Trove Launches B-Sides: Discounted Wallets With Minor Imperfections
The British wallet brand is selling slightly imperfect pieces at a reduced price rather than writing them off.
Trove, the English leather and elastic wallet brand whose minimalist wallets I have reviewed and been a fan of for some time, has quietly launched something worth knowing about. They are calling it B-Sides: a dedicated section of their website where slightly imperfect wallets are sold at a discounted price rather than being discarded. It sounds like a small thing, but I think it deserves more attention than it is likely to get.
What B-Sides Actually are
Trove makes their wallets by hand in England, and like any handcrafted product made in genuine volume, a small number of pieces inevitably come out of production with minor cosmetic issues. Light marks, small scuffs, minor stitching irregularities, or custom colour orders made to the wrong specification. None of these affect how the wallet functions. They are purely aesthetic, and in many cases barely visible at all. But they are not up to Trove’s first-line standard, so they have historically sat on a shelf rather than going out to customers.
B-Sides gathers all of those pieces in one place and sells them at a reduced price. The standard Trove Wallet retails at around $49.95, and the B-Sides versions come in at around $33.00, a discount of roughly a third. The wallets are otherwise identical in material and construction: full-grain Italian vegetable-tanned leather, high-quality Italian elastic, and the same three-section reversible design that makes the Trove one of the more practical slim wallets in its category.
Why This Actually Matters
Plenty of brands accumulate slightly imperfect stock. Most of them do one of two things: quietly sell it through clearance channels at full price without disclosing the issues, or write it off entirely. What Trove is doing here is neither of those. They are being transparent about what B-Sides are, pricing them accordingly, and giving buyers the choice.
That transparency is a direct reflection of quality control. You only end up with a meaningful stock of near-perfect rejects if your standards are high enough to flag them in the first place. A brand that does not care about quality would simply ship those wallets and say nothing. The existence of a B-Sides programme is, in its own quiet way, evidence that Trove takes its own quality seriously.
There is also a sustainability angle. Rather than discarding or destroying imperfect stock, Trove is giving those pieces a route to a customer who wants them. It is a low-waste approach that is consistent with the brand’s broader ethos around materials and production.
Are Trove B-Sides Worth Buying?
If you have been curious about the Trove Wallet but hesitated at the full price, B-Sides is a straightforward answer. The wallets are functional, the discount is real, and the imperfections are described as cosmetic only. For most buyers, a light mark or minor stitching irregularity on a wallet they are going to carry daily is not a meaningful concern. Leather wallets pick up marks in use anyway.
The B-Sides range also includes wallets from custom colour combinations that were made to the wrong specification by mistake, which means you occasionally get genuinely unique colourways that would not appear in the standard range at any price. That is a small bonus worth knowing about.
Stock in the B-Sides section will naturally vary and is unlikely to be replenished in any predictable pattern, so if something catches your eye it is worth acting on it rather than waiting.
The full B-Sides range is available by clicking the link below. For my full review of the standard Trove Wallet, you can read it on this site.
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