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

Most luxury houses reach for adjectives when they size their bags. You get a Mini, a Small, a Medium and, if the house is feeling expansive, a Jumbo, and none of those words commits to a thing you can measure. The Row takes a quietly different route across a large part of its line, and noticing it makes the whole catalogue simpler to navigate. The number attached to a model name is the bag’s width in inches. Margaux 10 measures ten inches across. Margaux 12 is twelve inches. That single fact does more practical work than any amount of styling copy, and it is the spine of this explainer.

The convention reaches well beyond the flagship. It reaches across 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 give it away, because nobody writes 15.75 unless the figure is meant to be read literally. What follows is how far the rule goes, 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, stated plainly

Take the number in the name, add the word inches, and you have the bag’s width. That is the entire system, and it is applied consistently enough across the numbered families to be treated as a rule rather than a coincidence. The labelling is unusually honest, because the gap between what a size sounds like and what it measures simply goes. A Small the row bag designer top handle from one house can be bigger than a Medium from another, but ten inches is ten inches anywhere. For anyone comparing The Row bags to something already in their wardrobe, that makes the comparison arithmetic rather than estimation. It also explains why the brand can run four sizes of one silhouette without confusing anyone.

What the number does not tell you

Width is only one of three dimensions, and the other two scale with it in no predictable way at all. Take the two Soft Margaux sizes that have official figures behind them, since the 10 measures 10 x 7 x 7.5 in and the 12 measures 12 x 9 x 7.5 in. The depth stays identical at 7.5 inches, so the bigger bag is not a proportional enlargement of the smaller one. Height is what changes, by two inches, and width moves with it by the same. In practice that means stepping up a size gives you a taller mouth and more length rather than a deeper bag. If you expect the 12 to hold twice what the 10 holds, the difference will be slighter than the numbers imply.

The handle drop is constant as well, at five inches on both Soft Margaux sizes, and that is another thing the model number leaves out. Five inches gives you a hand-carry or crook-of-the-elbow drop and not a shoulder one, which is why both sizes ship with a removable shoulder strap. Interior fittings are different too: the 10 has a single card slot while the 12 adds a second plus a zip pocket. Day to day, details like those matter more than an inch of width. Read the number to place the bag on a scale, then read the specification to understand what it does.

Where the rule bends: the Margaux Shoulder 12

One model in the current line departs from the pattern, and that is worth stating clearly rather than quietly. A twelve sits in the name of the Margaux Shoulder 12, but the brand lists its dimensions as 14.75 x 9 x 5 in. Name width and specification width do not match here, so on this model the number serves as a family size rather than a literal external measurement. 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 simple scaling of the tote. So generalise the lesson, and use the number as a starting point before confirming against published dimensions and committing. If a listing offers no dimensions at all, the number is an indication and not a measurement.

What each width actually holds

Turning inches into daily use is the step most guides pass over. Anything under ten inches wide is a phone, cardholder, keys and lipstick kit, the domain of the Sofia 8.75 and the small clutches. Ten inches is the classic small day bag, room enough for a compact wallet, a phone, sunglasses and a slim pouch without distortion. At twelve inches a bag begins 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 stop being a squeeze. Seventeen inches, as on the Margaux 17, reads as a weekend and travel dimension rather than an everyday one.

• 8.75 to 10 in: evenings, errands and anything where the bag should disappear.
• 12 in: the most versatile width in the line and the one most buyers settle on.
• 14 to 15 in: work, commuting and days when you carry other people’s things too.
• 17 in: travel and overnight use, where soft structure is a feature rather than a compromise.

Price tracks width, but material moves faster still

The two track each other, size and price, though more gently than you might assume. 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 far bigger step for the same two inches. Larger jumps come from material than from size: India 10.00 is $3,850 in leather against $5,370 in suede, while 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 models that carry no number

A good deal of the line sits outside this system, and mixing the two conventions is where confusion begins. The Park Tote family uses words rather than inches, running Small, Medium, Large and XL alongside the N/S Park Tote and Park Tote Three. The 90’s Bag, the Half Moon and the Bourse Clutch are small bags named without a size marker of any kind. For those, dimensions are the only guide: 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 read as approximate. Archive models follow no rule either, and the Camden measures roughly 9 x 12.5 x 5.25 in despite having no number. The N/S and E/W prefixes are shorthand for orientation, habitually read as north-south for taller shapes and east-west for wider ones.

How to turn inches into a decision

What makes a literal sizing system useful is that you can prove it before buying. Measure a bag you already own and like, then compare its width against the number in the model name you are considering. Do the same with the widest thing you routinely carry, be it a laptop, a folder or a water bottle, and 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. When you are between sizes on a soft silhouette, the smaller one tends to look better and the larger one tends to perform better. That trade-off, rather than the number itself, is the real choice in front of you when you buy row handbags in a numbered family.