Load it up and those three pockets across the front keep whatever you need first from ending up at the bottom under everything else. The canvas is heavy and natural, with blue ticking stripe dividing the pockets, banding the bottom, and running the whole length of both straps. And our MP monogram is right there in the middle, embroidered in soft blue inside a ring of little stitched flowers! The straps go over a shoulder, X-stitched where they meet the bag, right where a full tote pulls hardest.