15" x 16", 5" shoulder drop Brand new condition!!! Notes from the Curator The Garden Party made its début in 1964, originally conceived to hold gardening tools—an origin that neatly accounts for its open top, squared-off base, and sturdy, trapezoid-flanked silhouette. While most houses in that era still prized ornamentation and structure, Hermès turned utility itself into luxury. Buffalo leather is both soft and supple, and remarkably malleable while also being durable; Hermès chose it for the Garden Party line precisely because scratches and tears are nearly unlikely. Here that thick, water-resistant hide frames the natural toile canvas body in chocolate brown, a combination that embodies the line's entire premise: city refinement held in countryside practicality. The Clou de Selle snap closures on each side allow the owner to cinch the tote narrower or expand it for additional capacity, transforming the bag's footprint with a twist of equestrian hardware. Dated 2004, this example captures the canvas-and-leather Garden Party at the height of its understated reign, before all-leather versions proliferated and the model fractured into a dozen sizes—a moment when the 37 was still called a 36 and still read unmistakably as the house's workhorse tote, anonymous by intent and elegant in function.