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

At most luxury houses the sizes are named with adjectives. A Mini, a Small, a Medium and, if the house is feeling expansive, a Jumbo: and none of them means anything 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 carried in a model name is the bag’s width in inches. Margaux 10 comes in at ten inches across. Margaux 12 is twelve inches. That one fact does more practical work than any amount of styling copy, and it runs through this explainer throughout.

The convention reaches well beyond the flagship. The roll call runs 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 giveaway: nobody writes 15.75 unless the figure is meant to be read literally. Below: how far the rule goes, where it bends, what the number leaves out, and how to turn it into a decision when you are deciding between two sizes of the same bag.

The rule, stated simply

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 unusually honest labelling, because it row tote bag erases 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 comparing The Row bags to something already in their wardrobe, that makes the comparison arithmetic rather than guessing. It also explains how the brand can run four sizes of a single silhouette without confusing anybody.

What the number misses

One dimension of three is width, and the remaining two will not scale with it in any predictable way. Place 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 no proportional enlargement of the smaller one. Height is what shifts, by two inches, and width moves with it by the same. In practice that means stepping up a size gives you a taller opening 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 does not tell you. Five inches is a hand-carry or crook-of-the-elbow drop rather than a shoulder drop, and both sizes come with a removable shoulder strap to do the rest. Fittings inside differ as well: a single card slot on the 10, 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 know how it behaves.

The Margaux Shoulder 12, and where the rule bends

One model in the current line bends the pattern, and that is worth stating clearly 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. Name width and specification width do not match here, so on this model the number works as a family size rather than a literal external measurement. It squares with the silhouette itself, a reworked shape with elongated tubular handles and narrowed gusseted side panels rather than a straightforward scaling of the tote. The lesson generalises: treat the number as a starting point, then confirm against published dimensions before you commit. If a listing offers no dimensions at all, the number is a guide and not a measurement.

What each width holds in practice

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 home ground of the Sofia 8.75 and the small clutches. At ten inches you have the standard small day bag, taking a compact wallet, a phone, sunglasses and a slim pouch without distortion. At twelve inches a bag begins swallowing a paperback, a small notebook, a folded scarf and a full-size wallet all at once. A working width is fourteen to fifteen inches, the point at which documents and a tablet are no longer 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: evening, errands and anything where you want the bag to disappear.
• 12 in: the most versatile width in the line and the one most buyers settle on.
• 14 to 15 in: working days, commuting and the days you end up carrying other people’s things too.
• 17 in: travel and overnight use, where soft structure is a feature rather than a compromise.

Price rises with width, but material moves faster

Size and price track each other, though not as aggressively as you might expect. On observed 2026 market prices, the Soft Margaux 10 sits at $3,650 and the Soft Margaux 12 at $4,350, which puts two inches of width at 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. Material moves in bigger jumps than size does, since 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, so 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 that carry no number

Much of the line sits outside this system, and it is the mixing of the two conventions that breeds confusion. The Park Tote family deals in 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 any size marker at all. 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. The N/S and E/W prefixes are shorthand for orientation, typically read as north-south for taller shapes and east-west for wider ones.

From inches to a decision

A literal sizing system proves itself because you can test it 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 implies. 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.