20 years back I carried a leather Coach messenger bag while at the Pentagon and it routinely had extra stuff in it. But back then no one inspected the contents of what you carried if you had the right badge. These days I wouldn't want to carry that stuff in and out daily. That said, a Coach bag would make for a very nice survival kit container, in a white collar executive environment.

Coach is some nice stuff, spendy, but Coach does stand behind their product. The stitching on the handle of mine gave way a few years ago and a local Coach retailer sent it in to be fixed. The same piece of leather came back looking like new, no charge. Looking at the current online catalog, my bag is not there.