I LOVE the bag this year!  I did not go last year but I hated the two bags from years before--the messenger type bags.  This one has real leather on top (LOVE leather!) Anyway, it snaps close at the topwith one snap and is more the size of the catalog bags we can buy on supply order.  There is a mesh water bottle pocket on the one side and has short leather handles that will go over the shoulder if you have small arms and light clothing but has a blck shoulder strap that clips on the metal rings that hold on the leather handles.  It has a small inner pouch too.  I really like this one!