19 Travel Duffel Bags To Freshen Up Your Travel Style

Finding a good duffel bag should be priority number one when it comes to travel gear. A duffel/weekender/hands-free carry-on should be just oversized enough and just flexible enough to fulfill all of your overpacking dreams without having to dedicate yourself to a bulky roller suitcase. But considering the differences in durability, size, weight distribution, and (equally as important) style, a travel bag can make or break even the shortest of trips. After all, the last thing you need to face mid-travel is back pain from uncomfortable straps or your cheap, nylon number ripping at the seams.

If sore shoulders and a bag that's seen better days en route to your weekend retreat doesn't sound like your cup of tea, then it's time to consider refreshing your go-to luggage. Ahead are 19 duffel bags that will serve to better your travel style, not cramp it. Whether you're packing a bag for a bon voyage or just a morning commute to the gym, you deserve to give yourself a break with these hassle-free options.

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Everlane The ReNew Transit Weekender

Since the brand's beloved Twill Weekender bag is sold out, we found the next best thing: the ReNew Transit Weekender. This duffel is great for vacays, but can also be put to use as an everyday commuter bag (if you like to pack heavy).

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Everlane The ReNew Transit Weekender, $, available at Everlane

Lo & Sons Catalina Deluxe Tote

R29 readers are no stranger to Lo & Sons' quality boutique bags. The brand's Catalina collection is ideal for getaways. Durable enough for whatever adventures you take it on, features like a bottom pocket and adjustable compartments and straps make it a savvy traveler's best friend.

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Lo & Sons The Catalina Deluxe Tote, $, available at Lo & Sons

Lululemon Curved Lines Large Duffle Bag 29.5L

Pockets, pockets, and more pockets. Lululemon's large duffel bag is here to keep every one of your essentials accessible and organized and make your travels easy as pie.

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Lululemon Curved Lines Large Duffle Bag, $, available at Lululemon

Nike Brasilia

For a more affordable option, shop Nike's large and in charge Brasilia bag. According to one reviewer, it's, "fairly large and fits all [their] needs."

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Nike Nike Brasilia, $, available at Nike

July Daybreak Weekender

July is best known for its sleek and lightweight rolling luggage, but we can't forget about the brand's impressive collection of travel bags. The classic Daybreak Weekender is perfect for anyone looking to travel in style (hello, fancy leather handles).

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July Daybreak Weekender, $, available at July

Herschel Novel Duffle

We're giving this duffel extra props for its nifty shoe compartment and 14 unique colorways.

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Herschel Herschel Novel Duffle, $, available at Herschel

Calpak Hue Duffel Bag

Described as a minimalist duffel with maximum style, Calpak's Hue bag features a luggage sleeve, laptop compartment, discreet cell phone pocket, and exterior side handles.

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Calpak Hue Duffel Bag, $, available at Calpak

WANDF Foldable Travel Duffel Bag

Not all duffel bags are created fancy — some were made to meet Spirit Airlines carry-on guidelines and save you from tricky baggage fees. Seriously, check out our Amazon viral review here.

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WANDF Foldable Travel Duffel Bag, $, available at Amazon

Paravel Main Line Duffel Reviews

We applaud Paravel for its wide offerings of sustainable recycled luggage made from upcycled plastic water bottles, vegan leather, recycled polycarbonate, and more. One reviewer says, "It's the perfect size duffel for a weekend trip. I was able to pack five outfits plus toiletries and a book and pajama pants. Quality is superb, the material is a thick canvas making it water repellent. And it got to my house in three days!"

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Paravel Main Line Duffle Reviews, $, available at Paravel

KAVU Manastash Mini Duffle Bag

Mini duffels travel well too. This 9.5" bag is great for hikes, quick packing, and sightseeing in style.

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KAVU KAVU Manastash Mini Duffle Bag, $, available at Urban Outfitters

Away The Everywhere Bag

The Everywhere Bag's waterproof nylon exterior, roomy interior, and thoughtful compartments were made to keep your belongings safe. With 431 reviews and a 4.9 out of 5-star rating, we'd say it's a sure bet for stress-free travels.

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Away The Everywhere Bag, $, available at Away

Ban.do Getaway Traveler Bag

Vacation isn't just a place, it's a state of mind. Next time you jet off, take Ban.do's funky and functional "Mental Vacation" nylon duffel. In addition to its vibrant design, this bag comes with detachable mesh interior pouches, a bottom compartment for shoes, and a concealed front pocket for valuables.

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ban.do Getaway Traveler Bag - Mental Vacation, $, available at ban.do

Monos Metro Duffel

This sleek Monos duffel is so smartly designed it saved on happy reviewer from checking a bag. She says, "It’s spacious allowing me to comfortably pack numerous outfits while also storing my laptop. On top of that, I received numerous compliments and all of the pockets and features kept me organized." (Did we mention the front pocket is removable?)

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Monos Metro Duffel, $, available at Monos

Dooney & Bourke Getaway Cabriolet Medium Duffle

On the outside, this bag flaunts a simple and classic design with waterproof Cabriolet cloth, cowhide leather trim, and handstitched handles. Open it up and you'll find its vibrant cotton-lined interior and three handy-dandy pockets. One reviewer notes, "Love all the pockets for passports, phones, and other travel documents."

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Dooney & Bourke Getaway Cabriolet Medium Duffle, $, available at Dooney & Bourke

Tory Sport Ripstop Nylon Color-Block Duffle Bag

Color-blocking, retro design, and lightweight materials make this designer duffel the perfect sporty travel companion. Some must-have features include (but are not limited to): a removable crossbody strap, shoe compartment, and its 2-in-1 convertible style.

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Tory Sport Ripstop Nylon Color-Block Duffle Bag, $, available at Tory Burch

Fjallraven Vardag 30L Duffle Bag

Like many brands on this list, Fjallraven is not known for its travel duffel (as opposed to its posture-restoring backpacks), but they are worthy of attention. This simple 30-liter bag is optimal for weekend getaways, gym commutes, and spontaneous road trips.

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Fjällräven Vardag 30L Duffle Bag, $, available at Urban Outfitters

Madewell Essential Overnight Bag

This stylish overnight bag is estimated to ship by early October, but according to reviews, it's worth the wait. One happy customer says, "The leather is buttery and soft and the inside is super roomy... [I] plan on using this to bring a week full of clothes [and] I know I can fit it all. And, an extra bonus is that there are metal gold footbeds at the bottom of the bag which isn’t listed in the description!"

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Madewell The Essential Overnight Bag in Leather, $, available at Madewell

The North Face Base Camp Duffel

In The North Face travel bags we trust. The medium Base Camp Duffel can be toted in hand or carried on one's back, is water-resistant, and according to one reviewer it's, "...a bomb-proof bag."

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The North Face Base Camp Duffel - M, $, available at The North Face

Dagne Dover Landon Carryall

It's big, it'll carry all your stuff, and it's guaranteed to fit in the overhead bin on your flight. The Landon Carryall also comes in a myriad of sizes ranging from an extra small handbag to this extra-large carry-on — aka, you can collect them all.

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Dagne Dover Landon Carryall Bag, $, available at Dagne Dover

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These Christian Streetwear Brands Mix Faith and Commerce

Deante Howard was only 13 years old when he decided to commit his life to Christianity. While recovering from an accident in which he had to get neck surgery, he started questioning the world around him, as he underwent a startling moment that challenged his belief that he’d always live to see another day. His grandma encouraged him to attend his local church with her regularly, and he became part of the youth ministry. One of favorite church traditions was about the clothes; on Sundays, he’d dress up every week to attend, a ritualistic aspect of the service he always enjoyed.

More than 10 years later, Deante’s faith still drives him. And so does his love of style, a tool he now uses to spread the Christian gospel through Etsy. In 2019, he launched his label Equris to spark conversations about Christianity, selling graffiti-inspired logo hoodies, T-shirts, sweatpants, and jackets. For Howard, the decision to go into streetwear came from seeing other Christian labels do “cliché, corny stuff” instead of pieces inspired by trends that he and his friends actually wanted to wear. “I told myself, I can make that,” he remembers. Using his background in graphic design and business, the Missouri native launched Equris. 

The Christian fashion industry is nothing new. Events like Christian Fashion Week, which held its last shows in 2015, have served as a platform for designers who wish to bridge the gap between style and faith. Meanwhile, designer labels like Givenchy, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Dior have long drawn inspiration from Christianity, particularly Catholicism, in their collections in both celebratory and subversive ways. The Costume Institute highlighted this relationship in its 2018 exhibition “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” with support from the Vatican itself. 

There’s also a thriving community of Christian e-commerce stores on marketplaces like Etsy evoking the kind of “cliché” merch Howard wanted to differentiate his brand from.  They use swirling calligraphy and friendly messages — “Jesus Loves You” — to evoke their soft and feminine message about faith, channeling the kind of T-shirt activism that’s also behind pink #girlboss merch. Like Howard, entrepreneurs behind these shops are using apparel to spread the gospel.

Yet the phenomenon of faith-based brands using codes from the streetwear world to grow a Christian community of people wearing their faith on their sleeve is relatively new, at least on a mass-market scale. Designers like Jerry Lorenzo of Fear of God have been pioneering Christian messaging through high-end streetwear brands for years, but now that same ethos has started to enter the closets of those for whom $700 sweatpants are unrealistic. On Instagram, the hashtag #christianstreetwear has generated over 22,000 posts, with people wearing T-shirts featuring Bible verses or #Blessed logos. These days, they’re not looking too different from mainstream streetwear brands who evoke spirituality as a tool to foster community and spread positivity. Just recently, Balenciaga created cross-bearing T-shirts for Kanye West’s Donda merch, proving the kind of cross-pollination that’s using codes from the secular world — much like West’s album — to the masses at the Mercedes Benz Stadium.  Howard shares West’s vision. While Christians may be the target customers for these clothes, Howard says that he doesn’t just focus on this community because “it’d be like preaching to the choir.” “It’s a tool to spread the gospel,” he says. 

Drew Urquhart shares a similar vision. As a nondenominational Christian who’s also quite private, he’s not the type of person who is comfortable approaching a stranger to inquire about their faith. Instead, he hopes his brand God The Father does the talking. “It’s ironic because now I talk about God every day, which is awesome,” he says, referring to the way his brand has allowed him to open up about his relationship with faith. Launched in 2019, God The Father is a Los Angeles-based streetwear brand that sells neutral-hued T-shirts, hoodies, and sweatshirts that could have easily been designed as merch for Kanye West’s Sunday Service. “We get DMs from people around the world who say their T-shirt helped start a conversation with their family about [faith],” says Urquhart. “Instead of saying, ‘Oh, have you heard about Jesus?’ it’s someone asking them about it.”

The collapse of social, political, and economic structures over the past 10 years, combined with the religious polarization that categorized Christianity in the United States as a politically  conservative belief system have led a large portion of millennials to abandon religion. Popular mainstream issues like increasing access to abortion and queer justice are reflective of Christianity’s aging ideology; in many ways, the streetwear world is also considered to be a movement representative of young, progressive people. According to a recent Gallup report, 47% of adults in the country belong to a church, synagogue, or mosque, dropping below 50% for the first time in 80 years. A 2019 study by Pew Research Center also found that millennials are now almost as likely to say they have no religion as they are to identify as Christian, with four in 10 people in this generation saying they have no religious affiliation. 

But for these entrepreneurs, it’s precisely this generational struggles that motivates them to seek streetwear as a tool of evangelization. A phenomenon born in New York City and Los Angeles, streetwear has always married narratives of personal ambitions, community building, struggle, especially in its inception in the 1980s and 1990s. Thanks to brands like Cross Colours and FUBU, streetwear has long linked clothes and social messaging, providing a space for people who want to make their beliefs undeniable to all. As a lifelong fan of streetwear, Howard says that those themes have long connected him to this type of fashion. And as a founder of a Christian streetwear brand, it’s his job to make people see the two are not so different. After all, personal struggle is what led him to belief in Christianity, and Equris is his way to build a community around it. “All of us [Christians] have the same calling, which is to go out there and make disciples,” he says. 

Tianna Jenkins, founder of lifestyle and fashion brand CoSigned x God, has a similar approach. Launched in July 2021, CoSigned x God is inspired by Jenkins’ work as an ordained minister and the daughter of a pastor. “We are for people who don’t know [God] and people who do know him, wherever they are in their relationship with [Christianity],” she says. As a founder, she’s trying to use social media and newsletters to foster a community around her brand, similar to those created by Black designers like Telfar Clemens and Pyer Moss’ Kerby Jean-Raymond. Her method? Weekly prayer-based newsletters, which she shares with subscribers alongside discount codes to her merchandise. Despite the commerce play, she says profit is not her main goal. “If you are anointed with the calling that you have, the money will come regardless,” she says. 

Materialism in modern Christianity has long been a controversial issue, with megachurch pastors often flaunting their wealth in the name of faith. While many are more used to seeing pastors in off-the-rack gray suits, a generation of preachers is giving brands like Yeezy, DSquared, Gucci, and Off-White their stamp of approval, despite the fact that the average pastor in the country makes between $28,000 and $44,000 per year. In 2019, the Instagram account @preachersnsneakers even started documenting the hefty price tags on the clothes worn by some pastors within Evangelical circles, like the leaders of Hillsong and Zoe Church. And while the book of Proverbs says “Whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow,” the New Testament portrays Jesus reprimanding people for turning the temple into a money-making venture. Many see the latter scene as a confirmation that commerce and faith don’t go together. 

But for these entrepreneurs, style and commerce are just tools to carry their message, and make some money along the way. As far as some are concerned, there doesn’t need to be a separation between the two. “The problem with money is the love of it,” says Howard. “But if this is a talent or a gift that I am working for, then, biblically, I should be paid for it.”

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