#1A Touch of Luxury in Your Pocket
Though only 2cm thick, this compact wallet is thoughtfully designed to hold everything you need.
Using the 'skilled techniques' of Handbag Suzuki, which has produced items for many famous brands in Japan for over 50 years, we paid meticulous attention to every detail.
Because a wallet is something you use every day, we aim to create products that make you feel good just by carrying them, enriching your daily life, even if just a little.
#2Full Leather Specification: Combining Luxury with Ultimate Simplicity
The lavish use of genuine leather on both the exterior and interior creates a sense of substantiality and luxury, unexpected for such a small wallet.
While the exterior pursues ultimate simplicity with absolutely no unnecessary adornments, the interior is a masterpiece meticulously crafted down to every stitch.
#3Luxurious Use of Globally Acclaimed Himeji Leather
We lavishly use cowhide produced by Nakajima Leather Industries, a tannery in Himeji, a renowned leather production area.
Please enjoy the strong, supple Himeji leather, crafted with traditional techniques cultivated over 65 years of history, and its beautiful aging process.
#411 Commitments for the L-Zip Wallet
1. We have achieved ultimate simplicity by eliminating all unnecessary adornments. This simplicity demands extremely precise manufacturing techniques, as there is no room to hide any imperfections in stitching or shape.
2. Himeji leather is used for both the exterior and interior. Even hidden details exude a sense of luxury.
3. The leather is chrome-tanned. It is resistant to scratches, water stains, and color fading, allowing you to use it beautifully for a long time.
Below, we verify how resistant the Himeji leather used by HushTug is to scratches, water stains, and wrinkles.
4. By thinning the leather to its limit, we achieved a thickness of just 2cm. In addition, it's about the same size as a typical coin purse, so it fits neatly in your pocket without being bulky.
5. Equipped with a total of 7 pockets (1 coin pocket, 4 card slots, 2 free pockets). Though compact, it's luxuriously designed to hold everything you need, with bills fitting when folded in half.
6. The metal fittings use YKK zippers (EXCELLA black No. 3), highly acclaimed worldwide. Beyond its sleek design, we aimed for smooth closure even when the wallet is full.
7. Japanese artisans' handiwork achieves flawless stitching and edge painting. Due to its simple design, there's no room for error, so perfection is pursued in every detail.
8. The Himeji leather will become uniquely yours, adapting to your hand and developing a rich character with continued use.
9. The height of the coin pocket is adjusted to the millimeter, designed so that 1-yen coins won't spill out. You don't have to worry about coins scattering inside the wallet.
10. To make cards easy to insert and remove, we adjusted the size to the millimeter and finished the interior with satin material instead of leather, achieving both design and functionality.
11. By deliberately cutting the gusset of the coin pocket into a diamond shape, the range of motion is expanded, allowing the wallet to open wide. When closed, all cut edges align parallel, maintaining a beautiful design.
#4Product Size
#5The Story Behind the Collaboration and What We Aim to Achieve
This L-zip wallet is a product that combines the globally acclaimed Himeji leather with the sewing techniques of Handbag Suzuki, a company with over 50 years of history and world-class sewing technology.
Handbag Suzuki faced a crisis of business closure, with orders halved due to the COVID-19 pandemic and chronic successor shortages.
However, they possessed exceptional skills honed over 50 years and a proven track record of manufacturing for numerous high-end brands, making their craftsmanship something to be proud of globally.
Therefore, we decided to collaboratively develop a product that combines HushTug's simple design, the world-renowned Himeji leather, and superior Japanese sewing techniques.
This project was launched to preserve and pass on the world-class Himeji leather and sewing technology to future generations.
The resulting product, carrying this hope, is something HushTug is very proud of.
Please look forward to it with great anticipation.