own bags I was scared to actually use. This one has been on trains, through town and back, and I have stopped saving it for nicer days.”Sophie, Bristol
2A laptop with its own place
We wanted a quilted home for the laptop, not a hopeful gap in a big compartment. It slides into its sleeve and stays put on a weekday train, even while everything else moves around it.
★★★★★
“My laptop used to travel wrapped in a scarf. Now it goes straight into the padded sleeve and I never move it just to reach my keys.”Daniel, Glasgow
3Small things, found at once
Small valuables get a zipped inner pocket and everyday bits get their own slots. At the school gate you find what you need without tipping the main compartment out onto the car seat.
★★★★★
“No more patting every pocket at the school gate hoping my keys are in one of them. The zipped inner pocket is the first place I look now.”Priya, Leeds
4A front pocket for papers
The outside needed room for the papers that turn up on a Monday, not a second bag to carry them in. Rushing through an airport, they stay flat in the front flap pocket instead of being crushed in the main compartment.
★★★★★
“My documents no longer get rolled into a tube to keep them from bending. They stay flat in the front pocket while I wait at the gate.”Oliver, Brighton
5A simple opening, useful sides
The main opening stays simple: a drawstring under a buckled leather flap. At the café counter, the side flap pockets hold the small things you reach for, so you never open the whole bag just to find your phone.
★★★★★
“I no longer dig through the main bag every time the queue moves. My phone is right there in a side pocket.”Mae, Cardiff
6A private place at the back
A hidden zipped pocket sits against your back for the things you would rather not leave on show. Your wallet finally has a safe home inside the bag, instead of an easy outer pocket.
★★★★★
“My partner noticed I no longer empty the whole bag by the door looking for my keys. I even stopped carrying a separate little purse, because the Harrogate already has a pocket for it.”Helen, Manchester
The Harrogate, against the leather backpacks you have been buying
The usual high-street backpack
Keys lost in the loose middle
The laptop moved to reach anything else
Papers bent in the main compartment
Every small thing means opening everything
The Harrogate
Keys in the zipped inner pocket
The laptop in its own quilted sleeve
Papers flat in the front flap pocket
Small things in the side flap pockets
I no longer pack a little holdall when I go away for the night. Everything I need already fits in the Harrogate.
Why the last Harrogates are here
We have made ready-made bags since 2001. This is the last run of the Harrogate at today’s price, so the final pieces are being cleared. It is not the end of Hector and Leopold, just the end of this bag being offered this way.
The saving is real because these are the last ones: the Harrogate is $107.95, down from its usual $540.95.
Once the final stock is gone, it will not come back in this form. If it fits the life you already live, it is worth checking while one is still here.
★★★★★
“For years I bought another high-street backpack and called it good enough. The Harrogate fits the way I travel, and I no longer take a second tote for a two-night trip.”Nina, York
The 4.8 stars across more than 5,500 reviews are not ours. They come from the people who carried these bags and took the time to write.
We are proud of every one we made. If this is the backpack that finally fits how you live, take a look. We would rather you found the right bag than simply bought the last one.
Check whether a Harrogate is still here
★★★★★ 4.8 / 5 from 5,500+ reviews
$540.95$107.95
- Final run at this price
- $107.95, down from $540.95
- 30-day returns
The usual high-street bag that lasts two winters, against the Harrogate at $107.95, down from $540.95.
Check availabilityAbout the writers. Hector and Leopold founded their workshop together in 2001, and they still make leather bags by hand.