The Hidee bag is about to go big

When Cork-born, London-based accountant Caoilionn Hurley found that even her Prada bag couldn’t hold her heels on her morning commute, she was determined to find a way to ditch the canvas hold-all she carried each day for her shoes.

Handbag manufacturers told her it couldn’t be done, so she went to the London College of Fashion — and designed her very own high-end leather bag with a separate compartment for her shoes.

FIRST there was the Prada bag, a gift from her sons. It irritated her that such a high-end, top-notch bag still left her with nowhere to stow her heels on her morning commute. And she wasn’t alone. Everywhere Caoilionn Hurley looked — on the tubes, on nights out, at the races — there were women with runners or flats on their feet, with a canvas hold-all to carry their heels. The ones who did stash everything loose in one huge bag spent their time rummaging for keys or wallets.