An overnight bag with handle and straps, in #16 waxed canvas.

These bags are made from #16 premium cotton duck canvas infused with paraffin wax — the same material tradesmen have used for a century, for the same reason. Waxed canvas sheds water, takes abrasion without tearing, and gets better with age rather than worse. A nylon bag looks new until the day it splits; a waxed canvas bag looks used from month two and lasts a decade.

Sized for a night or two away — the bag you actually carry into a motel or a friend's spare room, rather than dragging a full duffle in. It also handles being thrown in a truck bed in the rain, which most overnight bags do not.

Heavy-duty zippers, rugged nylon straps, oversized buckles and double-stitched reinforced handles — the parts that fail first on cheap bags are the parts built heaviest here.