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What The Row Size Numbers Mean: Margaux 10, 12, 15 and Beyond

At most luxury houses the sizes are named with adjectives. You are offered a Mini, a Small, a Medium and, when the house is feeling expansive, a Jumbo, and not one of those words pins itself to anything measurable. Across a large part of its line The Row does something quietly different, and the moment you notice it the catalogue becomes much simpler to read. The number sitting in a model name is the bag’s width in inches. Margaux 10 measures ten inches across. Margaux 12 measures twelve. That one fact does more practical work than any amount of styling copy, and it runs through this explainer from start to finish.

This convention extends past the flagship. It takes in Margaux 10, 12, 15 and 17, India 10.00, 12.00 and 15.75, Agnes 12 and 15, Sofia 8.75 and 10, and Marlo 12 and 14. The decimals are the tell: nobody writes 15.75 unless the figure is meant literally. What follows is how far the rule holds, where it bends, what the number leaves out, and how to turn it into a decision when you are choosing between two sizes of the same bag.

The rule, put plainly

Read the number in the name, add the word inches, and that is the width you get. That is the whole system, and it holds consistently enough across the numbered families to count as a rule rather than a fluke. It is refreshingly honest labelling, since it closes the gap between what a size sounds like and what it measures. A Small from one house can be roomier than a Medium from another, but ten inches is ten inches anywhere. For anyone measuring The Row bags against something already in the wardrobe, it turns the comparison into arithmetic rather than guessing. It also explains why the brand can run four sizes of one silhouette without ysl bags confusing anybody.

What the number will not tell you

Width is one dimension of three, and the other two do not scale with it in any predictable way. Set the two Soft Margaux sizes with official figures behind them side by side: the 10 measures 10 x 7 x 7.5 in and the 12 measures 12 x 9 x 7.5 in. The depth is identical at 7.5 inches, so the larger bag is not a straight scaling of the smaller one. What really changes is the height, up by two inches, and the width, up by the same. In practice that means stepping up a size gives you a taller mouth and more length rather than a deeper bag. Anyone expecting the 12 to swallow twice as much as the 10 will find the difference slighter than the numbers imply.

The handle drop stays constant too, at five inches on both Soft Margaux sizes, which is another thing the model number keeps to itself. Five inches gives you a hand-carry or crook-of-the-elbow drop and not a shoulder one, which is exactly why both sizes ship with a removable shoulder strap. The interior fittings are different too, since the 10 has a single card slot while the 12 adds a second plus a zip pocket. Day to day, details like those count for more than an inch of width. Use the number to place the bag on a scale, then read the specification to learn what it does.

The Margaux Shoulder 12, the place the rule bends

One current model breaks the pattern and it is worth spelling out rather than quietly. The Margaux Shoulder 12 carries a twelve in its name, but the brand lists its dimensions as 14.75 x 9 x 5 in. The width in the name and the width in the specification disagree, so the number is working as a family size rather than as a literal external measurement on this one. That is consistent with what the silhouette does, since it is a reworked shape with elongated tubular handles and narrowed gusseted side panels rather than a straightforward scaling of the tote. Generalise the lesson, then, and use the number as a starting point before confirming against published dimensions and committing. Where a listing gives no dimensions at all, treat the number as a pointer rather than a measurement.

What those widths actually hold

Translating inches into daily use is the step most guides leave out. Anything under ten inches wide is a phone, cardholder, keys and lipstick affair, the domain of the Sofia 8.75 and the small clutches. Ten inches is the archetypal small day bag, enough for a compact wallet, a phone, sunglasses and a slim pouch without distortion. Twelve inches is the point where a bag starts absorbing a paperback, a small notebook, a folded scarf and a full-size wallet together. A working width is fourteen to fifteen inches, the point at which documents and a tablet cease to be a squeeze. Seventeen inches, as on the Margaux 17, reads as a travel dimension rather than an everyday one.

• 8.75 to 10 in: evening, errands and anything where you want the bag to disappear.
• 12 in: the most versatile width on offer and the one most buyers end up choosing.
• 14 to 15 in: work, travel to work and days when other people’s things travel with you.
• 17 in: travel and overnight use, where soft structure counts as a feature rather than a compromise.

Price climbs with width, but material moves faster

Size and price move together, though not as steeply as you might expect. Using observed 2026 market prices, the Soft Margaux 10 sits at $3,650 and the Soft Margaux 12 at $4,350, so two inches of width costs about $700. Observed prices put Marlo 12 at $3,600 and $4,900 depending on the version and Marlo 14 at $5,300, a much larger step for the same two inches. Material makes bigger jumps than size does: India 10.00 is $3,850 in leather against $5,370 in suede, and Agnes 15 runs $5,000 in leather, $5,800 in suede and $4,300 in a canvas blend. Agnes 12 sits at $4,400, meaning the leather Agnes 15 costs only $600 more for three additional inches. If you are optimising spend, the material is the bigger financial decision and the width is the bigger practical one.

The bags with no number

Plenty of the line sits outside this system, and mixing the two conventions is where the confusion starts. Words rather than inches govern the Park Tote family, which runs Small, Medium, Large and XL alongside the N/S Park Tote and Park Tote Three. Small bags like the 90’s Bag, the Half Moon and the Bourse Clutch carry no size marker. For those the dimensions are the only guide, so the Bourse Clutch is listed at 10.2 x 6.5 x 2.3 in, while the Half Moon is given officially as 8 x 13.5 x 2.5 in, with other listings differing enough that the figure is best treated as approximate. No rule governs the archive models either, the Camden measuring roughly 9 x 12.5 x 5.25 in despite carrying no number. Orientation shorthand is what the N/S and E/W prefixes provide, generally read as north-south for taller shapes and east-west for wider ones.

Turning inches into a decision

The practical value of a literal sizing system is that it can be checked before you buy. Take a bag you already own and like, measure it, and set its width against the number in the model name you are considering. Repeat it for the widest thing you carry routinely, whether a laptop, a folder or a water bottle, then add an inch of tolerance for the soft sides. Bear in mind that these are unstructured shapes in most cases, so a bag looks smaller when empty and fuller in use than any flat measurement suggests. If you are between sizes on a soft silhouette, the smaller one usually looks better and the larger one usually serves better. That trade-off, rather than the number itself, is the actual choice in front of you when you buy row handbags in a numbered family.